苏珊·安卡尔，出生于美国纽约，现工作生活于纽约，是一位视觉艺术家和理论家，致力于艺术与生物科学的交叠领域。她的艺术实践探究了自然在21世纪如何被改变。她聚焦于基因学、气候变化、物种灭绝和毒性降解，呼吁关注生命之美以及对“自然中‘树根纠缠的河岸（tangled bank）’启发性思考的必要性。”安卡尔经常运用“已定义和现有的材料”，如植物标本、医学博物馆展示物、实验仪器、显微图像和地质标本。她使用各类媒介，从数字雕塑和装置到大型摄影，再到LED灯下生长的植物。
她的作品在国内外美术馆和画廊展出，包括埃弗森艺术美术馆（锡拉丘兹，纽约州）、大田双年展（韩国）、卡尔斯鲁厄媒体艺术中心|ZKM（德国）、沃克艺术中心（明尼阿波利斯，明尼苏达州）、 史密森尼学院（华盛顿特区）、菲利普斯收藏馆（华盛顿特区）、PS1博物馆（纽约，纽约州）、J. Paul Getty美术馆（洛杉矶，加利福尼亚州）、查理特柏林医学史博物馆（德国）、文化调查中心（柏林，德国）、佩拉美术馆（伊斯坦布尔，土耳其）、现代艺术美术馆（京都，日本）以及卡塔赫纳德印第亚斯当代艺术国际双年展（哥伦比亚）。
Suzanne Anker, born in New York and currently lives and works in New York, is a visual artist and theorist working at the intersection of art and the biological sciences. Her practice investigates the ways in which nature is being altered in the 21st century. Concerned with genetics, climate change, species extinction and toxic degradation, she calls attention to the beauty of life and the “necessity for enlightened thinking about nature’s ‘tangled bank’.” Anker frequently works with “pre-defined and found materials” botanical specimens, medical museum artifacts, laboratory apparatus, microscopic images and geological specimens. She works in a variety of mediums ranging from digital sculpture and installation to large-scale photography to plants grown by LED lights.
Her work has been shown both nationally and internationally in museums and galleries including the Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY; Daejeon Biennale, Korea; ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; the Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D.C.; the Phillips Collection, Washington, DC; P.S.1 Museum, New York, NY; J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA; the Berliner Medizinhistorisches Museum der Charité, Berlin, Germany; the Center for Cultural Inquiry, Berlin, Germany; the Pera Museum, Istanbul, Turkey; the Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan; and the International Biennial of Contemporary Art of Cartagena de Indias, Colombia.
