| 1982 | Born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany |
| 2004 |
BA Architecture, Trinity College, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England |
| 2008 | AA Diploma, Architectural Association, London, England |
| 2012 |
Master of Architecture II, The Cooper Union, New York, NY |
| 2022 | PhD, Royal College of Art, London, England |
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Lives and works in London, England |
Solo Exhibitions
| 2023 |
NOX, LAS Art Foundation, Berlin, Germany |
| 2022 |
Nepenthe (Summer Palace Ruins), QUAD, Derby, England Post-Sinofuturism, ZiWu The Bund, Shanghai, China |
| 2021 |
TRI_SOLO: Tim Crowley, Nik Kosmas and Lawrence Lek, BANK/MABSOCIETY, Shanghai, China |
| 2019 |
Ghostwriter, Cursor Gallery, Center for Contemporary Arts Prague, Prague, Czech Republic Farsight Freeport, HEK Haus der Elektronischen Künste, Basel, Switzerland Nøtel, Urbane Künste Ruhr, Essen, Germany AIDOL, Sadie Coles HQ, Kingly Street, London, England |
| 2018 |
Nøtel, Stroom Den Haag, The Hague, The Netherlands Nøtel, arebyte Gallery, London, England 2065, chi K11 art space, Hong Kong |
Group Exhibitions
| 2023 |
HOPE, MUSEION, Bolzano, Italy Fotograf Festival – hypertension23, National Gallery Prague, Prague, Czech Republic Editing Art: The Wanderer in Virtual Space, CAFA Central Academy of Fine Art, Beijing, China (online) Theta’s World, X Museum Virtual, Beijing, China, online OPEN SYSTEMS 1_OPEN WORLDS, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore, online FOUNDATION: A Web3 Media Art Festival, Videotage, Hong Kong |
| 2022 |
The Pieces I Am, UCCA Center for Contemporary Art, UCCA Edge, Shanghai, China FUTURES PAST, arebyte Gallery, London, England “I Am Not A Robot”. On the Borders of The Singularity,Ludwig Museum – Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest, Hungary Perfect Partner in the Near Future, Yuelai Art Museum, Chongqing, China Meta.space: Visions of Space, Francisco Carolinum, Linz, Austria Future – Into the Open, 27th Rohkunstbau, Altdöbern, Germany Cloud Walkers, Leeum Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea Ultra Unreal, MCA Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia Worldbuilding: Gaming & Art, 15th Anniversary Exhibition of Julia Stoschek Collection, Julia Stoschek Collection,Düsseldorf, Germany, curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist (touring) Future Shock, 180 The Strand, London, England Symbiosis - Digital Creativity and Ecological Civilization, 1st Beijing Art Biennale, Beijing, China Digital Resonance, G.MAP Gwangju Media Art Platform, Gwangju, South Korea Testament, Goldsmiths CCA, London, England |
| 2021 |
British Art Show 9, Hayward Gallery Touring, Various Locations, England and Scotland (touring) Feeling the Stones, 1st Diriyah Biennale, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Future Proof, Refresh.bzh, Paimpol Art Club, Brittany, France Future Media Art Festival, C-LAB Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab, Taipei, Taiwan In The Year of The Metal Ox, donaufestival, Krems, Austria Chronicles of the Future Superheroes, Kunsthalle Bega, Romania Iskra Delta, 34th Ljubljana Biennale of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana, Slovenia Radical Gaming - Immersion Simulation Subversion, HEK Haus der Elektronischen Künste, Basel, Switzerland Open?, Russian Pavilion at the 17th Venice Architecture Biennale, Venice, Italy AI: More than Human, World Museum Liverpool, Liverpool, England; AI: More than Human, Fernán Gómez, Madrid, Spain (touring) Extensions Vol III. Monstrous Machines, ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Denmark and Radar Contemporary, online Pieces of Me, Transfer Gallery, online Am I a Human to You?, Art Museum KUBE, Ålesund, Norway In-Between Days: Video from the Guggenheim Collections, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York NY, USA Summer Exhibition 2020, RA Royal Academy of Arts, London, England |
