Rafael Lozano Hemmer

Mexican-Canadian artist working with ideas from architecture, technology, and performance. His participatory public art has been commissioned for events such as the Expansion of the European Union in Dublin (2004), the Tlatelolco Massacre Memorial in Mexico City (2008), the Vancouver Olympics (2010), the Raurica Roman Theater in Basel (2018), and the Memorial for Covid Victims at the Brooklyn Museum (2021). In 2007, he was the first artist to represent Mexico at the Venice Biennale, and has also exhibited at the Biennales of Sydney, Liverpool, Kochi, Mercosur, Istanbul, Havana, New Orleans, Shanghai, Singapore, and many others. In 2019, his interactive installation “Border Tuner” connected people across the US-Mexico border through light bridges controlled by the voices of participants. Among the collections that house his work are the MoMA in New York, the NGV in Melbourne, the Tate in London, the SFMOMA in San Francisco, the MAC in Montreal, the Museo Reina Sofía in Madrid and the MUAC in Mexico City.

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