Rachel
Sussman is a contemporary artist based in Brooklyn. For nearly a decade, she's
been developing the critically acclaimed project “The Oldest Living
Things in the World,” for which she researches, works with biologists,
and travels all over the world to photograph continuously living organisms
2000 years old and older. Stewart Brand calls her work "the missing science
of biological longevity." She’s received numerous awards, and spoken
at TED, The Long Now Foundation, and UCLA, amongst others, and appeared on
the air on CNN, BBC, and various public radio programs. Her exhibition record
spans more than a decade in museums and galleries in the US and Europe, and
her photographs and writing have been featured on global media outlets including
The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, and NPR’s Picture
Show. Jerry Saltz says of her work: “These stately pictures quiet the
soul…Sussman brings you to the place where science, beauty, and eternity
meet.” Her first book is due out in Spring 2014 from the University
of Chicago Press.
