photo: Olivia Fougeirol
photo: Olivia Fougeirol
photo: Olivia Fougeirol

American artist and theorist Warren Neidich works between Berlin and New York City. He was trained in fine art, architecture, and neuroscience. In the past five years he has used texts, neon-light sculptures, paintings and photographs to create cross-pollinating conceptual works that reflect upon situations at the border zones of art, critical neuroscience and cognitive justice. He is founder and director of the Saas-Fee Summer Institute of Art since 2015. Awards include Maison Sugar Research Fellowship, Paris (2023), Getty Research Foundation Award (2022), Stiftung Kunstfonds NEUSTART KULTUR (2020 and 2021), Hauptstadtkulturfonds (2021), Katalogförderung des Berliner Senats (2017), and Vilém Flusser Theory Award, Transmediale (2010). Selected solo and group exhibitions include the Venice Biennale, Whitney Museum of American Art, MoMA PS1, Walker Art Center, MIT List Visual Art Center, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Smithsonian National Museum of American Art (Washington D.C., US), Palais de Tokyo, Villa Arson Nice, Museum Ludwig Köln, Haus Der Kunst Munich, Zentrum für Kunst and Media (Karlsruhe, DE), Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Berlin, DE), Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg and Kunsthalle Nürnberg. He is former tutor at Goldsmiths, University of London, and professor of visual art at the Weißensee Kunsthochschule in Berlin. He has been a visiting lecturer at Brown University, GSD Harvard University, Columbia University, Princeton University, Sorbonne University in Paris, and University of Oxford and Cambridge University among many others. His work has been the subject of over 150 magazine and newspaper articles including The New York Times, Time Magazine, Artforum, Art in America, Kunstforum International, The Art Newspaper, Hyperallergic, Artnet, GQ, Forbes, and Monopol. The fourth edition of his Glossary of Cognitive Activism will be released in the fall by Eris Press (UK) in collaboration with Columbia University Press (US). An Activist Neuroaesthetic Reader was published by Archive Books (DE) in 2021. Neidich is represented by Priska Pasquer Gallery in Paris and Barbara Seiler Gallery in Zurich.

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