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Discover fantastical narratives and the covert, unseen forces at work in the world through Suzanne Treister’s explorations of society’s relationship to technology.

Suzanne Treister is a pioneer in digital media and early internet art, and her work uses unconventional ideas to reveal the links between power, identity and knowledge. The artist's uses various media, including the internet, video, digital technologies, photography, drawing and watercolour. An ongoing focus of her expansive projects is the relationship between new technologies, society, alternative belief systems and the potential futures of humanity.

Suzanne Treister (b. 1958) studied at St Martin’s School of Art and Chelsea College of Art and Design and currently lives and works in London. Recent exhibitions include solo and group shows at the Tate Modern, London, UK; Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Madrid, Spain; Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz, France; The Ryder, Madrid, Spain; and Annely Juda Fine Art, London, UK; among others. Treister’s work is held in private and public collections including Tate Britain, London, UK; Science Museum, London, UK; Centre Pompidou, Paris, France; Muzeum Sztuki, Łódź, Poland; and Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna, Austria. Treister's work, HFT The Gardener, 2015, was recently on view as part of Spiritual Technology at the High Line, New York, NY. Her fourth solo exhibition with the gallery, Kabbalistic Futurism, was on view in Fall 2023.

Exhibited Works

Exhibited Works Thumbnails
Suzanne Treister
SURVIVOR (F)/One Million Years Before And After The Internet, 2016-19
oil on canvas
83 7/8 x 59 7/8 ins.
213 x 152 cm

Suzanne Treister
SURVIVOR (F)/One Million Years Before And After The Internet, 2016-19
oil on canvas
83 7/8 x 59 7/8 ins.
213 x 152 cm

Suzanne Treister
Venus on TV on the Moon, 1986
oil on canvas
10 x 10 ins.
25.4 x 25.4 cm

Suzanne Treister
Venus on TV on the Moon, 1986
oil on canvas
10 x 10 ins.
25.4 x 25.4 cm

Suzanne Treister
TECHNOSHAMANIC SYSTEMS/Quantumspacecity 01, 2023
oil on canvas
83 9/10 × 59 4/5 ins.
213 × 152 cm

Suzanne Treister
TECHNOSHAMANIC SYSTEMS/Quantumspacecity 01, 2023
oil on canvas
83 9/10 × 59 4/5 ins.
213 × 152 cm

Suzanne Treister
HEXEN 5.0/Tarot/Ten of Pentacles – Redeployment of Everyone to Restore the Planet, 2023-24
digital print
16 1/2 x 11 7/10 ins.
42 x 29.7 cm

Suzanne Treister
HEXEN 5.0/Tarot/Ten of Pentacles – Redeployment of Everyone to Restore the Planet, 2023-24
digital print
16 1/2 x 11 7/10 ins.
42 x 29.7 cm

Suzanne Treister
SOFTWARE/Sacred Vision, 1993-4
oil paint on cardboard box and floppy disk
8.6 x 6.3 x 1.6 ins.
22.5 x 16 x 4 cm

Suzanne Treister
SOFTWARE/Sacred Vision, 1993-4
oil paint on cardboard box and floppy disk
8.6 x 6.3 x 1.6 ins.
22.5 x 16 x 4 cm

Suzanne Treister
HEXEN 2.0/Historical Diagrams/From ARPANET to DARWARS via the Internet, 2009-11
ink and watercolour on paper, digital print
dims variable

Suzanne Treister
HEXEN 2.0/Historical Diagrams/From ARPANET to DARWARS via the Internet, 2009-11
ink and watercolour on paper, digital print
dims variable

Suzanne Treister
SURVIVOR (F)/One Million Years Before And After The Internet, 2016-19
oil on canvas
83 7/8 x 59 7/8 ins.
213 x 152 cm

Suzanne Treister
SURVIVOR (F)/One Million Years Before And After The Internet, 2016-19
oil on canvas
83 7/8 x 59 7/8 ins.
213 x 152 cm

Suzanne Treister
Venus on TV on the Moon, 1986
oil on canvas
10 x 10 ins.
25.4 x 25.4 cm

Suzanne Treister
Venus on TV on the Moon, 1986
oil on canvas
10 x 10 ins.
25.4 x 25.4 cm

Suzanne Treister
TECHNOSHAMANIC SYSTEMS/Quantumspacecity 01, 2023
oil on canvas
83 9/10 × 59 4/5 ins.
213 × 152 cm

Suzanne Treister
TECHNOSHAMANIC SYSTEMS/Quantumspacecity 01, 2023
oil on canvas
83 9/10 × 59 4/5 ins.
213 × 152 cm

Suzanne Treister
HEXEN 5.0/Tarot/Ten of Pentacles – Redeployment of Everyone to Restore the Planet, 2023-24
digital print
16 1/2 x 11 7/10 ins.
42 x 29.7 cm

Suzanne Treister
HEXEN 5.0/Tarot/Ten of Pentacles – Redeployment of Everyone to Restore the Planet, 2023-24
digital print
16 1/2 x 11 7/10 ins.
42 x 29.7 cm

Suzanne Treister
SOFTWARE/Sacred Vision, 1993-4
oil paint on cardboard box and floppy disk
8.6 x 6.3 x 1.6 ins.
22.5 x 16 x 4 cm

Suzanne Treister
SOFTWARE/Sacred Vision, 1993-4
oil paint on cardboard box and floppy disk
8.6 x 6.3 x 1.6 ins.
22.5 x 16 x 4 cm

Suzanne Treister
HEXEN 2.0/Historical Diagrams/From ARPANET to DARWARS via the Internet, 2009-11
ink and watercolour on paper, digital print
dims variable

Suzanne Treister
HEXEN 2.0/Historical Diagrams/From ARPANET to DARWARS via the Internet, 2009-11
ink and watercolour on paper, digital print
dims variable