RAFAEL LOZANO-HEMMER (b. 1972, Mexico City, Mexico) lives and works in Montreal, Canada and Madrid, Spain.

Rafael Lozano-Hemmer creates large-scale interactive installations in public spaces, usually deploying new technologies and custom-made physical interfaces. Using robotics, projections, sound, the Internet and cell phone links, sensors and other devices, his installations aim to provide "temporary anti-monuments for alien agency."

His work has been commissioned for events such as the Millennium Celebrations, Mexico City (1999); the Cultural Capital of Europe, Rotterdam (2001); the United Nations' World Summit of Cities, Lyon, France (2003); the opening of the Yamaguchi Centre for Art and Media, Japan (2003); and the Expansion of the European Union, Dublin (2004). Lozano-Hemmer’s work has also been exhibited the Sydney Biennale; the Liverpool Biennial; the Shanghai Biennial; the Istanbul Biennial; and the Havana Biennial. Most recently, he represented Mexico in its first official participation at the Venice Biennale (2007).

Lozano-Hemmer is represented by Galeria OMR in Mexico, bitforms gallery in New York, Galerie Guy Bärtschi in Geneva and Haunch of Venison, in London.

www.lozano-hemmer.com
www.galeriaomr.com
www.bitforms.com
www.bartschi.ch