Photo by Ewa Harabasz
Krzysztof Wodiczko
Born 1943 in Warsaw, Poland.
Lives and works in New York City, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Warsaw, Poland.
Krzysztof Wodiczko is renowned for his large-scale slide and video projections on architectural facades and monuments. He has realized more than 90 such public projections in Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, England, Germany, Holland, Northern Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Poland, Spain, Switzerland, and the United States.
Since the late 1980s, his projections have involved the active participation of marginalized and estranged city residents.
Simultaneously, and also internationally, he has been designing and implementing a series of nomadic instruments, vehicles and other cultural equipment with the homeless, immigrants, alienated youth, war veterans and other operators for their survival, communication and expression in the public space
Since 1985, he has held many major retrospectives at such institutions as the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Museum Sztuki, Lodz; Fundacio Tapies, Barcelona; Wadsworth Athenaeum, Hartford CT; La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego; Contemporary Art Center, Warsaw; the Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw; DOX contemporart Art Center, Prague; Bunkier Sztuki Art Center, Krakow, Poland; List Visual Arts Center MIT, Boston, USA; Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan; Muzeum Sztuki Lodz, Poland; and in FACT in Liverpool, as a part of Liverpool Biennale opening in June 2016.
Krzysztof Wodiczko's work has been exhibited in Documenta (twice), Paris Biennale, Sydney Biennale, Lyon Biennale, Venice Biennale (twice) Architectural Venice Biennale (International Pavillion), Whitney Biennial, Yokohama Triennale, International Center for Photography Triennale in New York, Montreal Biennale (2014) and at Magiciens de la Terre and in many other international art festivals and exhibitions.
He received the Hiroshima Art Prize "for his contribution as an international artist to the world peace", and represented Poland and Canada in Venice Biennale (Canadian Pavillion and Polish Pavilions).
He is also recipient of Skowhegan Medal for Sculpture, the Georgy Kepes Award, MIT, the Katarzyna Kobro Prize, and "Gloria Artis" Golden Medal from Polish Ministry of Culture.
Krzysztof Wodiczko is a former Director of the Center for Advanced Visual Studies and the head of Interrogative Design Group at MIT and since 2010 is a Professor and a coordinator of Art, Design and the Public Domain, a postgraduate (MDes) concentration at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University.
He was teaching at Warsaw School of Social Psychology (SWPS), and since 2013 is a visiting Professor at the Media Arts Department of Academy of Fine Arts, Warsaw.
Before beginning his full time work work at MIT (1992) and at Harvard (2010), Krzysztof Wodiczko was holding full time academic positions in such institutions as the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax NS (intermedia art) New York Institute of Technology (history of modern art and basic design) , University of Hartford CT (photography), Cal Arts, California (photography and public art) Ecole superieure nationale des beaux arts Paris (Atelier focusing on critical art and public space). He also taught on part time basis at Ontario College of Art (industrial design), Cornell Universty (public art), the Cooper Union (public sculpture). Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw (Basic Design), Warsaw’s Politechnique (Industrial Design) and Trent University’s Cultural Studies, Peterborough, Ontario (history and theory of the artistic avant-garde).
His works are part of following public and private collections:
• Art Bank, Ottawa, Canada • Centre Pompidou, Paris • Chase Manhattan Bank, New York, U.S.A. • Contemporary Art Center, Warsaw, Poland • Galeria Foksal, Warsaw, Poland • Fonds National d’Art et de Culture, Ministère de la Culture, Paris • Fonds Régional d’Art et de Culture d’Île de France • Ministère de la Culture, Paris • Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona • Hiroshima City Museum Of Contemporary Art • Israel Museum, Jerusalem • The Jewish Museum, New York • Kresge Art Museum, East Lansing, MI, U.S.A. • The Linc Group, Chicago, IL, U.S.A. • Museum Sztuki, Łódź, Poland • Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA • Musée d’Art Contemporain de Lyon, France • Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain • Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, Poland • Contemporary Art Center Warsaw • National Gallery, Ottawa • National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto,Japan • New Museum of Contemporary Art, NewYork • Queensland Art Gallery, South Brisbane, Australia • Wadsworth Athenaeum, Hartford, CT, U.S.A. • Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, U.S.A. • Fundacja Signum, Poznań, Poland • The Silverstein Collection, Detroit, MI, U.S.A. •
Among many books and academic journals his essays and projects were published in October, AA Files, Art in Theory, Design Culture Reader, Academy X: Lessons in Art + Life in 2015, and Transformative Avantgarde and Other Wirings to be published winter 2016.
