Artista

Rafael Lozano-Hemmer

1967 en Ciudad de México, Distrito Federal, México

Datos generales
Algoritmo AI

Residencia:

Reside en Montreal, Quebec, Canadá

Profesionales que le han comisariado:

Alejandra Labastida en:

Pseudomatismos, 2015

Cecilia Andersson en:

A Draft of Shadows, 2014

Cuauhtémoc Medina González en:

Caudales, 2022
La arena fuera del reloj. Memorial a las víctimas de COVID-19, 2020

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Premios ganados:

XII Premio ARCOmadrid/Beep de Arte Electrónico
Premios Ciudad de México 2016

Ferias en las que participa con OBRA :

ARCOmadrid 2024
ZONAMACO 24
Untitled Art Miami 2023

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Galerías y otras organizaciones que le representan:

Bitforms

Max Estrella

Pace Gallery

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Organizaciones con obra:

.NewArt { collection;} (ex- Beep Collection)

21c Museum Hotels

21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art

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Profesionales con obra:

Andreu Rodríguez Valveny

Emilio Pi

Actividad vigente:

No hay actividad VIGENTE

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Etiquetas:

Arte contemporáneo Arte de los nuevos medios Arte electrónica Arte iberoamericano Arte Interactivo Arte sonoro Instalacion Video arte

Enlaces oficiales:

Web

Descripción del Artista

Rafael Lozano-Hemmer was born in Mexico City in 1967. In 1989 he received a B.Sc. in Physical Chemistry from Concordia University in Montréal, Canada. Electronic artist, develops interactive installations that are at the intersection of architecture and performance art. His main interest is in creating platforms for public participation, by perverting technologies such as robotics, computerized surveillance or telematic networks. Inspired by phantasmagoria, carnival and animatronics, his light and shadow works are "antimonuments for alien agency". His large-scale interactive installations have been commissioned for events such as the Millennium Celebrations in Mexico City (1999), the Cultural Capital of Europe in Rotterdam (2001), the UN World Summit of Cities in Lyon (2003), the opening of the YCAM Center in Japan (2003), the Expansion of the European Union in Dublin (2004), the memorial for the Tlatelolco Student Massacre in Mexico City (2008), the Winter Olympics in Vancouver (2010), and the pre-opening exhibition ... of the Guggenheim in Abu Dhabi (2015). Recently the subject of solo exhibitions at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the MUAC Museum in Mexico City, and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney, he was the first artist to officially represent Mexico at the Venice Biennale with a solo exhibition at Palazzo Soranzo Van Axel in 2007. He has also shown at Art Biennials and Triennials in Havana, Istanbul, Kochi, Liverpool, Montréal, Moscow, New Orleans, Seville, Seoul, Shanghai, Singapore and Sydney. Collections holding his work include the MoMA in New York, Tate in London, AGO in Toronto, CIFO in Miami, Jumex in Mexico City, DAROS in Zurich, Borusan Contemporary in Istanbul, MUAC in Mexico City, 21st Century Museum of Art in Kanazawa, MAG in Manchester, MUSAC in Leon, MONA in Hobart, ZKM in Karlsruhe, MAC in Montréal and SAM in Singapore, among others. He has received two BAFTA British Academy Awards for Interactive Art in London, a Golden Nica at the Prix Ars Electronica in Austria, "Artist of the year" Rave Award from Wired Magazine, a Rockefeller fellowship, the Trophée des Lumières in Lyon, an International Bauhaus Award in Dessau, the title of Compagnon des Arts et des Lettres du Québec in Quebec, and the Governor General's Award in Canada. He has lectured at Goldsmiths college, the Bartlett school, Princeton, Harvard, UC Berkeley, Cooper Union, USC, MIT MediaLab, Guggenheim Museum, LA MOCA, Netherlands Architecture Institute, Cornell, UPenn, SCAD, Danish Architecture Cente, CCA in Montreal, ICA in London and the Art Institute of Chicago.