Auriea Harvey (BE/US)

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Born in 1971 in Indianapolis, IN, USA

1989 New York City, USA

1999 Ghent, Belgium

2019 Resides and works in Rome, Italy ∞

Museum Survey

2024My Veins Are The Wires, My Body Is Your Keyboard, Museum of the Moving Image, New York, NY, USA

Biennials

2022Fantasmagoriana, LIAF Lofoten International Art Biennial, Kabelvåg, Norway

Solo exhibitions

2027City of Refuge, Gray Area, San Francisco, CA, USA 2026Edmonia Triumphalis, solo presentation within Chisel & Razor, Act II — The Artistic Legacies of Edmonia and Samuel Lewis, Tinworks, Bozeman, MT, USA Ready to Die, HEFT Gallery, New York, NY, USA 2025(This room is a sculpture called) PROPHECY, Arebyte Gallery, London, UK 2024The Unanswered Question, bitforms Gallery, New York, NY, USA 2023The world we see with our eyes is just a reflection of a reality that we cannot quite grasp., Upstream Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 2022Gray Matter, Feral File, Online 2021👁, Art Mûr, Montreal, Canada Year Zero, bitforms Gallery, New York, NY, USA

Selected group exhibitions

2027Worldbuilding III, Canyon, New York, NY, USA 2026artport: A History of Internet Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, USA New Rituals [for the End of the World], HEK (Haus der Elektronischen Künste), Basel, Switzerland Old Master, Wouters Gallery, Brussels, Belgium 3 Blockchains, One collection, Francisco Carolinum, Linz, Austria Oracle Machines, The Computer Arts Society, BCS Moorgate, London, UK Synthetic Histories, Museum Henderik Andersen, Rome, Italy Websites! Websites! Websites!, Rhizome, New York, NY, USA 2025Choose Your Filter, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany Code Switch: Distributing Blackness, Reprogramming Internet Art, MOCAD (curated by The Kitchen, NYC), Detroit, MI, USA Groundwork, HEFT Gallery, New York, NY, USA Report from Nori Mountain, Smilers, New York, NY, USA Subject to Change, Gazelli Art House, London, UK Una, Doppia, Collectiva, CUBO Unipol, Bologna, Italy UNAROMA, MACRO Museum, Rome, Italy 2024Apophenia, Interruptions: Artists and Artificial Intelligence at Work, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France Guardians, Wouters Gallery, Brussels, Belgium Seeing Sound, Pratt Exhibitions, New York, NY, USA Stories of the Sea, Currier Museum, Manchester, NH, USA 2023Catalyst, Epoch Gallery x Honor Fraser Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA and Online FEMBOT, The Hole, New York, NY, USA Is this real? L'arte nell'epoca della game engine culture, Fondazione Arti Visive, Modena, Italy REFIGURED, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, USA Simulacrum, Poortersloge, Bruges, Belgium 2022Digital Combines, bitforms Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA Future Bodies, Upstream Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 2021Liminal Territories, pal project, Paris, France Curator Machine, SMAK, Ghent, Belgium NFTism - No Fear in Trying, Unit Gallery, London, England Pieces of Me, TRANSFER Gallery, Online Porta Portese, Spazio Menza, Rome, Italy So Excited, Steve Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA Synthetic Corpo-Reality, MEET Digital Culture Center, Milan, Italy and Online 2019Cricoterie: VR + Sculpture, Foksal Gallery, Warsaw, Poland Death Has a Small Voice, Project Project Gallery, Omaha, NE, USA Playmode, MAAT Museum, Lisbon, Portugal Tadeusz Kantor: Où sont les neiges d'antan, Museum Tinguely, Basel, Switzerland The Art Happens Here: Net Art's Archival Poetics, New Museum, New York, NY, USA The Coming World: Ecology as New Politics 2030-2100, Garage Museum, Moscow, Russia 2018VIDEOGAMES: Design/Play/Disrupt, V&A (Victoria and Albert Museum), London and Dundee, UK 2017Cricoterie VR, Palace of Culture and Science, Studio Theater, Warsaw, Poland GLOBALE: Games and Politics, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany 2016L.O.C.K., Triennale Museum, Milan, Italy 2010The Art History of Games, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA, USA 2007Entropy8Zuper! Retrospective and The Endless Forest ABIOGENESIS, Inmerso cyberlounge, Museo Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico 2006Realtime Art Manifesto (Mediaterra Festival), Mediaterra Festival, Athens, Greece 2001010101: Art in Technological Times, SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA, USA and Online Korea Web Art Festival: Alone Together, (Seoul), Seoul, South Korea and Online The Artist as Expert (Make World Festival), Lothringer13 Gallery, Munich, Germany 2000Her Boyfriend Came Back from the War, The Last Real Net Art Museum, Online 1999-2006Wirefire performances, Online (every Thursday at midnight, Belgium)

Selected Collections

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, USA ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, Germany Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, USA KADIST, San Francisco, CA, USA Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo, NY, USA Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, USA and Online The Kramlich Collection, Napa Valley, CA, USA Rf.C Art Collection Ragnar Digital Collection Rhizome.org / Net ArtBase Anthology, Online