Among most important, authored by Krzysztof Wodiczko, books are a collection of his writings titled Critical Vehicles published by MIT Press (1999), a comprehensive monograph of his work titled Krzysztof Wodiczko published by Black Dog, London (2012). Abolition of War (2013) was also published in expanded Polish edition Obalenie Wojen (MOCAK) and its new French edition is in preparation.
His new book of collected writing titled The Transformative Avant-Garde will be published this fall by the same publisher.
Krzysztof Wodiczko’s work is being presented as a part of internationally distributed PBS television series Art 21 and in a DVD, as a part of the book publication Art in the Twenty-First Century.
He received Master degree in Fine Arts, (With Distinction) in Interior Architecture and Industrial Design from Academy of Fine Arts Warsaw (1968)
He has a Doctoral Degree in Media Arts from Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw (2013) and doctorats Honoris Causa from the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznan, Poland (2008) and from Maine School of Art (2007)
Self-Portrait
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
1968
Sound Performance (with Szábolcs Esztényi), Art and Research Unit, Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw
1970
Just Radio Transistors (with Szábolcs Esztényi), Gallery 10, Warsaw
1972
Passage, Współczesna Gallery, Warsaw Single Work Exhibition (with Włodzimierz Borowski and Jan Świdziński), Adres Gallery, Łódź, Poland (cat./bro.)
1973
Self-Portrait, Foksal PSP Gallery, Warsaw (cat.)
1974
Krzysztof Wodiczko, Akumulatory 2 Gallery, Poznań, Poland Drawing of a Stool, Foksal PSP Gallery, Warsaw (cat.)
1975
Show of Selected Works (with Carl Johnson), N.A.M.E. Gallery, Chicago Ladder, Akumulatory 2 Gallery, Poznań, Poland Krzysztof Wodiczko, Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, University of Illinois, Urbana (cat.) Drawings, Foksal PSP Gallery, Warsaw (cat.)
1976
Two Red-and-Blue Drawings and Three Black Drawings on the Walls, Ceiling and Corners of the Gallery, Akumulatory 2 Gallery, Poznań, Poland Drawings of Lines, Véhicule Art Gallery, Montreal (cat.) Drawings of Lines, A Space Gallery, Toronto Drawings of Lines, Galerie St. Petri, Lund, Sweden Line, Foksal PSP Gallery, Warsaw (cat.) Drawings, Illusions, Lines, 1974–1976, Shooting Gallery, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax Show and Conversation About Line, Akumulatory 2 Gallery, Poznań, Poland
1977
Lines on Culture, IDA Gallery, York University, Toronto Lines on Art, Eye Level Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia New Work [Lines on Culture], Hal Bromm Gallery, New York References, Foksal PSP Gallery, Warsaw (cat.) References, P.S. 1, Institute for Art and Urban Resources, Long Island City, New York Guidelines, Campus Gallery, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario Guidelines, A Space Gallery, Toronto
1978
Guidelines, Artists Space, New York New Work [Guidelines], Hal Bromm Gallery, New York Vehicle 2, Anna Leonowens Gallery II, Halifax, Nova Scotia
1979
Vehicle 3, Eye Level Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia Vehicles, Optica Gallery, Montreal; Eye Level Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia Vehicles, Gallery 76, Toronto Projection, Eye Level Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia (cat.) Slide Installation, Simon Fraser University Studio, Vancouver, British Columbia
1980
Hal Bromm Gallery (with Linda Francis), New York
1981
Artspace, Peterborough, Ontario Eye Level Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia (cat.) Franklin Furnace, New York Projections, Great George Street Gallery, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island
1982
Poetics of Authority: Krzysztof Wodiczko, Gallery of the South Australian College of Advanced Education, Adelaide (cat.)
1983
Hal Bromm Gallery, New York Ydessa Art Foundation, Toronto
1984
Hal Bromm Gallery, New York
1985
Public Projections, Canada House Cultural Centre Gallery, London Neuberger Museum, Purchase College, State University of New York, Purchase Orchard Gallery, Derry, Northern Ireland Public Projections, Anna Leonowens Gallery, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa, Ontario Ydessa Art Foundation, Toronto
1986
49th Parallel, Centre for Contemporary Canadian Art, New York Projections, Foksal Gallery, Warsaw
1987
Counter-Monuments: Krzysztof Wodiczko’s Public Projections, Hayden Gallery, List Visual Arts Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge (cat.) Real Estate Projection, Hal Bromm Gallery, New York
1988
Kunstgewerbeschule, Vienna La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, California; r. exh. Public Image: Homeless Projects by Krzysztof Wodiczko and Dennis Adams, The Institute for Contemporary Art, The Clocktower Gallery, New York (cat.) Works, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C. (cat.)
