Biography
Uriel Orlow lives and works between Lisbon, London and Zurich. He studied at Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design London, the University of Geneva, the Slade School of Art/University College London and UAL, completing a PhD in Fine Art in 2002.
Uriel Orlow is the recipient of the 2023 Swiss Grand Prix for Art / Prix Meret Oppenheim. In 2020 he received the C. F. Meyer Prize and in 2017 he was awarded the Sharjah Biennial prize. He also received a ‘Werkjahr’ award from the City of Zurich in 2015 and three Swiss Art Awards at Art Basel (2008, 2009, 2012) and was shortlisted for the Jarman award in 2013.
In 2020 Archive Books is publishing his monograph Conversing with Leaves, in 2019 Shelter Press published Soil Affinities and in 2018 Sternberg Press published Theatrum Botanicum.
Uriel Orlow’s practice is research-driven, process-oriented and often in dialogue with other disciplines and people. Projects engage with residues of colonialism, spatial manifestations of memory, social and ecological justice, blind spots of representation and plants as political actors. His multi-media installations focus on specific locations, micro-histories and forms of haunting. Working across installation, photography, film, drawing, sound and gardens his works bring different image-regimes and narrative modes into correspondence.
Uriel Orlow’s work has been presented at major survey exhibitions including in 2022 at the Berlin Biennale, British Art Show 9, Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Kathmandu Triennale 2077 and 14th Dakar Biennale and previously at the 54th Venice Biennale, Manifesta 9 & 12 in Genk and Palermo, Lubumbashi Biennial VI, 13th Sharjah Biennial, 7th Moscow Biennial, 8th Mercosul Biennial amongst others.
Notable and recent solo exhibitions include Casa da Cerca, Almada (2022–2023), Kunsthalle Nairs Switzerland (2021), La Loge, Brussels; State of Concept, Athens (both 2020), Kunsthalle Mainz (2019-2020), Tabakalera, San Sebastian and Villa Romana Florence (2019), Kunsthalle St Gallen Switzerland, Market Photo Workshop Johannesburg and Les Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers Paris (2018), PAV Turin (2017), The Showroom London (2016), Castello di Rivoli (2015).
Orlow’s work has also been shown in film festivals, museums and galleries internationally including at Locarno Film Festival, Oberhausen Film Festival in London at Tate, ICA and Gasworks and Whitechapel Gallery; in Paris at Palais de Tokyo, Fondation Ricard, Maison Populaire, Bétonsalon; at Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart; Project Arts, Dublin; and in Mexico City; Chicago, Vancouver; Cairo, Cape Town, Melbourne and elsewhere.
Orlow has taught at art colleges internationally including Goldsmiths University of London; Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design, London; HEAD – University of the Arts Geneva, Royal College of Art, London. He is currently reader (associate professor/ senior researcher) at University of Westminster, London and docent at ZHdK, the University of the Arts, Zurich.
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Acknowledgements
COMMISSIONING & INSTITUTIONAL SUPPORT
Al-Ma’mal Foundation for Contemporary Art Jerusalem, Centre culturel suisse Paris, Double agents, Edition Fink Zurich, Fri-Art centre d’art contemporain/Kunsthalle Fribourg, Gasworks London, IFCAR Zurich, Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) London, Les Complices* Zurich, Lux, Parc Saint Léger, School of Advanced Study/University of London, Shedhalle Zurich, Showroom London, University of Westminster, Utopiana
FUNDING
Arts Council England, Arts and Humanities Research Council, British Council, City of Zurich, Erna and Curt Burgauer Stiftung, Ernst Göhner Stiftung, Film London Artists Moving Image Network (FLAMIN), Georges and Jenny Bloch Stiftung, George Foundation, Henry Moore Foundation, Ministry of Culture Switzerland, Pro Helvetia Swiss Arts Council, Stanley Thomas Johnson Foundation, University of Westminster, Wellcome Trust
SPECIAL THANKS
Jumana Emil Abboud, Sylvia Alberton, Oreet Ashery, Anna Barseghian & Stefan Kristensen, Anita Beckers, Lorenzo Bruni, Philippe Charpentier, Yann Chataigné, Anna Colin, Celine Condorelli, Benjamin Cook, Sveva D’Antonio, Ekaterina Degot, Bassam El Baroni, Marcia Farquhar, Andreas Fiedler, Berit Fischer, Stephen Foster, Katya Garcia Anton, Sønke Gau, Joseph Gaylard, Laure Genillard, Patrick Gosatti, Katarina Gregos, Corrado Gugliotta, Margherita Huntley, Russel Hlongwane, Andrew Ingall, Mia Jankowicz, Mikhail Karikis, Lara Khaldi, Bénédicte le Pimpec, Catalina Lozano, Felicity Lunn, Ruth Maclennan, Peter Makarube, Bettina Malcomess, Lindiwe Matshikiza, Alex Mor, Jack Persekian, Emily Pethick, Hans-Rudolf Reust, David Riff, Frances Rifkin, José Roca, Monica Ross, Eva Rowson, Christoph Schenker, Katharina Schlieben, Hebba Sherif, Samora Sekhukhune, Cherry Smyth, Marie-Claude Stobart, Noah Stolz, Alexia Tala, Anne Tallentire, Gilane Tawadros, Andrea Thal, Isaline Vuille, Amy Watson, Ian White, Sarah Zürcher, Tirdad Zolghadr – and many more.