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Erika Suderburg was born in 1959 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She is a contemporary artist and writer, who creates visual, video, and installation art.

Education
From 1975-77, Suderburg attended The North Carolina School of the Arts, Design and Production. Afterwards, she attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill briefly, then earned her BFA at Minneapolis College of Art and Design in 1981. In 1984, she received her MFA degree from the University of California, San Diego.

Career
Towards the beginning of her career, Suderburg experimented with dance and performance art. Her interest in west coast film drew her from the midwest to San Diego and later to Los Angeles. Inspired by California's diverse terrain, she began to incorporate aerial views into her films, and topography became a recurring theme in her work. Suderburg's videos are interactive and experimental; they engage the viewer rather than absorb them. For instance, in her short film Strip, (2006) the camera pans rapidly over the lines of a painting, animating the still canvas with jarring movements. Rather than writing out a script, Suderburg collects footage and still images, then pieces them together. Her feature-length study of empires, Decline and Fall, (2007), is one such video collage. Juxtaposing footage of bombings, aerial surveillance, and protests, it draws meaning from a variety of different sources.

Suderburg has taught at Otis College of Art and Design, the California Institute of the Arts, and Pasadena's Art Center College of Design. She is currently a professor at the University of California, Riverside.

Publications
Suderburg is the editor of Space, Site, Intervention: Situating Installation Art, (2000), a selection of essays that broadened the definition of installation art in the 21st century. She is also the co-editor of Resolutions: Contemporary Video Practices (1996) and Resolutions 3: Global Networks of Video (2012). Resolutions: Contemporary Video Practices brings together critical writings that address the role of independent video in a wide array of countries and cultures. It examines new complications in the medium's site-specificity, given the increase of video sharing and distribution outside the movie theater setting.

Exhibitions
Suderburg's work was chosen for the Fukai International Video Biennale in Japan and also the 2009 La Biennale de Montréal in Canada. Her films have been screened internationally in numerous locations, including New York, California, Japan, Korea, and Europe. She has also had a large number of solo and group exhibitions. Her work has been featured at the California Museum of Photography and many schools, including the School of the Visual Arts in New York and USC School of Cinema and Television. In 2012, two of her feature films, Somatography (2000) and Decline and Fall (2007) were screened as part of the Post Pacific Standard Time exhibition at the UCR Sweeney Art Gallery.