13th Mercosul Biennial
Ministry of Citizenship and Santander, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
September 15th - November 20th, 2022
Curated by: Marcello Dantas
33 Questions per Minute
Spots Mediafaçade, Berlin, Germany
January, 2005 - January, 2006
Curated by: Andreas Broeckman
ARCO '95 - The Trace
Fundacion Arte y Tecnologia, Madrid, Spain
Opened/happened in 1995
Airport Cluster
Foto/Graphik Galerie Käethe Kollwitz, Berlin, Germany
Opened/happened in 2001
Curated by: Pat Binder
Amodal Suspension
opening project of the Yamaguchi Center for Art and Media, Yamaguchi, Japan
Opened/happened in 2003
Body Movies
Fête du 400e anniversaire de Québec, Québec, Québec, Canada
Opened/happened in 2008
Body Movies
Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, United Kingdom
Opened/happened in 2002
Curated by: Eddie Berg and Lewis Biggs
Body Movies
Cultural Capital of Europe Festival, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Opened/happened in 2001
Curated by: Alex Adriaansens and Andreas Broeckmann
Border Tuner / Sintonizador Fronterizo
Bowie High School / Chamizal Park, Ciudad Juárez, México / El Paso, Texas, United States
November 13th - November 24th, 2019
Curated by: Kerry Doyle and León de la Rosa
An interactive public art installation across the US-Mexico border by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer.
Three interactive stations on each side of the border will control powerful searchlight beams using a small dial wheel. When lights from any two stations are directed at each other, microphones and speakers automatically switch-on to allow participants to talk with one another, creating cross-border conversations. View details.
Displaced Emperors
Ars Electronica Festival, Linz, Austria
Opened/happened in 1997
Frequency and Volume
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California, United States
November 3rd, 2012 - February 3rd, 2013
Curated by: Rudolf Frieling
Frequency and Volume
The Curve, London, United Kingdom
October 9th, 2008 - January 18th, 2009
Curated by: Francesco Manacorda and Ariella Yedgar
Levels of Nothingness
Guggenheim Museum, New York City, New York, United States
September 21st - September 27th, 2009
Open Air
Association for public art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
September 20th - October 14th, 2012
Curated by: Penny Balkin Bach
Pulse Front
Power Plant, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Opened/happened in 2007
Curated by: Gregory Burke from Power Plant
Pulse Glow
Pulse Glow Festival, Eindhoven, Netherlands
Opened/happened in 2009
Pulse Park
Madison Square Park, New York City, New York, United States
Opened/happened in 2008
Pulse Room
IZOLYATSIA, Platform for Cultural Initiatives, Donetsk, Ukraine
September 5th, 2013 - January 10th, 2014
Pulse Show
Beall Center, Irvine, California, United States
September 30th, 2010 - January 22nd, 2011
Curated by: David Familian
Pulse Spiral
Pei Ling Chan Gallery, Savannah, Georgia, United States
January 10th - February 25th, 2011
Pulse Spiral
Center for Contemporary Culture - Melnikov Garash, Moscow, Russia
Opened/happened in 2008
Curated by: Molly Dent-Brocklehurst
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer
Haunch of Venison, London, United Kingdom
October 15th - November 29th, 2008
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer
bitforms gallery, New York City, New York, United States
Opened/happened in 2008
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer
bitforms gallery, New York City, New York, United States
Opened/happened in 2007
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer
bitforms gallery, New York City, New York, United States
Opened/happened in 2006
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer
Galería OMR, Mexico City, México
November - December, 2004
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer
bitforms gallery, New York City, New York, United States
Opened/happened in 2003
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: A Crack in the Hourglass, An Ongoing COVID-19 Memorial
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York, United States
October 29th, 2021 - August 7th, 2022
Curated by: Drew Sawyer, Phillip Leonian and Edith Rosenbaum Leonian
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: A Draft of Shadows
Bildmuseet, Umeå, Sweden
November 2nd, 2014 - April 26th, 2015
Curated by: Cecilia Andersson
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Abstracción Biométrica
Borusan Contemporary, Madrid, Spain
May 14th - October 12th, 2014
Curated by: Kathleen Forde
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Atmospheric Memory
Manchester International Festival, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States
December 2nd - December 17th, 2021
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Atmospheric Memory
Manchester International Festival, Manchester, United Kingdom
July 6th - July 21st, 2019
Curated by: Jose Luis de Vicente
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Caudales
Casa de México España, Madrid, Spain
February 26th - April 24th, 2022
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Cercanía
Arsenal Art Contemporain, Montréal, Québec, Canada
July 30th - October 24th, 2020
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Common Measures
PACE Gallery New York, New York City, New York, United States
September 8th - October 22nd, 2022
Curated by: Kimberly Jones
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Confirmation Bias
bitforms gallery, New York City, New York, United States
September 5th - October 21st, 2018
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Decision Forest
Amorepacific Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea
May 2nd - August 26th, 2018
Curated by: KyoungRan Kim
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: EXCUSE YOU!