1989
Hal Bromm Gallery, New York Krzysztof Wodiczko, Matrix 103, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford Krzysztof Wodiczko: Projections, Galerie Gabrielle Maubrie, Paris New York City Tableaux: Tompkins Square, Exit Art, New York; trav. Painted Bride Art Center, Philadelphia; Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon; Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, D.C.; Wexner Center for the Arts, The University of Ohio, Columbus 1991 Galerie Gabrielle Maubrie, Paris Poliscar, Josh Baer Gallery, New York
1992
Galerie Gabrielle Maubrie, Paris Instruments, Projections, Vehicles, Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona; r. exh. (cat.) Krzysztof Wodiczko, Muzeum Sztuki, Łódź, Poland; r. exh. (cat.) Public Address: Krzysztof Wodiczko, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; trav. Contemporary Arts Museum Houston; r. exh. (cat.)
1993
Public Address: Krzysztof Wodiczko, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston
1995
Art Tower Mito, Mito, Japan Projection—Room with a View, Foksal Gallery, Warsaw Public Art, Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw; r. exh. (cat.) Projects & Public Projections, 1969–1995, De Appel Foundation, Amsterdam; r. exh. (cat.) Krzysztof Wodiczko, École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris; r. exh.
1996
Xenology: Immigrant Instruments, Galerie Lelong, New York
1997
Krzysztof Wodiczko: Porte-parole, FRAC, Nantes, France Krzysztof Wodiczko, Galerie Gabrielle Maubrie, Paris Xenology: Immigrant Instruments, University of North Texas Art Gallery, Denton
1999
4th Hiroshima Art Prize, Krzysztof Wodiczko, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima; r. exh. (cat.) Museum de Paviljoens, Almere, Netherlands
2000
The Hiroshima Projection, Galerie Lelong, New York
2001
Projection à Tijuana, Galerie Gabrielle Maubrie, Paris
2005
If You See Something . . . , Galerie Lelong, New York Monument Therapy, Zachęta – National Gallery of Art, Warsaw (cat.) Public Projections 1996–2004, Bunkier Sztuki, Kraków, Poland 2008 Vehicles—Instruments, Signum Foundation Gallery, Poznań, Poland (bro.) Imperial Castle, Signum Foundation, Poznań, Poland
2009
Guests, 53rd International Art Exhibition—La Biennale di Venezia, Polish Pavilion, Venice (cat.) . . . Out of Here: The Veterans Project, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston Self-Portrait 2, Profile Foundation Gallery, Warsaw Self-Portrait 2, Profile Foundation, Warsaw Self-Portrait 2, Bunkier Sztuki, Kraków, Poland 2010 Guests, Atlas Sztuki, Łódź, Poland (cat.)
2011
The Abolition of War, WORK Gallery, London Arc de Triomphe, World Institute for the Abolition of War, Galerie Gabrielle Maubrie, Paris (cat.) . . . Out of Here: The Veterans Project, Galerie Lelong, New York Art of the Public Domain, Państwowa Galeria Sztuki / PGS (State Gallery of Art), Sopot, Poland (cat.)
2012
Art of the Public Domain, Profile Foundation, Warsaw Arc de Triomphe, Institut Mondial pour l’Abolition de la Guerre, Galerie Espace Croix-Baragnon, Toulouse, France Art of the Public Domain, BWA Contemporary Art Gallery, Olsztyn, Poland
2013
Krzysztof Wodiczko: Passage 1969–1979, Profile Foundation, Warsaw (cat.) Art of Public Domain, Galeria Labirynt, Lublin, Poland (cat.) Krzysztof Wodiczko: Out/Inside(rs), DOX Centre for Contemporary Art, Prague; r. exh. (cat.)
2014
Peace (with Ewa Harabasz), Kuntsi Museum of Modern Art, Vaasa, Finland Blessures invisibles, Galerie Gabrielle Maubrie, Paris
2015
Krzysztof Wodiczko: On Behalf of Public Domain, Muzeum Sztuki, Łódź, Poland (cat.)
