Suzanne Anker
Bio:
Suzanne Anker is an artist, theorist, and chair of the BFA program at the School of Visual Arts in New York, where she works at the intersection of art and the biological sciences. She has been a guest curator at the New York Academy of Sciences and the author of many texts concerning the implications of the bio-technological revolution on culture and society. She hosted the “Bio-Blurb Show” on WPS1 art radio, organized with the Museum of Modern Art in New York. As an artist, she has exhibited nationally and internationally, and her work can be found in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art Tokyo, the Smithsonian Institute, the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, and the Cleveland Museum of Art. She is co-author of The Molecular Gaze: Art in the Genetic Age, an exploration of the ethical questions posed by current scientific advances.