Wilde Gallery, Basel, Switzerland
June 13th - August 20th, 2022
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Flujo Óptico
Galería Max Estrella, Madrid, Spain
February 13th - April 27th, 2019
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Haciendo Agua
Max Estrella, Madrid, Spain
February 19th - April 16th, 2022
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: La Arena Fuera del Reloj
Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City, México
November 7th, 2020 - November 7th, 2021
Curated by: Cuauhtémoc Medina
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Lapsus Lumen
bitforms gallery, New York City, New York, United States
September 13th - November 1st, 2015
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Latidos
Arte Abierto, Mexico City, México
February 6th - December 13th, 2020
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Listening Forest
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas, United States
August 30th - December 31st, 2023
Curated by: Alejo Benedetti
“Listening Forest” is an immersive art walk designed to transform Crystal Bridges’ North Forest at night. Eight large-scale interactive artworks are carefully and harmoniously installed on the forest grounds to create an interactive pathway that uses technology which responds to unique physical characteristics of individuals, forming connections between strangers and the landscape itself.
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Listening Forest
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas, United States
March 1st - May 28th, 2023
Curated by: Alejo Benedetti
“Listening Forest” is an immersive art walk designed to transform Crystal Bridges’ North Forest at night. Eight large-scale interactive artworks are carefully and harmoniously installed on the forest grounds to create an interactive pathway that uses technology which responds to unique physical characteristics of individuals, forming connections between strangers and the landscape itself.
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Listening Forest
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas, United States
August 31st, 2022 - 2023
Curated by: Alejo Benedetti
“Listening Forest” is an immersive art walk designed to transform Crystal Bridges’ North Forest at night. Eight large-scale interactive artworks are carefully and harmoniously installed on the forest grounds to create an interactive pathway that uses technology which responds to unique physical characteristics of individuals, forming connections between strangers and the landscape itself.
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Obra Sonora
Carroll / Fletcher Gallery, London, United Kingdom
September 25th - November 1st, 2014
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Polynomials
Art Bärtschi & Cie, Genève, Switzerland
March 19th - May 23rd, 2015
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Polímeros
Galería Max Estrella, Madrid, Spain
May 10th - September 7th, 2014
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Preabsence
Haus der Elektronischen Künste Basel, Basel, Switzerland
June 8th - August 28th, 2016
Curated by: Sabine Himmelsbach
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Pseudomatismos
Museo Universitario Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City, México
October 28th, 2015 - April 17th, 2016
Curated by: José Luis Barrios y Alejandra Labastida
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Pulse
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C., United States
November 1st, 2018 - April 28th, 2019
Curated by: Stéphane Aquin
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Pulse Spiral
Exploratorium, San Francisco, California, United States
May 15th - August 17th, 2014
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Pulse Topology
The Bentway, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
October 2nd - October 31st, 2021
An array of 3,000 lights will create a landscape of upside-down mountains and valleys suspended from the interior of the space and, using touchless biometric technology, will react in real-time to the pulse of visitors’ heartbeats. The artwork will change and evolve with every visit, offering a unique sensory experience.
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Pulse Topology
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri, United States
June 25th, 2021 - January 2nd, 2022
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Recent Works
Arsenal Art Contemporain, Montréal, Québec, Canada
November 16th, 2020 - May 1st, 2021
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Recorders
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
December 16th, 2011 - February 12th, 2012
A large-scale solo exhibition, presenting eight to thirteen interactive pieces that underline the performative character of the public as an integral part of the artwork. In "Recorders" artworks hear, see or feel the public; they exhibit awareness and record and replay memories entirely obtained during the show. The pieces either depend on participation to exist or predatorily gather information on the public through surveillance and biometric technologies. The exhibition is meant to oscillate between the seduction of participation, preservation and inclusion, and the violence of Orwellian and ubiquitous computerized detection. In all cases the artwork compiles a database of behaviours that then becomes the artwork itself.
