Krzysztof Wodiczko born in 1943 in Warsaw, lives and works in New York City, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Warsaw. A multimedia artist, art theoretician, university professor.
Since 1980 he has carried close to 80 projections in several dozen countries on different continents. Using transparencies and video streams, shown in galleries and museum spaces or projected on building walls and public monuments, charged with political and social meanings, the projections dealt with the issues of human rights, democracy, violence and alienation. Starting with the Town Hall Tower Projection (Cracow, 1996), the artist began animating city monuments and public buildings with live sound and image(Bunker Hill Monument, Boston,1998; Atomic-Bomb Dome, Hiroshima, 1999; Centro Cultural Tijuana, 2001; fa�ade of the Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, 2005; Kunstmuseum, Basel, 2006, Adam Mickiewicz Monument, Warsaw, 2008, et al.). The artist is currently preparing a Creative Time-commissioned project for Governors Island, New York City). Another public projection is being planned for the Museo d�Arte Moderna di Bologna in 2010.
He is the author of a series of vehicles and instruments reflecting his critical-utopian strategy. In the 1970s, he made allegorical projects � the Vehicles, commenting on the limits of freedom in the political space of 1970s Poland. In the successive decades he continued working on instruments and vehicles designed for the homeless, immigrants, and war veterans: Homeless Vehicle (1987� 89), Poliscar (1991), Alien Staff (1992�97), Porte-Parole (1994�97), �gis (2000), Dis-armor (1999). His War Veteran Vehicle was presented in August 2008 during the National Democratic Convention in Denver, Colorado.
He is currently working on a responsive illumination project for the City of Cambridge, Massachusetts, a memorial commemorating the abolition of slavery in Nantes (France), and a project for the Port of Dublin, commissioned by the Fire Station Art Centre.
Krzysztof Wodiczko has had solo exhibitions at, among other places: MIT Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, Mass.; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Muzeum Sztuki in Łï¿½dź; Fundaci� T�pies, Barcelona; Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut; Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, California; La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, California; Galerie Gabrielle Maubrie, Paris; CCA Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw; Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw; Bunkier Sztuki, Cracow; De Appel, Amsterdam; Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima; Museum of Contemporary Art, Houston; Galerie Lelong, New York. A solo show is being planned for 2009 at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, and in 2013 at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sof�a, Madrid.
He has participated in numerous international contemporary art exhibitions, such as Documenta 6 (1977) and Documenta 8 (1987) in Kassel, S�o Paulo Biennale (1965, 1985), Paris Biennale (1969, 1975), Sydney Biennale (1979, 1982), Lyon Biennale (1993), Venice Biennale (1986), Whitney Biennale (2000), and Gwangju Biennale (2000, 2004, 2006).
He has also participated in theme exhibitions: Pr�sences polonaises, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, 1983; Les Magiciens de la Terre, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, 1989; Where is Abel, Thy Brother?, Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, 1997; Design for the Real World, Generali Foundation, Vienna, 2002; The Interventionists: Art in the Social Sphere � Creative Disruption of Everyday Life, Mass MoCA, North Adams, Massachusetts, 2005; Cold World Modern, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, 2008.
He has taught art and design at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts and the Warsaw University of Technology; the �cole Nationale Sup�rieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris; The California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California; The Cooper Union School of Art, New York; The University of Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut; The New York Institute of Technology, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax, Canada; The Ontario College of Art, Toronto. He is currently director of the Center for Advanced Visual Studies, head of the Interrogative Design Group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, and professor at the Warsaw School of Social Sciences and Humanities.
His essays on public art have been published in anthologies of theoretical-critical writings, such as Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art, Art in Theory: 1945�1995, numerous periodicals (e.g. October, Art Press, Canadian Journal of Political and Social Theory, Assemblage, Grand Street) and exhibition catalogues: Public Address, Walker Art Center; Instruments, Projections, Vehicles, Fundaci� Antoni T�pies, Barcelona; Projekcje publiczne 1996�2004, Bunkier Sztuki, Krak�w; Krzysztof Wodiczko. Pomnikoterapia, Zachęta Narodowa Galeria Sztuki, Warszawa).
The extensive bibliography of publications devoted to Krzysztof Wodiczko includes, inter alia, the following titles: �Conversations About a Project for a Homeless Vehicle,� October 47, Winter 1988; Krzysztof Wodiczko: New York City Tableaux, Tompkins Square and the Homeless Vehicle Project, New York: Exit Art, 1990; The Homeless Vehicle Project, Art Random, Kyoto: Kyoto Shoin International, 1991; Krzysztof Wodiczko: Instruments, Projections, Vehicles, Barcelona: Fundaci� Antoni T�pies, 1992; Krzysztof Wodiczko: Public Address, Minneapolis: Walker Art Center, 1992; Krzysztof Wodiczko: Art Public, Art Critique, Paris: �cole Nationale Sup�rieure des Beaux-Arts, 1995; Krzysztof Wodiczko. Sztuka publiczna, Warszawa: CSW Zamek Ujazdowski, 1995; Krzysztof Wodiczko, Amsterdam: De Appel,1996; Krzysztof Wodiczko, The 4th Hiroshima Art Prize, Hiroshima: Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, 1999; Krzysztof Wodiczko: Critical Vehicles; Writings, Projects, Interviews, Cambridge, Mass., London, MIT Press,1999; Krzysztof Wodiczko, Projekcje publiczne: 1996�2004, Krak�w: Bunkier Sztuki, 2005; Krzysztof Wodiczko. Pomnikoterapia, Warszawa: Zachęta Narodowa Galeria Sztuki, 2005.
He is a laureate of the Hiroshima Art Prize (1998), the Kepes Art Prize (2004), the Katarzyna Kobro Prize (2006), and the Skowhegan Medal for Sculpture (2008). He holds honorary doctorates from Maine College of Art (2004) and the Poznań Academy of the Fine Arts (2007).
The artist is represented by:
Galerie Lelong, New York
Galerie Gabrielle Maubrie, Paris
Profile Foundation, Warsaw
Signum Foundation, Poznań
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Represented by Galerie Lelong, New York
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Krzysztof Wodiczko - Polish Pavilion, 53rd International Art Exhibition in Venice
Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw
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