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Born: Mexico City in 1967 Lives: Montreal, Qu�bec

Education 1989 B.Sc. in Physical Chemistry from Concordia University in Montr�al, Canada
Solo Exhibitions 2008 "Wavefunction", Kulczyk Foundation, Poznan, Poland "Under Scan", Trafalgar Square, London, UK "Pulse Park", Madison Square Park, New York City, NY, USA "Rafael Lozano-Hemmer", bitforms gallery, New York City, NY, USA "Rafael Lozano-Hemmer", Haunch of Venison, London, UK " Frequency and Volume", (commissioned by Kate Rich, curators: Francesco Manacorda and Ariella Yedgar), The Curve, Barbican Centre, London, UK "Voz Alta", Memorial for the Tlatelolco student massacre (curator: Sergio Raul Arroyo), Mexico City, M�xico "Body Movies", Quebec City 400th anniversary, Parc de la C�ti�re, Quebec City, Canada "Pulse Spiral", (cuartor: Molly Dent-Brocklehurst), Center for Contemporary Culture - Melnikov Garash, Moscow, Russia "Recorders", (curator: Sabine Himmelsbach), Edith Russ Haus f�r Medienkunst, Oldenburg, Germany "Body Movies", Te Papa Museum, Wellington, New Zealand 2007 "Some Things Happen More Often Than All Of The Time" (curated by Pr�amo Lozada and B�rbara Perea), Mexican Pavilion � 52 Biennale di Venezia, Venice. "Pulse Front", Public art installation commissioned by and premiered at LuminaTO. Curated by Gregory Burke, The Power Plant and Co-produced with Harbourfront Centre, Toronto. 2006 "Body Movies", Museum or Art, HK Arts Development Council, Hong Kong. "Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, bitforms gallery, New York." "Under Scan", public art commission, East Midlands Development Agency, Nottingham, Castle Wharf, Derby, Market Square, Northampton, Market Square, Leicester, Humberstone Gate West. "33 Questions per Minute", (curator: Andreas Broeckman) Spots Mediafa�ade, with realities:united, Postdamer Platz 10, Berlin. 2005 "Subsculptures", Galerie Guy B�rtschi, Geneva. "Under Scan", public art commission, East Midlands Development Agency, Lincoln, Brayford University Campus. "Subtitled Public" (curators: Itala Schmelz, Jennifer Teets), Sala de Arte P�blico Siqueiros, Mexico City. 2004 "Rafael Lozano-Hemmer", OMR Gallery, Mexico City. "Vectorial Elevation", EU expansion celebrations, O'Connell Street, Dublin. 2003 "Rafael Lozano-Hemmer", bitforms gallery, New York. "Vectorial Elevation" (curator: Claire Peillod), F�te des Lumi�res, Place Bellecour, Lyon. "Amodal Suspension", opening project of the Yamaguchi Center for Art and Media (curators: Yukiko Shikata and Kazunao Abe), Yamaguchi, Japan. Access Pods and terminals for the piece were installed at: MACBA in Barcelona, MARS Lab in Bonn, C3 in Budapest, Fundaci�n Telef�nica in Buenos Aires, MIT MediaLab in Cambridge, Bauhaus in Dessau, IAMAS in Ogaki, ZKM in Karlsruhe, Kyoto Art Center in Kyoto, FACT in Liverpool, Science Museum in London, Ojo At�mico in Madrid, Laboratorio Arte Alameda in Mexico City, SAT in Montr�al, Sarai in New Delhi, Eyebeam in New York City, Wood Street Galleries in Pittsburgh, V2_Organisatie in Rotterdam, Ita� Cultural Center in S�o Paulo, Sendai Mediatheque in Sendai, Art Center Nabi in Seoul, NTT-ICC in Tokyo, MeSci in Tokyo, Ontario Science Centre in Toronto, Emily Carr in Vancouver, WRO Center in Wroclaw and Multimedia Institute in Zagreb. "Relational Architectures", (curator: Priamo Lozada), Laboratorio Arte Alameda, Mexico. "Body Movies", Duisburg Akzente, Duisburg. 2002 "Two Origins" (curator: Marta Gili), Place du Capitole, Printemps de Septembre Festival, Toulouse. "Vectorial Elevation" (curator: Juan Guardiola and Javier Gonz�lez de Durana), Opening project of Artium, Basque Contemporary Art Museum, Vitoria-Gasteiz. "Body Movies", Liverpool Biennial (curators: Eddie Berg, Lewis Biggs) Liverpool 2001 "Body Movies" (curators: Alex Adriaansens and Andreas Broeckmann), Cultural Capital of Europe Festival, V2 Grounding, Rotterdam. "Airport Cluster" (curator: Pat Binder), Foto/Graphik Galerie Kaethe Kollwitz, Berlin. 2000 "Vectorial Elevation" Z�calo Square, Mexico. 1997 "Re:Positioning Fear" (curator: Charlotte P�chacker), 3rd Internationale Biennale Film +Architektur, Graz. 1992 "On the Same Hand but in a Different Vein", Galerie Stornaway, Montreal. COLLECTIONS Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, Miami Colecci�n de Arte de la Comunidad de Madrid, Madrid Daros Foundation, Z�rich FRAC Collection Aquitaine, Bordeaux Jumex Collection, Mexico City MUAC, Mexico City MUSAC, Le�n Museum of Modern Art, New York Tate Collection, London