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Recorders
Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester, United Kingdom
September 15th, 2010 - January 30th, 2011
A large-scale solo exhibition, presenting eight to thirteen interactive pieces that underline the performative character of the public as an integral part of the artwork. In "Recorders" artworks hear, see or feel the public; they exhibit awareness and record and replay memories entirely obtained during the show. The pieces either depend on participation to exist or predatorily gather information on the public through surveillance and biometric technologies. The exhibition is meant to oscillate between the seduction of participation, preservation and inclusion, and the violence of Orwellian and ubiquitous computerized detection. In all cases the artwork compiles a database of behaviours that then becomes the artwork itself. View details.
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Recorders
Edith Russ Haus für Medienkunst, Oldenburg, Germany
June 7th - August 17th, 2008
Curated by: Sabine Himmelsbach
A large-scale solo exhibition, presenting eight to thirteen interactive pieces that underline the performative character of the public as an integral part of the artwork. In "Recorders" artworks hear, see or feel the public; they exhibit awareness and record and replay memories entirely obtained during the show. The pieces either depend on participation to exist or predatorily gather information on the public through surveillance and biometric technologies. The exhibition is meant to oscillate between the seduction of participation, preservation and inclusion, and the violence of Orwellian and ubiquitous computerized detection. In all cases the artwork compiles a database of behaviours that then becomes the artwork itself.
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Signos e Índices
NC-arte, Bogotá, Colombia
October 25th, 2014 - February 21st, 2015
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Solar Equation
Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, Québec, Québec, Canada
September 27th, 2018 - April 11th, 2019
Curated by: Bernard Lamarche
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Solar Equation
Lumiere Festival, Durham, United Kingdom
November 14th - November 17th, 2013
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: The Year's Midnight
Canada Council for the Arts, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
January 27th - September 30th, 2014
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Trackers
Fundación Telefónica, Buenos Aires, Argentina
October 18th - December 23rd, 2012
The exhibition is conceived as an environment mixing detection technologies and audiovisual explorations in real time. By using "live cameras" and tracking systems, we attempt to materialize computerized surveillance, transforming the technological observation into a tangible form.
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Trackers
La Gaîté Lyrique, Paris, France
September 29th - November 13th, 2011
The exhibition is conceived as an environment mixing detection technologies and audiovisual explorations in real time. By using "live cameras" and tracking systems, we attempt to materialize computerized surveillance, transforming the technological observation into a tangible form.
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Transition States
Gund Gallery, Gambier, Ohio, United States
October 10th, 2016 - January 2nd, 2017
Curated by: Natalie Marsh
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Translation Island
Department of Culture and Tourism of Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
November 20th, 2023 - January 31st, 2024
Curated by: Reem Fadda and Alia Zaal Sultan Lootah
"Translation Island" consists of ten audiovisual artworks—six of them world-premieres—that transform Lulu Island, a deserted island right across the water from downtown Abu Dhabi. Visitors are welcome to interact with the artworks by walking a two-kilometre-long lit path inside the island, alongside sand dunes, desert flora, beaches, and fresh water lakes. View details.
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Unstable Presence
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California, United States
October 2nd, 2021 - March 16th, 2022
Curated by: Rudolf Frieling and Lesley Johnstone
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Presencia Inestable
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey, Monterrey, México
August 23rd, 2019 - March 1st, 2020
Curated by: Rudolf Frieling and Lesley Johnstone
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Présence instable
Musée d'Art Contemporain de Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Canada
May 23rd - September 9th, 2018
Curated by: Rudolf Frieling and Lesley Johnstone
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Vicious Circular Breathing
Borusan Contemporary, Istanbul, Turkey
September 14th, 2013 - February 16th, 2014
Curated by: Kathleen Forde
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Voice Array
Mexican Cultural Institute Washington D.C., Washington, D.C., United States
October 31st, 2018 - April 28th, 2019
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Voice Array
bitforms gallery, New York City, New York, United States
September 6th - October 20th, 2012
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Voice Theatre
Haus der Elektronischen Künste Basel, Basel, Switzerland
June 9th - July 1st, 2018
Curated by: Sabine Himmelsbach
Voice Theatre is a large scale interactive light installation initially designed for Augusta Raurica, a Roman archeological site in Switzerland. Participants’ voices are converted into pulses of light, arranged in concentric rings across the theatre. The glimmering lights manifest voices in real time and vary in intensity according to the volume of each recording. The piece creates a memory theatre of live and recorded messages that can be both seen and heard.