| 2020 |
The Sea is Glowing, Exportdrvo, Rijeka, Croatia Videotage Media Art Collection: Paranormal, HKCEC Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong The Future of Silence: When Your Tongue Vanishes, Nam June Paik Art Centre, Seoul, South Korea Uncanny Valley: Being Human in the Age of AI, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco | de Young Legion of Honor, San Francisco CA, USA E2E (End to End), transmediale 2020, Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Berlin, Germany |
| 2019 |
Gameplay. Video Games Culture, CCCB Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain Every Step in the Right Direction, Singapore Biennale 2019, Singapore 24/7, Somerset House, London, England TRANSFORMER: A Rebirth of Wonder, 180 The Strand, London, England Cosmologic Arrows, Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden Complete Technology, MoCA Museum of Contemporary Art Busan, Busan, South Korea Serious Game, HOW Art Museum, Shanghai, China Future Cities: Technopolis and Everyday Life, CFCCA Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art, Manchester The Coming World: Ecology as the New Politics 2030-2100, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia An Opera for Animals, RAM Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai, China Nøtel, Unlimited, Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland Game of Drones. Of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, Zeppelin Museum Friedrichshafen, Friedrichshafen, Germany FTSE (Farsight Stock Exchange), Bold Tendencies, Peckham Multi-Storey Car Park, London, England AI:More Than Human, The Curve, Barbican Centre, London, England (touring) Free Panorama, Shenzhen New Media Art Festival, Pingshan Cultural Center Exhibition Gallery, Shenzhen, China Forging the Gods, Transfer Gallery, New York NY, USA The New Human Agenda, Akbank Sanat, Istanbul, Turkey An Opera for Animals, Para Site, Hong Kong Artificial Landscape, in collaboration with Videotage, SOGO Causeway Bay, Hong Kong |
| 2018 |
artapes. Low Form, MAXXI Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo, Rome, Italy ARTBOTS, Patchlab Digital Art Festival, Krakow, Poland Offline Browser, The 6th Taiwan International Video Art Exhibition 2018, Taipei, Taiwan Open Codes. The World as a Field of Data, ZKM | Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany Fetch and Deliver (Holen und Bringen), Werkleitz Festival 2018: Holen und Bringen, Halle (Saale), Germany Rivers of Emotion, Bodies of Ore, Kunsthall Trondheim, Trondheim, Norway Ecology, Bold Tendencies, Peckham Multi-Storey Car Park, London, England Quest-For-Meaning Bureau The Culture of a Good Life, KUNSTSÆLE Berlin, Berlin, Germany Head Heap Heat, ICA Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore, Singapore Rendered Cities, apexart, New York, NY Uncanny Valleys of a Possible Future, CTM 2018: Turmoil, Kunstraum Kreuzberg / Bethanien, Berlin, Germany |
| 2017 |
A Better Version of You, Artsonje Center, Seoul, South Korea Play Station, Art Night London, with Whitechapel Gallery, London, England 3Drifts, ASAKUSA, Tokyo, Japan HyperPavilion, Arsenale Nord, Venice, Italy Geomancer, Neither One Thing Or Another, Jerwood/FVU Awards, Jerwood Space, London, England The New Normal, UCCA Ullens Centre for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China Hybrid Layers, ZKM | Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany Offshore: Artists explore the sea, Maritime Museum, Hull, England All Channels Open, Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge, England Hua Wei (with Kode9 / Hyperdub), Ø, Corsica Studios, London, England |
| 2016 |