2016
Un-War and Positive Peace, Foundation for Art and Creative Technology / FACT, Liverpool, England 2017 Krzysztof Wodiczko: Instruments, Monuments, Projections, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, South Korea, Seoul
2018
Living Pictures, Profile Foundation, Warsaw
2019
Loro (Them), Parco Sempione, Teatro Continuo di Alberto Burri, More Art, Milan
2020
A House Divided . . . , Galerie Lelong, New York Przybysze (Incomers), Municipal Gallery Arsenał and Estrada Poznańska, Poznań, Poland
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
1965
XIII Bienal Internacional, São Paulo
1969
6ème Biennale de Paris, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris
1970
Show No. 1, Gallery 10, Warsaw Information—Imagination—Action, Współczesna Gallery, Warsaw
1971
Exhibition of Youth, Współczesna Gallery, Warsaw New Phenomena in Polish Art 1960–1970, Zielona Góra, Poland Art—Demography—2000, Rynek Gallery, Poznań, Poland
1972
Exhibition Osieki 1972, BWA (Bureau for Art Exhibitions), Koszalin, Poland
1974
Prospectiva 1974, University of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires
1975
9ème Biennale de Paris, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris 9ème Biennale de Paris à Nice, Nice
1976
Rooms, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, inaugural show, Long Island City, New York
1977
Works to Be Destroyed, West Side Highway, New York 22 Polnische Künstler aus dem Besitz des Muzeum Sztuki Lodz, Kunstverein, Cologne, West Germany documenta 6, Kassel, West Germany Art Words and Book Words, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia Moving, Hal Bromm Gallery, New York
1978
From the Private Point of View, Akumulatory 2 Gallery, Poznań, Poland Significant Line, Muzeum Sztuki, Łódź, Poland
1979
L’avanguardia polacca, 1910–1978, Muzeum Sztuki, Łódź, Poland; trav. Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome; Teatro del Falcone, Genoa; Museo Ca’ Pesaro, Venice Ten Polish Contemporary Artists from the Collection of the Muzeum Sztuki Lodz, Richard Demarco Gallery, Edinburgh 3rd Biennale of Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia Pittura-ambiente, Bologna, Italy
1980
The Summer Show, Hal Bromm Gallery, New York
1981
Extended Photography, 5th Internationale Biennale, Wiener Secession, Vienna
1982
4th Biennale of Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
1983
Künstler aus Kanada: Räume und Installationen, Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart Présences polonaises: L’art vivant autour du Musée de Lodz, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris Social Space, Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff, Alberta
1984
Body Politic, Tower Gallery, New York New York / Canada, 49th Parallel, Centre for Contemporary Canadian Art, New York Public Comments, Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle
1985
Aurora Borealis, Centre International d’Art Contemporain, Montreal Between Science and Fiction, XVIII Bienal Internacional, São Paulo Eastern Europeans in New York, El Bohio, New York Alles und noch viel mehr, Kunstmuseum Bern
1986
42nd International Art Exhibition—La Biennale di Venezia, Canadian Pavilion, Venice Expanding Commitment, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore Lumières: Perception—Projection, Centre International d’Art Contemporain, Montreal Nexus Center of Contemporary Art, Atlanta Real Property, City Without Walls, Newark Ten, Hal Bromm Gallery, New York The Interpretation of Architecture, YYZ Gallery, Toronto Wallworks, John Weber Gallery, New York
1987
Art Against AIDS, American Foundation for AIDS Research / AMFAR, New York documenta 8, Kassel, West Germany Immigrants and Refugees: Heroes or Villains, Exit Art, New York Liberty and Justice, The Alternative Museum and Group Material, New York Poetic Injury: The Surrealist Legacy in Postmodern Photography, The Alternative Museum, New York
1988
Contemporary Art, The Clocktower Gallery, New York Image World: Art and Media Culture, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York Les magiciens de la terre, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris Public Discourse, Real Artways, Hartford Temporary Public Art, Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York The Photography of Invention: American Pictures of the 1980s, National Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C. The Presence of Absence, Independent Curators Incorporated, New York Vision and Unity, Van Reekum Museum, Apeldoorn, Netherlands WaterWorks, R. C. Harris Water Filtration Plant, Toronto Wiener Festwochen, Vienna
1990
A New Necessity, First Tyne International, Newcastle upon Tyne, England Galerie Gabrielle Maubrie, Paris Illegal America, Exit Art, New York Life-Size: A Sense of the Real in Recent Art, Israel Museum, Jerusalem Rhetorical Image, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York The Decade Show, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York The Finitude of Freedom, DAAD, West Berlin
1991