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Wavefunction, Subsculpture 9
University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
April 22nd - July 31st, 2017
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: X no es la nueva Y
Galería OMR, Mexico City, México
April 17th - September 1st, 2012
Re:Positioning Fear
3rd Internationale Biennale Film +Architektur, Graz, Austria
Opened/happened in 1997
Curated by: Charlotte Pöchacker
Recent works
Galerie Guy Bärtschi, Genève, Switzerland
May 14th - September 5th, 2009
Relational Architectures
Laboratorio Arte Alameda, Mexico City, México
May - June, 2003
Curated by: Priamo Lozada
Some Things Happen More Often Than All Of The Time
Mexican Pavilion, Venice, Italy
Opened/happened in 2007
Curated by: Príamo Lozada and Bárbara Perea
Subsculptures
Galerie Guy Bärtschi, Genève, Switzerland
Opened/happened in 2005
Subtitled Public
Sala de Arte Público Siqueiros, Mexico City, México
Opened/happened in 2005
Curated by: Itala Schmelz and Jennifer Teets
TECHS-MECHS: A Survey of Mexican Technological Culture
Gray Area Foundation for the Arts, San Francisco, California, United States
March 16th - May 31st, 2023
Curated by: Wade Wallerstein
“TECHS-MECHS,” a new survey of eleven works by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer hosted by Gray Area, brings together canonical pieces such as immersive installations, kinetic sculptures, generative animations, and large-scale shadow theatres, alongside a rich chronology of technological cultural history in the artist's native Mexico.
The exhibition marks the West Coast premiere of Pulse Topology (2021), an immersive canopy of 3,000 lightbulbs that glimmer to the pulse of visitors, which will be shown at Gray Area's iconic Grand Theater. Also on exhibit as part of TECHS-MECHS is Synaptic Caguamas (2004), Sway (2016), Airborne Newscasts (2013), Reporters with Borders (2007), Border Tuner (Video Documentary by Art21), "Recurrent First Dream" (2022), Inspired by Real Events (2004), Volute Zero (2016), and Remote Pulse (2019). View details.
Transition States
Haunch of Venison, New York City, New York, United States
September 10th - October 24th, 2009
Two Origins
Printemps de Septembre Festival, Toulouse, France
Opened/happened in 2002
Curated by: Marta Gili
Under Scan
East Midlands Development Agency, Nottingham, United Kingdom
Opened/happened in March, 2006
Under Scan
East Midlands Development Agency, Derby, United Kingdom
February - March, 2006
Under Scan
East Midlands Development Agency, Leicester, United Kingdom
Opened/happened in 2006
Under Scan
East Midlands Development Agency, Lincoln, United Kingdom
November - December, 2005
Vectorial Elevation
Cultural Olympiad, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Opened/happened in February, 2010
Vectorial Elevation
celebrations of Europe expansion, Dublin, Ireland
Opened/happened in 2004
Vectorial Elevation
Fête des Lumières, Lyon, France
Opened/happened in 2003
Curated by: Claire Peillod
Vectorial Elevation
Opening project of Artium, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
Opened/happened in 2002
Curated by: Juan Guardiola and Javier González de Durana
Vectorial Elevation
Zócalo Square, Mexico City, México
December 26th, 1999 - January 7th, 2000
Vigilancias Materializadas
Galería Max Estrella, Madrid, Spain
May 13th - July 24th, 2010
Voice Array, performance by beatboxer Rahzel - The Godfather of Noyze
bitforms gallery, New York City, New York, United States
Opened/happened on September 6th, 2012
Voice Tunnel
DOT Summer Streets, New York City, New York, United States
August 3rd - August 17th, 2013
Voz Alta
Memorial for the Tlatelolco student massacre, Mexico City, México
Opened/happened in 2008
Curated by: Sergio Raul Arroyo