Group Exhibitions RECENT 2008 "Phantasmagoria: Specters of Absence", (Curator: Jos� Roca), Salina Art Center, Salina, Kansas, USA "The Prisoner's Dilemma", (curator: Leanne Mella), The Cisneros Fontanals Foundation in Miami, Florida, USA "Asedio" (curator: Jose Luis Barrios), Museo Universitario de Arte Contempor�neo, Mexico City, M�xico "The Art of Participation: 1950 to now" (curator: Rudolf Frieling), San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California, USA "Prospect.1, New Orleans Bienniale",(curator: Dan Cameron), NOMA Museum, New Orleans, USA "YOUniverse, 3rd International Bienniale of Contemporary Art" (curated by Peter Weibel, Marie-Ange Brayer and Wonil Rhee), Centro Andaluz de Arte Contempor�neo de Sevilla, Sevilla, Spain "Emergentes" (curator: Jos�-Carlos Mariategui), Centro Fundaci�n Telef�nica, Lima, Peru "Turn and Widen, 5th Seoul International Media Art Bienniale" (co-curator: Raul Zamudio), Seoul Museum of Art, South Korea "In Memoriam Albert Hofmann", (curator: Michel Blancsub�), Laberinto de la Ciencia y Las Artes, San Luis Potosi, M�xico "Synthetic Times - Media Art China, A Beijing Olympics Cultural Project" (curator: Zhang Ga), National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China "Phantasmagoria: Specters of Absence", (curator: Jos� Roca), University of Southern California, Fisher Gallery, Los Angeles, California, USA "No es Neutral" (curator: Felicitas Rausch), La Tabakalera, International Contemporary Culture Centre, San Sebasti�n, Spain "Intruders", (curator: M�lanie Boucher), Mus�e national des beaux-arts du Qu�bec, Quebec City, Canada "Maquinas y Almas - Souls and Machines" (curated by Montxo Algora and Jose Luis de Vicente), Museo Reina Sof�a, Madrid, Spain "Emergentes" (curator: Jos�-Carlos Mariategui), Espacio Fundaci�n Telef�nica, Buenos Aires, Argentina "Phantasmagoria: Specters of Absence" group show, (curator: Jos� Roca), The John and Marbe Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, Florida, USA "New Zealand Festival", Te Papa Museum, Wellington, New Zealand "Phantasmagoria: Specters of Absence", (curator: Jos� Roca), McColl Center for Visual Art, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA "Fortunate Objects" (curator: Cecilia Fajardo Hill), The Cisneros Fontanals Foundation in Miami, Florida, USA 2007 "Emergentes" (curator: Jos�-Carlos Mariategui), The Laboral Art Center, Gij�n, Spain "Automatic Update" (curator: Barbara London), Museum of Modern Art, New York. "Art Basel Unlimited", OMR, Guy B�rtschi and bitforms gallery, Art 38 Basel Fair, Basel. "Auto Emotion", (curator: Gregory Burke), Power Plant, Toronto. "Floating Artworks", (curator: Bruce Ferguson), TD Centre, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto. "Phantasmagoria, Specters of Absence", (curator: Jos� Roca), ICI, Biblioteca Luis Angel Arango, Bogot�. Art Brussels, Galerie Guy B�rtschi, Brussels. "Huge", Artcore Gallery, Toronto. ARCO, OMR, Guy B�rtschi, bitforms gallery, Madrid. Artefiera, Galerie Guy B�rtschi, Bologna. "Lines of Flight", (curator: Celina Jeffrey), LEF-CAAC, Hunter College, New York. LA Art Chelsea, OMR Gallery, New York. Pulse Fair, bitforms gallery, New York. "Collective One", Galerie Guy B�rtschi, Geneva. 2006 "Plataforma", (curator: Priamo Lozada), F�brica La Constancia, Puebla. "Forms of Classification: Alternative Knowledge and Contemporary Art", (curator: Cecilia Fajardo-Hill), CIFO, Miami. "Only the Paranoid Survive", HVCCA, Peekskill, New York. Armory Show, OMR Gallery, New York. FIAC, Galerie Guy B�rtschi, Paris. "Pre-Emptive", (curator: Philippe Pirotte), Kunsthalle Bern. "Zones of Contact", (curator: Charles Merewhether), Biennale of Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales. Volta, Guy B�rtschi, Basel. Toronto Art Fair, Artcore Gallery, Toronto. "Levinas: Ethics of Encounter", McGill University, Montr�al. "Electrohype", Malmo. "Caleidoscopios" (curator: Gustavo Romano), Centro Cultural de Espa�a en Buenos Aires, Argentina. ARCO, OMR, Guy B�rtschi, bitforms gallery, Madrid. ARCO, Comunidad de Madrid. "Scrabble", (curator: �lvaro Rodr�guez Fominaya), Centro Atl�ntico de Arte Moderno, Las Palmas. 