Artists of Conscience: 16 Years of Social Political Commentary, The Alternative Museum, New York Devices, Josh Baer Gallery, New York El Sueño Imperativo / The Imperative Dream, Círculo de Bellas Artes, Madrid Night Lines, Centraal Museum, Utrecht, Netherlands Power: Its Myths and Mores in American Art, 1961–1991, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis The Art of Advocacy, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut The Hybrid State, Exit Art, New York The Political Arm, John Weber Gallery, New York The Projected Image, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
1992
Ateliers d’artistes de la ville de Marseille, Marseille Beyond Glory: Re-Presenting Terrorism, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore Muzeum Sztuki w Łodzi, 1931–1992: Collection—Documentation— Actualité, Musée d’Art Contemporain and Espace Lyonnais d’Art Contemporain / ELAC, Lyon, France Pour la suite du monde (For the Continuation of the Planet), Musée d’Art Contemporain de Montréal, Montreal The Power of the City, the City of Power, Whitney Museum of American Art, Downtown Branch, New York
1993
2ème Biennale d’Art Contemporain, Maison de Lyon, Lyon, France Arbeitskreis No. 2, Riverviews Danube Canal, Vienna At the Edge of Chaos: New Images of the World, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark Fireproof, Forum für Kunst Die Wandelhalle, Cologne, Germany In and out of Place: Contemporary Art and the American Social Landscape, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston In Transit, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York Polska, Art Tower Mito, Mito, Japan University of Washington Art Gallery, Seattle
1994
Camera Politics, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh Europa, Europa, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany Garbage, Real Art Ways, Hartford; through
1995
trav. Thread Waxing Space, New York La ville, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris Light into Art: From Video to Virtual Reality, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati Paris, ville lumière: Projets d’artistes pour l’espace public parisien, Fondation Electricité‚ organized by Direction des Affaires Culturelles de la Mairie de Paris, Paris Revir/Territory, Kulturhuset, Stockholm The Little House on the Prairie, Marc Jancou Gallery, London 1995 Transported Image, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco Ars ’95, Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki Contemporary Canadian Art: Beyond (National) Identities, Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo; trav. National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto; Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo Trialog, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin Where Is Abel, Thy Brother?, Zachęta – National Gallery of Art, Warsaw
1996
Horizons—14 Polish Contemporary Artists, Sonje Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul Living Units, Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, Guelph, Ontario NowHere (Walking and Thinking and Walking), Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark Project for Survival, National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto; trav. National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo The Luminous Image, The Alternative Museum, New York
1997
Art from Poland 1945–1995, Műcsarnok Szépművészeti Múzeum, Budapest (cat.) In Celebration of 20 Years: Photography, Hal Bromm Gallery, New York
1999
Comfort Zone: Furniture by Artists, PaineWebber Art Gallery, New York Conceptual Reflection in Polish Art: Experiences of Discourse 1965–1975, Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw (cat.) Let Freedom Ring, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston The Handle, Muzeum Sztuki, Łódź, Poland The Hanukkah Project: A Festival in Lights, The Jewish Museum, New York Traffic, Kulturabteilung, Graz, Austria
2000
L’autre moitié de l’Europe, Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume, Paris Landscape—Traffic—Syntax, InSITE 2000, San Diego The End: An Independent Vision of the History of Contemporary Art, Exit Art, New York 13th International Exhibition of Architecture—La Biennale di Venezia, International Pavilion, Venice Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
2001
Around 1988, P.S. 1, Long Island City, New York
2002
Arte/Cidade: Zona Leste, São Paulo Designs for the Real World, Generali Foundation, Vienna (cat.) Interrogative Design Group, Wolk Gallery, School of Architecture and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge Yokohama Triennale, Japan Foundation, Yokohama
2003
Aliens in America: Others in the USA, Lamont Gallery, Frederick R. Mayer Art Center, Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, New Hampshire Bright Lights Big City, David Zwirner Gallery, New York Global Priority, Herter Art Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst Kyoto Biennale, Kyoto Micro políticas: Arte y cotidianidad, Espai d’Art Contemporani de Castelló, Castelló, Spain Strangers, First ICP Triennial of Photography and Video, International Center of Photography, New York
2004
