Suzanne Anker

Suzanne Anker is a visual artist (see www.geneculture.org) and theorist working with the iconography of genetics and its biotechnological applications. In 1994, she curated the first exhibition devoted exclusively to the intersection of art and genetics, Gene Culture: Molecular Metaphor in Visual Art, at Fordham University in NYC. She is a guest curator at the New York Academy of Sciences, where she has organized exhibitions such as From Code to Commodity: Genetics and Visual Art and Reprotech: Building Better Babies? She has hosted and participated in numerous panel discussions such as Monkey Business: Art and Science at the Millennium., Sugar Daddy: The Genetics of Oedipus, as well as The New Grotesque, co-hosted with the Museum of Modern Art in NYC. Her book, The Molecular Gaze: Art in the Genetic Age, co-authored with the late Dorothy Nelkin, was published in 2004 by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press. She currently teaches art history and theory at the School of Visual Arts in NYC, where she is Chair of the Art History Department and editor of ArtLab23, its on-line journal (see http://www.artlab23.net). In addition, she currently is host of the Bio-Blurb Show on WPS1Art Radio, where discussions of “sci-art” are broadcast and archived (see www.wps1.org)

http://www.geneculture.org/