2005 "Dataspace", (curator: Priamo Lozada), Laboratorio Alameda, Mexico. Art Basel Miami, OMR Gallery. "In the Line of Flight", Tsinghua University, Beijing. Guy B�rtschi, Geneva. "Algorithmic Revolution", (curator: Peter Weibel), ZKM, Karlsruhe. MUSAC, (curators: Agust�n Perez Rubio and Rafael Doctor), Le�n. FIAC, Galerie Guy B�rtschi, Paris. Centro cultural de Espa�a, M�xico. Art Cologne, Galer�a Metropolitana, Cologne. bitforms gallery Seoul. "Art Basel Unlimited", OMR Gallery, Art 36 Basel, Basel. Art Brussels, Galerie Guy B�rtschi. Mus�e d'Art Contemporain, Elektra Festival. Montr�al, Qu�bec. Dataspace Exhibition, Conde Duque Art Center, Madrid. ICC, Art Meets Media, (curator: Yukiko Shikata), Tokyo. ARCO, bitforms gallery, Madrid. ARCO, OMR Gallery, Madrid. Sal�n Bancomer, (curators: Jos� Luis Barrios, Jos� Springer, Sylvia Navarrete), Museum of Modern Art, Mexico. 2004 "LOOP", Galer�a Metropolitana, Barcelona. Art Basel Miami, OMR Gallery. "Techniques of the Visible", (curator: Sebastian Lopez), Shanghai Biennial, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai. Art Cologne, bitforms gallery. ARCO, OMR Gallery, Madrid. SAT, Montr�al. "Navigator exhibition", (curator: Jun-Jieh Wang), National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung. LA MOCA Digital Gallery, (curator: Alma Ruiz), Los Angeles. Art Basel 35, Galer�a OMR, Basel. 2003 Art Basel Miami, OMR Gallery, Miami. Paris Photo, (curator: Daniela Franco), Statement Project Room, Paris. "Open", New Designs for Open Space, Van Alen Institute, New York. "Ill Communication", (curator: Rob Tufnell), Dundee Contemporary Art, Dundee. "Critical Conditions", (curator: Tim Druckrey), Wood Street Gallery, Pittsburgh. 2002 "Resonancias", Observatori, Valencia. E-phos Festival, Athens. OK Centrum, Ars Electronica Festival, Linz. SAPPHIRE 02, Lisbon, Portugal. 6th International Festival for Architecture in Video, Florence. "Emo�ao Art.ficial", Itau Cultural, Sao Paulo. "Cibervisi�n 2", (curator: Karin Ohlenschl�ger), Conde Duque, Madrid. "Egofugal", (curator: Yuko Hasegawa), 7th International Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul. 2001 " MAD01", Ifema. Madrid. "Media Arts Festival", Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo. "Interactiva00", Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, M�rida. "Net.artmadrid", ARCO. Madrid.

Grants/Awards BAFTA British Academy Award for Interactive Art 2005, London, UK. Troph�e des Lumi�res, Lyon 2003. Best Interactive Installation, HorizonZero, Banff, Canada 2003. World Technology Network Award for the Arts, San Francisco 2003. Rockefeller-Ford Fellowship, New York 2003. Production grant from the Daniel Langlois Foundation, Montr�al 2003. Artist/Performer of the year, Wired Magazine Rave Awards, San Francisco 2003. Foreign Affairs ACA Grant, Canada 2003. International Bauhaus Award 2002, 1st Prize, Dessau, Germany. BAFTA British Academy Award for Interactive Art 2002, London, UK. Gold Award, Interactive Media Design Review 2002, I.D. Magazine, USA. Ars Electronica 2002, Interactive Art Distinction, Linz, Austria. Media Arts Grant, Canada Council for the Arts, 2001. Excellence Award, Media Arts Festival 2000, CG Arts, Tokyo, Japan. Medienkunstpreis 2000, Finalist, ZKM, Karlsruhe. Ars Electronica 2000, Interactive Art Golden Nica, Linz, Austria. SFMOMA Webby Awards 2000, Distinction, San Francisco. Ars Electronica 1998, Interactive Art Honorable Mention, Linz, Austria. Interactive Digital Media Awards 1996, Best Installation, Toronto, Canada. Cyberstar, 2nd Prize, K�ln, Germany. June 1995. Ars Electronica 1995, Interactive Art Honorable Mention, Linz, Austria. Canada Council Computer Integrated Media Grant, 1994. ICEX Espa�a, Travel Grant, 1993. Communications Canada, Equipment Grant, 1993. External Affairs Canada, Travel Grant, 1992. Canada Council Touring Office Grant, 1991. Canadian Consulate Grant, New York, 1991. Minist�re des Affaires culturelles du Qu�bec, bourse circulation, 1991. Canada Council Computer Integrated Media Grant, 1990.

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