Ambulantes: Cultura portátil, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Seville, Spain Hilchot Shcheinim: Chapter B, Israeli Center for Visual Arts, Holon, Israel Fin des temps! L’histoire n’est plus: L’art polonais du 20e siècle, Hôtel des Arts, Toulon, France Laocoon Devoured, Artium, Basque Museum of Contemporary Art, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain The Freedom Salon, Deitch Projects, New York The Interventionists: Art in the Social Sphere, MASS MoCA, North Adams, Massachusetts (cat.) Watch What We Say, Schroeder Romero, New York
2005
City Art, Center for Architecture, New York Flashback: Revisiting the Art of the ’80s, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel Moving Parts: Forms of the Kinetic, Museum Tinguely, Basel Points of View: Landscape and Photography, Galerie Lelong, New York SlideShow, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore; trav. Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati (cat.) Touch Me: Design and Sensation, Victoria & Albert Museum, London (cat.) Toward the Future, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima
2006
Civic Performance, University Art Gallery, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York Col-lecció MACBA, Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona / MACBA, Barcelona Polyphony of Images, Consulate General of Poland, New York POZA, Real Art Ways, Hartford The Message Is the Medium, Jim Kempner Fine Art, New York Less: Alternative Living Strategies, Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea / PAC, Milan In Poland, That Is Where?, Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw
2007
MACBA at Frankfurter Kunstverein: Selection of Works from the Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt am Main Projections, Blackwood Gallery, University of Toronto at Mississauga, Mississauga, Ontario Open City: Tools for Public Action, Eyebeam, Brooklyn, New York Sleeping and Dreaming, Deutsches Hygiene-Museum, Dresden; through 2008 trav. Wellcome Trust, London
2008
Cold War Modern: Design 1945–1970, Victoria & Albert Museum, London Dialog: City, Denver (in conjunction with Democratic National Convention) Notes on Monumentality, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore Person of the Crowd: The Contemporary Art of Flânerie, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, State University of New York, Purchase
2009
Shadows: Works from the National Museums of Art, The National Art Center, Tokyo Essential Works, Galerie Gabrielle Maubrie, Paris Heaven Live, 2nd Athens Biennale, Athens This World & Nearer Ones, PLOT09, First Quadrennial of Public Art, organized by Creative Time, Governors Island, New York Unbuilt Roads, e-flux project space, New York Recent Acquisitions, Miami Art Museum, Miami Projections, Mackenzie Art Gallery, Toronto Home Sweet Home, Dorsky Gallery, Long Island City, New York
2010
Wrogościnność, Muzeum Sztuki, Łódź, Poland A Theory of Vision: A Review, Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw My Favored, National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto Works from the Collection, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw Memoria del Otro, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago
2011
Memoria del Otro, Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Wifredo Lam, Havana The Lucifer Effect: Encountering Evil, DOX Centre for Contemporary Art, Prague (cat.) GLOW, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands See Yourself Sensing: Redefining Human Perception, WORK Gallery, London Side by Side: Poland–Germany, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin (cat.) Particolare: Paths of Democracy, Signum Foundation, Palazzo Donà, Venice (cat.) Interventions in the Landscape, Galerie Lelong, New York History in Art, Museum of Contemporary Art / MOCAK, Kraków, Poland (cat.)
2012
Sounding the Body Electric: Experiments in Art and Music in Eastern Europe 1957–1984, Muzeum Sztuki, Łódź, Poland (cat.) Beyond Corrupted Eye: Akumulatory 2 Gallery, 1972–1990, Zachęta – National Gallery of Art, Warsaw (cat.) The Living Years: Art After 1989, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis Ruptures: Forms of Public Address, The Cooper Union School of Art, New York (cat.) Círculos/Circles, Galería Elba Benítez, Madrid This Will Have Been: Art, Love & Politics in the 1980s, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; through 2013 trav. Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston Newtopia: The State of Human Rights, Mechelen, Belgium Work, Power, and Control: Critical Episodes, Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona / MACBA, Barcelona NET—Art of Dialogue, Profile Foundation, Warsaw (cat.)
2013
The Desire for Freedom: Art in Europe Since 1945, Museum of Contemporary Art / MOCAK, Kraków, Poland In the Heart of the Country, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw Summer Exposure, Galerie Lelong, New York Lincoln Monument and Bowery Mission, Profile Foundation, Warsaw Art of the Public Domain, Academy of Fine Arts, Warsaw
2014
L’avenir, Biennale de Montréal, Montreal inSite: Cuatro ensayos de lo público, sobre otro escenario, Proyecto Siquieros / La Tallera, Cuernavaca, Mexico Re-Framing History, Galerie Lelong, New York Itinerant Belongings, Slought Foundation and Addams Hall, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Cosmos Calling! Art and Science in the Long Sixties, Zachęta – National Gallery of Art, Warsaw (cat.)
