Suzanne Anker is a visual artist and theoretician working with genetic imagery. Her work has been shown both nationally and internationally in museums and galleries including the Walker Art Center, the Smithsonian Institute, the Philips Collection, P.S.1 Museum, the Stadkunst in Koln, and the Museum of Modern Art in Japan. In 2001, her work will be featured at the Getty Museum.

Her writings have appeared in Art Journal, Teme Celeste, M/E/A/N/I/N/G and Leonardo . She has hosted and participated in numerous panel discussions such as Monkey Business: Art and Science at the Millennium, and Sugar Daddy: The Genetics of Oedipus. She has been visiting artist and scholar at Yale University, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Washington University in St. Louis. In 1994, she curated Gene Culture: Molecular Metaphor in Contemporary Art at Fordham University, the first exhibition devoted entirely to the intersection of art and genetics. She currently teaches art history and theory at the School of Visual Arts where she is chair. Suzanne Anker is represented by Universal Concepts Unlimited, 504 W. 24th St, New York, NY, 10012.