Krzysztof Wodiczko, Artist
2025 THOMAS SCHROTH MEMORIAL VISITING ARTIST SERIES
Krzysztof Wodiczko
Cultural Prosthetics: Projections and Instrumentations
Discussants: Isabel Farnsworth, Eli Kessler, Taraneh Meshkani, Sung Ho Kim
WEDNESDAY 2/26 @ 5:15PM EST
Cene Lecture Hall + Zoom
Krzysztof Wodiczko (born 1943 in Warsaw, Poland) lives and works in New York City, Cambridge, Massachusetts and Warsaw, Poland. He is renowned for his large-scale projections on architectural facades and monuments. He has realized more than 90 projections in 20 countries.
Wodiczko, a former director of MIT’s Center for Advanced Visual Studies, is MIT Professor of Art Design and the Public Domain, Emeritus Professor at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design, and Visiting Professor of Media Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. Since the 1980s, his projections and specifically designed performative instruments engage marginalized city residents in developing and disseminating their public voice and expression. Wodiczko has had major retrospective exhibitions at Walker Art Center, Fundacio Antoni Tapies, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, DOX Art Center, Prague, Muzeum Sztuki Lodz, F.A.C.T. Liverpool, M.M.C.A. in Seoul, and many other museums and art cneters. His work has also been exhibited at Documenta (twice), Venice Biennale (Canadian and Polish pavilions), Whitney Biennial, Liverpool Biennale, and other biennales, art festivals and international exhibitions.
Wodiczko received the 4th Hiroshima Art Prize “for his contribution as an international artist to the world peace.” His works are in the public collections of the Hirschhorn Museum, New York MoMA, Centre Pompidou, National Museum of Poland, Macba, Barcelona, Walker Art Cneter, and many other museums and private collections. He received a Ph.D. from Warsaw’s Academy of Fine Arts. He is an author of Critical Vehicles, City of Refuge: Sept. 11, The Abolition of War, The Transformative Avant-Garde, and other books by Black Dog Press (London), including a comprehensive monograph, Krzysztof Wodiczko. His work is also being presented as part of the PBS television series “Art in the Twenty-First Century,” and “Art 21 Extended Play”. A film, Krzysztof Wodiczko: Art of Un-War, directed by Maria Niro, was released in 2022.