2015
They Risked Their Lives—Poles Who Saved Jews During the Holocaust, Museum of the History of Polish Jews, Warsaw What Is Social? Activity of the Ujazdowski Castle in Public Space (1988–2014), Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw War and Peace , Galeria Labirynt, Lublin, Poland
2016
Home Land Security, FOR-SITE Foundation, San Francisco MACBA Collection 31, Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona / MACBA, Barcelona Liverpool Biennale, Liverpool, England
2017
Second Life, Slought, Philadelphia Real Estate: Dwelling in Contemporary Art , Philip and Muriel Berman Museum of Art, Ursinus College, Collegeville, Pennsylvania Cultural Hijack, International School of Architecture, Prague Future Shock (with Rafael Lozano-Hemmer), SITE, Santa Fe, Santa Fe, New Mexico
2018
Brand New: Art and Commodity in the 1980s, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
2019
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Unstable Presence, Mus ée d’Art Contemporain de Montr éal / MAC, Montreal Head in the Cloud, Mus ée de la Civilisation, Quebec City, Quebec Future and the Arts: AI, Robotics, Cities, Life—How Humanity Will Live Tomorrow, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
Hirshhorn Museum
PUBLIC PROJECTIONS
1980
The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, University of Toronto, Toronto Maritime Mall, Halifax, Nova Scotia
1981
Confederation Centre for the Arts, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island Nova Scotia Power Corporation Plant, Halifax, Nova Scotia Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto City Hall, Peterborough, Ontario Empress Hotel, Peterborough, Ontario Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts School of Architecture, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia Scotia Towers, Halifax, Nova Scotia
1982
American Express Building, Sydney, Australia Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia Qantas International Centre, Sydney, Australia Mutual Life and Citizens Assurance Company Centre Tower, Sydney, Australia Festival Centre Complex, Adelaide, Australia War Memorial, Adelaide, Australia
1983
Federal Court House, London, Ontario Memorial Hall, Dayton, Ohio Hauptbahnhof, Stuttgart Jubilee Column (Jubiläumssäule), Schlossplatz, Stuttgart Bow Falls, Banff, Alberta Museum of Natural History, Regina, Saskatchewan Old Courthouse, Dayton, Ohio Sinclair Community College, Dayton, Ohio South African War Memorial, Toronto
1984
AT&T Long Lines Building, New York Astor Building / New Museum, New York Conference Center, The Ohio State University, Columbus Tower Gallery, New York Seattle Art Museum, Seattle Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Arch, Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn, New York
1985
Nelson’s Column, Trafalgar Square, London South Africa House, Trafalgar Square, London Duke of York’s Column, Waterloo Place, London Bundeshaus, Bern, Switzerland Guildhall, Derry, Northern Ireland Festival Centre Complex, Adelaide, Australia Cenotaph and Grand Parade War Memorial, Halifax, Nova Scotia Canada House, Trafalgar Square, London Royal Bank of Canada Building, Montreal
1986
Allegheny County Memorial Hall, Pittsburgh Condottiere Bartolomeo Colleoni Statue, Academy of Fine Arts, Warsaw The Homeless Projection 2, Soldiers and Sailors (Civil War) Monument, Boston Campanile, Piazza San Marco, Venice Campo Santa Maria in Formosa, Venice Condottiere Bartolomeo Colleoni Monument, Campo Santi Giovanni e Paolo, Venice Porta Magna, Arsenale, Venice Fine Arts Center, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
1987
Museum Fridericianum, documenta 8, Kassel, West Germany Monument to Friedrich II, documenta 8, Kassel, West Germany Martin Luther Kirchturm, documenta 8, Kassel, West Germany Real Estate Projection, Chicago Westin Bonaventure Hotel, Los Angeles
1988
The Border Projection, San Diego Museum of Man, San Diego The Border Projection, Centro Cultural Tijuana / CECUT, Tijuana, Mexico R. C. Harris Walter Filtration Plant, Toronto National Monument, Calton Hill, Edinburgh Festival, Edinburgh New Observatory, Calton Hill, Edinburgh Festival, Edinburgh Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, museum façade, Washington, D.C. Flakturm, Arenberg Park, Wiener Festwochen, Vienna Neue Hofburg, Heldenplatz, Wiener Festwochen, Vienna
1989
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
1990
Lenin Monument, DAAD, East Berlin Haus Huth, Potsdamer Platz, DAAD, West Berlin Zion Square (Kikar Tziyon), Jerusalem Tuxedo Royale, Tyne River, Newcastle upon Tyne, England
1991
Arco de la Victoria, Madrid Oud-Amelisweerd, Bunnik, Netherlands Centraal Museum, Utrecht, Netherlands
1996
Old City Hall Tower, Kraków, Poland Andrzej Wajda Festival and Bunkier Sztuki, Kraków, Poland
1998
Bunker Hill Monument, Let Freedom Ring and Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Charlestown, Boston 1999 A-Bomb Dome, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima 2001 Centro Cultural Tijuana / CECUT, InSITE 2000, Tijuana, Mexico 2004 Central Library, St. Louis
2005
