Vivian Suter
Untitled, n.d.
Mixed media on canvas
Courtesy of the Artist and Gaga, Mexico City; Gladstone, New York; Karma International, Basel; and Proyectos Ultravioleta,
Guatemala City
Vivian Suter (Buenos Aires, 1949) is a painter based in Lake Atitlán in Guatemala. She has participated in documenta 14 in Athens, Greece and Kassel, Germany; the 11th Taipei Biennial at the Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan; Desert X 2021, Coachella Valley, California; and the 31° Bienal de São Paulo, Brazil. Her upcoming solo shows include a retrospective at Kunstmuseum Luzern, Luzern (November, and Secession, Vienna (April, 2022), amongst others. And has had solo shows at Brücke Museum, Berlin; Tate, Liverpool; Camden Art Centre, London; En Plein Air, High Line, NY; MUDAM Luxembourg, Luxemburg; The Art Institute, Chicago; The Power Plant, Toronto; Museo El Eco, Mexico City; The Jewish Museum, NY; Kunsthalle Basel, Basel; The Mistake Room, Los Angeles; and currently has a solo at Palacio de Velázquez, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, which runs through May 2022.
In 2021, she was awarded the Prix Meret Oppenheim / Swiss Grand Award for Art. Her work is in the permanent collections including Tate, UK; the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, NY; The Art Institute, Chicago; MCA Chicago, Chicago; The Jewish Museum, NY; MoMA Warsaw, Warsaw; CAPC Bordeaux, Bordeaux; and MUDAM Luxembourg, and others.