Suzanne Treister
Suzanne Treister is the creator of the Hexen 5.0 Tarot. She is a painter and mult-media artist who creates works about emerging technologies, developing fictional worlds and international collaborative organisations.
Website: http://www.suzannetreister.net
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Suzanne Treister (b.1958 London UK) studied at St Martin’s School of Art, London (1978-1981) and Chelsea College of Art and Design, London (1981-1982) and is based in London and the French Pyrenees, having lived in Australia, New York and Berlin. Initially recognized in the 1980s as a painter, she became a pioneer in the digital/new media/web based field from the beginning of the 1990s, making work about emerging technologies, developing fictional worlds and international collaborative organisations. Utilising various media, including video, the internet, interactive technologies, photography, drawing and watercolour, Treister’s work has engaged with eccentric narratives and unconventional bodies of research to reveal structures that bind power, identity and knowledge. Often spanning several years, her projects comprise fantastic reinterpretations of given taxonomies and histories that examine the existence of covert forces at work in the world. An ongoing focus of her work is the relationship between new technologies, society, alternative belief systems and the potential futures of humanity.
Recent solo and group exhibitions include:
5th Industrial Art Biennial, Croatia; 13th Seoul Mediacity Biennale, Korea; The Warburg Institute, London (2025); Tate Modern, London; Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna; United Nations, New York (2024); 14th Shanghai Biennale; Museion Bolzano, Italy; Centre Pompidou-Metz; Helsinki Biennial, Finland; ARoS Kunstmuseum, Denmark; P.P.O.W. Gallery, New York (2023-4), High Line, New York; Plateforme 10, Lausanne; Hayward Gallery Touring; Albertinum, Dresden; Somerset House, London; Palace of Culture and Science, Warsaw (2022) 7th Athens Biennale, Greece; Muzeum Sztuki, Lodz, Poland; 34th Ljubljana Biennale of Graphic Arts; Kunstmuseum Appenzell, Switzerland (2021); Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt; Yerevan Biennial, Armenia (2020); Istanbul Biennial, Turkey; Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden (2019); Busan Biennale, Korea; CAPC, Bordeaux, France; EKKM, Tallinn, Estonia; CCCB, Barcelona; ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany (2018); IMMA, Dublin; Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin; Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Canada (2017); Liverpool Biennial, UK; V&A Museum, London; Bildmuseet, Umea, Sweden; Bard Hessel Museum, NY, USA (2016); ICA, London, England; Centre Pompidou, Paris
Commissions and Awards include:
Warburg Assetto Fellowship (2025); Digital Commission, Serpentine Galleries, London, England (2019); COLLIDE International Award, CERN Geneva/FACT UK (2018); The Spaceships of Bordeaux, Public art project – Commande artistique Garonne, Bordeaux, France (2013-21)
Published monographs include:
‘Suzanne Treister: From Survivor (F) To The Escapist BHST (Black Hole Spacetime)’, Serpentine Galleries and Koenig Books, London, 2019
‘HFT The Gardener’ Black Dog Publishing, London, 2016
‘HEXEN 2.0’ Black Dog Publishing, London, 2012
‘HEXEN 2.0 Tarot’ Black Dog Publishing, London, 2012
(re-published 2024 by cosmogenesis)
‘NATO The Military Codification System for the Ordering of Everything in the World’, Black Dog Publishing, London, 2008.
‘Hexen 2039 – new military-occult technologies for psychological warfare’, Black Dog Publishing, London 2006.
‘No Other Symptoms – Time Travelling with Rosalind Brodsky’ CD ROM with 124 page colour hardback book. Published by Black Dog Publishing, London 1999.