Glasgow International, Director's Programme, Tramway, Glasgow, Scotland SeMA Mediacity Seoul Biennial, SeMA Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea Missed Connections, Julia Stoschek Collection, Dusseldorf, Germany Vordemburge-Gildewart Award, Annely Juda Fine Art, London, England Maybe your Lens is Scratched?, Slate Projects, London, England Europa, Mon Amour (2016 Brexit Edition), Open Source Festival, London, England Overseas (360 Video), This is Public Space, UP Projects, London, England New Realities, Espacio Fundación Telefónica, Lima, Peru Game Video / Art, Triennale di Milano: 21st Century. Design After Design, IULM, Milan, Italy Secret Surface, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany |
| 2015 |
Software, Hard Problem, Cubitt Gallery, London, England The Uncanny Valley, Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge, England The Labour of Sound in a World of Debt, Vierte Welt, Berlin, Germany Faith Dollars, Taxfree Imagination & Uptown Bliss, Assembly Point, London, England Equalizer.Space, The Wrong, Biennial for Online Art (with Channel Normal) Dalston, Mon Amour, Open Source Festival, London, England H0ST, Galleri Monitor, Göthenburg, Sweden Dazed Emerging Artist Award, RA Royal Academy of Arts, London, England Black Box Formula, Curating Contemporary Art Exhibition, RCA Royal College of Art, London, England |
| 2014 |
Sky Line, Digital Commission, supported by Outset England, Art Licks Weekend, London England Tomb, Shrine, Survey-Maker, Spare Part..., Enclave, London, England I/P 1, Project/Number, London, England Tabularium, Slopes, Melbourne, Australia BitRates, Shiraz Artist House, Shiraz, Iran Re:presence, Sto Werkstatt, London, England SEIZE International, KÉK The Hungarian Contemporary Architecture Centre, Budapest, Hungary Raytracer, The White Building, London, England Delirious New Wick, V&A Victoria & Albert Museum, London, England Snow Falling in a Temple, Twice, POST2, La Scatola, online Residency Continental Drift OST, Channel Normal, online Residency Prosthetic Aesthetics, Werkraum Bregenzerwald, Andelsbuch, Switzerland |
| 2013 |
Penthouse 4C, Hack the Barbican, Barbican Centre, London, England Night Loops, Legion TV, London, England Bonus Levels: A Collective Tower, Art Licks Weekend, The White Building, London, England The Wrong, Biennial for Online Art, São Paulo, Brazil ERROR 415, ArtSlant, San Francisco, CA, USA Pyramid Schemes, The White Building, London, England Glass Idols, V&A Victoria & Albert Museum, London, England Bring Your Own Beamer, SPACE, London, England Exophonic 1, Watermans – West London’s Arts Centre, London, England Designers in Residence 2012, Design Museum, London, England Art and Social Activism, ChaShaMa Foundation, New York, NY Assembly, Triangle Space, Chelsea College of Arts, London, England Illuminations, Coldharbour Gallery, London, England |
Screenings
| 2023 |
Geomancer and AIDOL at Cantopop Icons, Metrograph, New York NY, USA Theta at St. Moritz Art Film Festival, St Moritz, Switzerland, 1 September Theta and AIDOL at Prismatic Ground Film Festival, Anthology Film Archives and Light Industry, New York NY, USA, 3 – 7 May Theta at New Cinema Days, Abandon Normal Devices, Manchester, England, 20 April Sinofuturism (1839–2046 AD) and Geomancer at Techno Sapiens, M+, Hong Kong, 3 March and 18 March Theta at 52nd IFFR International Film Festival Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 25 January – 5 February |
| 2022 | Temple Lily at Counter Encounters, Tate Modern, London, England, 29 October
AIDOL at Cineteca, Madrid, Spain, 26 February Theta at Asia Forum, Fondazione Querini Stampalia, Venice, Italy, 23 April |
| 2021 |
AIDOL at donaufestival, Krems, Austria, 01 – 10 October AIDOL at Oslo Internasjonale Teaterfestival, Blackbox Theatre, Oslo AIDOL and Geomancer at State of Motion 2021: [Alternate/Opt] Realities, Asia Film Archive, Singapore, 30 January – 06 February |