Zachęta – National Gallery of Art, Zachęta building, Warsaw
2006
Sans-papiers, Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel
2008
Imperial Castle gate, Signum Foundation, Poznań, Poland Adam Mickiewicz Monument, National Theater, Warsaw War Veteran Vehicle Projections, Denver
2009
War Veteran Projections, Liverpool, England Veterans’ Flame, Fort Jay, Governors Island, Creative Time, New York
2010
The Veteran’s Flame, Wzgórze Partyzantów (Partisans Hill), Wrocław, Poland War Veteran Projections, Profile Foundation, Warsaw Veterans Flame Greenpoint, Bring to Light Festival, Brooklyn, New York Survival Projection, in conjunction with Yokohama Triennale, Yokohama War Veteran Vehicle, Eindhoven, Netherlands
2012
Abraham Lincoln: War Veteran Projection, Union Square, More Art, New York The New Mechelenians, Newtopia: The State of Human Rights, Mechelen, Belgium
2013
Projection for Derry~Londonderry, Derry/Londonderry, Northern Ireland War Veteran Projection, Old Market, Kraków, Museum of Contemporary Art / MOCAK, Kraków, Poland
2014
The Homeless Projection: Place des Arts, Biennale de Montréal, Montreal
2015
John Harvard Statue Projection, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, Massachusetts Wojciech Bogusławski statue, National Theater, Warsaw
2016
Goethe–Schiller monument, Bauhaus-Universität and Kunstfest Weimar, Weimar, Germany
2018
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, museum façade, Washington, D.C., on the occasion of the exhibition Brand New: Art and Commodity in the 1980s; reprise of the original 1988 projection
2019
War Veteran Projection, Open City Festival, Lublin, Poland
2020
Loro (Them), Parco Sempione, Teatro Continuo di Alberto Burri, More Art, Milan Incomers, Municipal Gallery Arsenał and Estrada Poznańska, Poznań, Poland Monument, Admiral David Glasgow Farragut Monument, Madison Square Park, Madison Square Park Conservancy, New York
A House Divided…
INTERIOR PROJECTIONS
1986
The Homeless Projection: A Proposal for Union Square, 49th Parallel, Centre for Contemporary Canadian Art, New York
1987
Real Estate Projection, Hal Bromm Gallery, New York
1989
New York City Tableaux: Tompkins Square, Exit Art, New York; trav. Painted Bride Art Center, Philadelphia; Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon; Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, D.C.; Wexner Center for the Arts, The University of Ohio, Columbus
1990
New York City Tableaux: Tompkins Square, Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, D.C.
1991
New York City Tableaux: Tompkins Square, Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon
1992
La vue: La Courneuve, Galerie Gabrielle Maubrie, Paris
1995
New York City Tableaux: Tompkins Square, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco Transported Image, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco Room with a View, Foksal Gallery, Warsaw
2005
If You See Something . . . , Galerie Lelong, New York
2007
If You See Something . . . , Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona / MACBA, Barcelona
2008
The Poznań Projection, Poznań, Poland
2009
. . . Out of Here, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston Veterans’ Flame, Fort Jay, Governors Island, New York Guests, 53rd International Art Exhibition—La Biennale di Venezia, Polish Pavilion, Venice If You See Something . . . , National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto
2010
Guests (second version of 2009 Venice Biennale projection), Atlas Sztuki, Łódź, Poland If You See Something . . . , National Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
2011
. . . Out of Here (second version), Galerie Lelong, New York
2013
Out/Inside(rs), DOX Centre for Contemporary Art, Prague
2014
Blessures invisibles, Galerie Gabrielle Maubrie, Paris
2019
Head in the Cloud (with Rafael Lozano-Hemmer), Musée de la Civilisation, Quebec City, Quebec Future and the Arts: AI, Robotics, Cities, Life—How Humanity Will Live Tomorrow (with Rafael Lozano-Hemmer), Mori Art Museum, Tokyo Living Pictures, Profile Foundation, Warsaw
2020
A House Divided . . . , Galerie Lelong, New York
AWARDS
1999
Hiroshima Art Prize, City of Hiroshima, Japan
2004
Award for Distinguished Body of Work, College Art Association, New York György Kepes Fellowship Prize, Council for the Arts at MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts
2006
Faculty Design Award, Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture, Washington, D.C.
2007
Katarzyna Kobro Prize, Adres Gallery, Łódź, Poland
2008
Babi Yar Park Public Art Project, Mizel Museum and Babi Yar Park Foundation, Denver Skowhegan Medal for Sculpture, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, New York
2009
Gold Gloria Artis Cultural Merit Award, Polish Ministry of Culture, Warsaw
2011
Best Architecture or Design Show, second place, U.S. Art Critics Association, New York Knight’s Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta, Republic of Poland
EDUCATION
1968
MFA, Academy of Fine Arts, Warsaw
bro. = brochure; cat. = catalogue; r. exh. = retrospective exhibition; trav. = traveled to