Suzanne Anker

Suzanne Anker is a visual artist and theorist working at the intersection of art and the biological sciences. Her practice investigates the ways in which nature is being altered in the 21st century. Concerned with genetics, climate change, species extinction and the non-human other, she calls attention to the beauty of life and the “necessity for enlightened thinking about nature’s ‘tangled bank’.” Chairing SVA’s Fine Arts Department in NYC since 2005, Ms. Anker continues to interweave traditional and experimental media in her department’s digital initiative and the SVA Bio Art Lab. Her work has been shown both nationally and internationally in museums and galleries. Her exhibitions have been the subject of reviews and articles in the New York Times, Artforum, Art in America, Flash Art, the Brooklyn Rail, Hyperallergic, and Nature among others.