| 2020 |
AIDOL at Hainan Island International Film Festival, Hainan, China, 05 – 12 December AIDOL at The AI Party Pep Rally, Bombina Bombast, Hypnos Theatre, Malmö, Sweden, 02 December AIDOL at SoundTrack_Cologne17, SoundTrack_Cologne, Cologne, Germany, 14 – 17 October AIDOL at Unsound Festival, Kraków, Poland, October 10, online Geomancer at MIRA Festival, IDEAL Digital Arts Center, Barcelona, Spain, 1 – 30 September Sinofuturism (1839-2046 AD) at China, as the Concept, OCAT Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China, August 8 AIDOL, CCCB Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, August 6 2065 at Videotage Media Art Collection: Paranormal, HKCEC Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong, 20 March Time Machine at DJ Spooky, with Ronald Guttman, Tony Torn, and Julie Atlas Muz: Performances Inspired by Alfred Jarry, The Morgan Library & Museum, New York NY, USA, 28 February AIDOL at E2E (End to End), transmediale 2020, Volksbühne Berlin, Berlin, Germany, 28 January – 01 February AIDOL at 49th IFFR International Film Festival Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 22 January – 02 February |
| 2019 |
Geomancer at To Other Shores: On Techno-Sinofuturism, AI Artist Bots and New Silk Roads, ACUD Macht Neu, Berlin, Germany, 30 November Geomancer at MUTEK Montréal, Montréal, Canada, 18 – 25 August AIDOL at MIEFF Moscow International Experimental Film Festival, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia, 10 July Geomancer at Present Futures Glasgow, CCA Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow, Scotland, 08 – 09 June Geomancer at Stanley, Meet Alexa: AI and Filmmaking in the Flesh, BFI, London, 27 April Sinofuturism (1839–2046 AD) at Norient Musikfilm Festival, Bern / Lausanne / St. Gallen, Switzerland |
| 2018 |
2065; Bonus Levels - Chapter 2: Delirious New Wick – Walkthrough at Clockenflap, Hong Kong, China Geomancer at ArtReview Bar, London, England Geomancer atKolkata Shorts International Film Festival, Hotel Monotel, Kolkata, India Pyramid Schemes; Play Station (Farsight Corporate Trailer); Geomancer in Artists Film Club, ICA Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, England Geomancer in Dreaming Androids, IFFR International Film Festival Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands Geomancer; Sinofuturism at FACT Foundation for Art & Creative Technology, Liverpool, England IAM Internet Age Media, Barcelona, Spain Sinofuturism (1839 – 2046 AD) at A4, Bratislava, Slovakia |
| 2017 |
Geomancer at Jerwood/FVU, London, England (touring to: CCA Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow, Scotland; HOME, Manchester, England; Phoenix, Leicester, England; Phoenix, Exeter, England; Tyneside Cinema, Newcastle, England; Arnolfini, Bristol, England) Viewfinder: ON AIR, with videoclub UK & British Council, West Bund Art Fair, Chronus Art Center, Shanghai, China Welcome to Play Station; Farsight Corporate Promo in Both Sides Now 4, with videoclub UK & Videotage Hong Kong, HOME, Manchester, England Geomancer in SummerLab, LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial, Gijón, Spain Sky Line in Unsettle, in collaboration with LUX Moving Image and Daata Editions, StudioRCA, London, England CitizensFive, programmed by Alexander Burenkov, Art Athina, Athens, Greece Postcapitalist Desire, programmed by roaming projects, Platform, London, England Dark Water, programmed by Tai Shani & A – Z, CGP Dilston Grove, London, England GEGENkino Film Festival, Leipzig, Germany Nocturnal City, programmed by Estela Oliva, Somerset House, London, England |
| 2016 |
