Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, born in Mexico City in 1967, lives and works in Montréal. Mexican-Canadian media artist, he creates platforms for public participation by using technologies such as robotic lights, digital fountains, computerized surveillance, media walls, and telematic networks. Inspired by phantasmagoria, carnival, and animatronics, his interactive works are 'anti-monuments for people to self-represent'.

He was the first artist to represent Mexico at the Venice Biennale with an exhibition at Palazzo Van Axel in 2007. He has also shown at other Art Biennials such as Havana, Istanbul, Kochi, Liverpool, Melbourne, Mercosul, New Orleans, Shanghai, Singapore, Sydney, and Wuzhen. His large-scale participatory art installations transform public spaces, creating connective environments for communities. In 2019, he presented 'Border Tuner', designed to interconnect the cities of El Paso, Texas, and Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua. The project brought together tens of thousands of people, reuniting families on both sides of the US-Mexico border. Other works were commissioned for events such as the Millennium Celebrations in Mexico City (1999), the Cultural Capital of Europe in Rotterdam (2001), the UN World Summit in Lyon (2003), the Winter Olympics in Vancouver (2010), and the pre-opening of the Guggenheim Museum in Abu Dhabi (2015), among others. His works are in collections around the world such as MoMA, Guggenheim, TATE, Reina Sofía, Hirshhorn, NGV, MUAC, and MONA.

Major recent solo exhibitions include 'Unstable Presence', a mid-career retrospective co-produced by the Musée d’Art Contemporain de Montréal and SFMOMA; 'Listening Forest', installed over 120 acres of land at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas; 'Common Measures', his first solo exhibition at PACE Gallery, New York; and 'Translation Island', a 2-km parcours which included ten public artworks, in Lulu Island, Abu Dhabi. Please read further on his website >>here.

In November 2024, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer opened two Chambers of Wonder at Swarovski Kristallwelten (Swarovski Crystal Worlds).

>> Discover the Chamber of Wonder 'Pulse Voronoi'

>> Discover the Chamber of Wonder 'Kristallstimmen'