Residencies, Fellowships & Awards

2026Serpentine Future Art Ecosystems Fellowship, London, UK Onassis ONX Fellowship, New York, NY, USA & Athens, Greece 2025VIA Art Fund Artistic Production Grant Award, New York, NY, USA 2024Tinworks Art Artist Residency, Bozeman, MT, USA 2022Crystal Bridges/The Momentary, Artist in Residence Program, Bentonville, AR, USA 2021Digital Artist Residency, Gazelli Art House, London, UK, and Online 2017Künstlerinnenpreis NRW, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany Rome Prize, Belgian Academy Residency, Rome, Italy 2014Independent Games Festival Nuovo Award, San Francisco, CA, USA 2011Flanders Audio-Visual Fund, Individual Artist Grant, Brussels, Belgium 2006Creative Capital Award, Digital Media, New York, NY, USA 1999SFMOMA Prize for Excellence in Online Art, San Francisco, CA, USA 1998Jerome Foundation Grant, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, USA 1997New York Foundation For the Arts Artist Fellowship, Digital Art, New York, NY, USA 1997/98Webby Award, Net Art (the first two ever given), San Francisco, CA, USA and Online 1995Members Choice Selection: Emerging Artists at A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY, USA

Selected Art Fairs

2025UNTITLED Art Miami — Artist Spotlight (curated by Petra Cortright), HEFT Gallery 2024ArtDubai Digital, 1of1 Matter & Data, Art Basel — Digital Art Mile, OBJKT.com UNTITLED Art Miami, bitforms Gallery 2023Singapore Art Fair, Gazelli Art House 2022NADA Art Fair NY, bitforms Gallery UNTITLED Art Miami, bitforms Gallery 2021Humans + Machines: NFTs and the Ever-Evolving World of Art (Tezos x Art Basel Miami), Tezos The Unbody (Frieze NY Art Fair), PPOW Gallery UNTITLED Art Miami, bitforms Gallery

Selected Publications

Whitney Museum of American Art / Yale University Press, artport: A History of Internet Art, Christiane Paul (ed.), 2026 KADIST, Autonomous Agents, Artists on Human-Machine Interaction, 2026 U of Chicago Press, Photo Obscura: The Photographic in Post Photography, Natasha Chuk, 2025 Phaidon Press, The Great Women Sculptors, 2024 TASCHEN, On NFTs, 2024 Computer History Museum, Oral History of Auriea Harvey, 2023 Jordan Magnuson, Game Poems: Videogame Design as Lyric Practice, 2023 Astrid Ensslin, Literary Gaming, 2023 Frank Lantz, The Beauty of Games, 2023 Christiane Paul, World of Art, Digital Art, Thames & Hudson, 2015, 2023 Barbara London Calling Podcast: Interview with Auriea Harvey, S 2, Ep 1, 2021

Selected Press

J. Cabelle Ahn, “Group show explores where technology meets spirituality and folklore”, The Art Newspaper, 2026 Refresh Art, “A Modern Prophecy, Auriea Harvey’s Poetic Resistance at Arebyte”, 2025 Alex Estorick, “1000 Words: Auriea Harvey & Michael Samyn on Faith and Technology”, Artforum, 2025 Travis Diehl, “Digital Art as Sultry Love Stories, Without Neat Endings”, The New York Times, 2024 Thomas Patier, “Critics Pick: Auriea Harvey”, Artforum, 2024 Francesca Aton, “Auriea Harvey Has Been Breaking the Internet for Three Decades”, ARTnews, 2024 Cassie Packard, “The Digital Media Experiments of Auriea Harvey”, Frieze Magazine, 2024 Emann Odufu, “Auriea Harvey and the Future of Digital Sculpture”, Right+Click Save Magazine, 2022 Brian Droitcoeur, “Auriea Harvey x Jacolby Satterwhite”, Outland.art, 2022 Charlotte Kent, “Auriea Harvey, An artist at the forefront of new technologies”, BOMB Magazine, 2021

Selected Videos of Shows and Talks

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Education & Training

2026Digital Stone Project, Gramolazzo, Italy 2021Clay modeling and sculpture design, Brian Booth Craig, Rome, Italy 2013Drawing Intensive, Studio Escalier/The Louvre, Paris, France 2002-2004Design Research Fellowship, Jan van Eyck Academy, Maastricht, the Netherlands 1989-1993BFA Sculpture, Parsons School of Design, New York City, NY, USA

Professional Experience

2017-2024W3 Professor of Games, Kunsthochschule Kassel, University of Kassel, Germany 2017,2019-2020IULM, Game Design MFA, Experimental 3D, Milan, Italy 2016-2017Parsons Paris, Drawing, Imaging, 3D, Paris, France 2011,2013,2015notgames Festival, co-founder, curator and organizer, Cologne Game Lab, Germany 2003-2015Tale of Tales, videogame development studio, co-owner, director, Ghent, Belgium