Europa, Mon Amour (2016 Brexit Edition) in Projections, New York Film Festival 2016, New York, NY Kasseler Dokumentarfilm und Videofest, Kassel, Germany Internationale Kurzfilmtage, Winterthur, Switzerland Long Progress Bar, Lighthouse, Brighton, England ICA Artist Film Biennial, ICA Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, England; Phoenix Cinema, Leicester, England; Spike Island, Bristol, England; Tramway, Glasgow, Scotland Tableaux, Assembly Point, London, England Speeding & Braking: Navigating Acceleration, Goldsmiths College, London, England Heterotopia of Rules, LEAP Magazine, West Bund Art Fair, Shanghai, China Visions in the Nunnery, Bow Arts, London, England Public Art Screens, Stavanger, Norway |
| 2015 | Tenderflix Artist Video Award, ICA Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, England |
Performances
| 2023 |
Nepenthe (Live), Prismatic Ground Film Festival, Chaos Computer, New York NY, USA, 3 May |
| 2022 |
Hyperdub Presents, Corsica Studios, London, England, 2 June Polysonic Worlds: Lawrence Lek & Evan Ifekoya, New Mystics,Somerset House, London, England, 26 May Nepenthe (Live), Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art, London, England, 2 April Feature, Cafe OTO, London, England, 5 February |
| 2020 | AIDOL (Live), Unsound Festival, Kraków, Poland, October 10, online
Eastern Margins Ceremony: Lawrence Lek, yeule & Raw2.2, OHYUNG, The Yard Theatre, London, England, May 17, online |
| 2019 |
Image Behaviour: Keiken / Lawrence Lek + Clifford Sage, ICA Institute of Contemporary Art London, London, England, 15 November ASSEMBLY: Lawrence Lek, Seth Scott & Robin Simpson, Somerset House Studios, London, England, curated by Christian Marclay, 9 November Eastern Margins Presents, Cafe OTO, London, England, 18 June |
| 2017 |
Live & Ambient, with Clifford Sage, Lost Senses, Guest Projects, London, England Heliotones, with Oliver Coates, Borealis Festival, Bergen, Norway |
| 2016 |
Nøtel, with Kode9, ICA Institute of Contemporary Arts, London; Sonar, Barcelona, Spain; Moogfest, Durham, NC; Unsound Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia Sunrise/Sunset, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany |
| 2015 |
Unreal Estate, with Oliver Coates, 3hd Festival, HAU2, Berlin, Germany; Kammer Klang, Cafe OTO, London, England Uncanny Halloween, Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge, England Performance as Process, Chelsea College of Art, London, England |
| 2014 |
Syndrome, FACT Foundation for Art & Creative Technology, Liverpool, England Bodyscape, Parasol unit foundation for contemporary art, London, England |
Talks
| 2023 |
Ways of Worlding, The Berlage Center for Advanced Studies, Delft, The Netherlands, 13 April |
| 2022 |
Speculative Existence: Human, Experiences, and Technology of the Future, Museum MACAN, Jakarta, Indonesia, 17 September Theta: Future Shock, Reference Point, 180 The Strand, London, England, 28 July Urgency of the Arts, The Royal College of Art, London, England, 2 February |
| 2021 |
What Are We Building?, MIT Wasserman Forum online, 06 April – 10 April |
| 2020 |
Artist Talk: Lawrence Lek (2020 Sarah Lee Elson International Artist-in-Residence), Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton NJ, USA, 5 November First-Person (with Alex Quicho), Power Station of Art, Shanghai, China, 2 October Gray Area Festival 2020: Radical Simulation, Gray Area, San Francisco CA, USA, 23 September |
| 2019 |
AIDOL: Screening & Talk with Steve Goodman, ALL, Shanghai, China Worldbuilding for Non-Humans. Artist talk by Lawrence Lek, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia, 14 July Technology and its Intersections: Viewing Scenarios and other Platforms, ICA Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, England, 13 March |
| 2017 |
Posthuman Worlds, Artist Talk, CAC x On-AIR Programme. Chronus Art Center, Shanghai, China Geomancer: Screening, & Talk with Anna Greenspan & Steve Goodman, ALL, Shanghai, China The Only Path to Tomorrow. Symposium as part of Zach Blas’ exhibition Contra-Internet, Gasworks, London, England Art Night 2017: Building Futures: Collecting New Media, with Fatos Ustek, Bishopsgate Institute, London, England Creative AI: Film in the Age of Non-Human Authors, The Photographer’s Gallery, London, England The New Normal: In conversation with Jacob Dreyer, UCCA, Beijing, China Sinofuturism: A Conspiracy Theory? With Anna Greenspan & Steve Goodman, NYU Shanghai, Shanghai, China Sonic Fictions: With Alvin Li & Steve Goodman, UCCA, Beijing, China The Museum as Battlefield, Contemporary Art Society Annual Talk, British Museum, London, England In conversation with Steve Goodman for Jerwood/FVU Awards, RCA Royal College of Art, London, England Resonate Festival, Kinoteka, Belgrade, Serbia |
| 2016 |
Missed Connections (talk with Devin Kenny, Lawrence Lek, Hito Steyerl, Jennifer Chan, moderated by Melissa Gronlund, Julia Stoschek Collection, Dusseldorf, Germany In conversation with Stephanie Bailey & Sophia Al-Maria, Frieze Art Fair, London, England Sinofuturism (1839 – 2046 AD), Resonance FM / Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge, England Digital Narratives (with Karen Di Franco & Morgan Quaintance), Whitechapel Gallery, London, England Behind the Show: Notel, Sonar by Day, Barcelona, Spain |
| 2015 |
D&AD Talks, Awakening Tech, Institute of Education, London, England OneDotZero dotdotdot Talk Series, Protein Studios, London, England Studio Visit (with Morgan Quaintance & Cecile B. Evans), Resonance FM, UK Bonus Levels, RCA Fine Art Lecture Series, RCA Royal College of Art, London, England Design Interactions - Study Day, RCA Royal College of Art, London, England Object as Measure, Artist Talk, Chelsea College of Art, London, England |
| 2014 | Speculative Sculpture, Artist Talk, Trinity College, Cambridge, England |
Awards & Residencies
| 2023 |
Best Movie, St. Moritz Art Film Festival, St. Moritz, Switzerland |
| 2021 |
4th VH AWARD Grand Prix, Hyundai Motor Group, Seoul, South Korea |
| 2020 | Sarah Lee Elson, Class of 1984, International Artist-in-Residence Program, Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton NJ, USA |
| 2017 |
Jerwood / Film & Video Umbrella Award, London, England Stavros Niarchos Foundation Machine Learning PhD Scholarship, RCA Royal College of Art, London, England Outset Young Production Fund for Art Night, London, England China Connections Through Culture Grant, British Council, England Arts Council England, Grants for the Arts for Virtual Reality Development, England |
| 2016 |
VG Award, Vordemburge-Gildewart Foundation, Rapperswil, Switzerland Artist-in-Residence, Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge, England MVWorks Artist Incubator Grant, Makerversity, Somerset House, London, England |
| 2015 |
Dazed Emerging Artist Award, RA Royal Academy of Arts, London, England Artist-in-Residence, Performance as Process, Delfina Foundation, London, England Tenderflix Artist Video Award, Tenderpixel, ICA Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, England |
| 2014 |
Artist International Development Fund, Arts Council England, England Outset England Artist Project Fund for Art Licks Weekend Digital Commission, England |
| 2013 |
Artist-in-Residence, Hack the Barbican, Barbican Centre, London, England |
| 2012 |
Designer-in-Residence, Design Museum, London, England |
Public Collections
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British Council, London, England Guggenheim Museums and Foundation, New York NY, USA / Venice, Italy / Bilbao, Spain / Abu Dhabi, UAE M+ Museum, Hong Kong MOCA Museum of Contemporary Art, Busan, South Korea Museum of London, London, England Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton NJ, USA Rubell Family Collection, Miami FL, USA Singapore Art Museum, Singapore |