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Biography

Agnieszka Kurant (Łódź, Poland, 1978) is an artist whose work investigates collective and nonhuman intelligences (from microbes to AI), transformations of the human, the future of labour and creativity, and exploitations within digital capitalism.

She is the recipient of the 2022 Google AMI Award; 2020 LACMA A+T Award; 2019 Frontier Art Prize; and the 2017-18 Pollock-Krasner Grant Award. In 2024 she was shortlisted for the Sigg Art Prize.

Her recent solo exhibitions include Risk Landscape, Mudam, Luxembourg (2024), Uncomputables, Kunstverein Hannover, Germany (2023); Errorism, Kunsthal Gent, Belgium (2023); and Crowd Crystal, Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy (2021-23).

Agnieszka Kurant’s permanent public commission The End of Signature was launched in 2022 at the MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA, USA.

Past solo exhibitions and projects include a commission for the façade of the Guggenheim Museum, New York (2015); exformation, a solo exhibition at Sculpture Center, New York (2013); and the Polish Pavilion at the 12th Venice Biennale of Architecture with Aleksandrą Wasilkowska (2010). 

Her work was featured in exhibitions at the Bonner Kunstverein, Germany; CAPC Bordeaux, France; Centre Pompidou, Paris; De Young Museum, San Francisco; EMMA Museum, Helsinki; GAMeC, Bergamo; Grazer Kunstverein, Austria; Gropius Bau, Berlin; Guggenheim Bilbao, Spain; Guggenheim Museum, New York; Kunsthalle Wien, Austria; Louisiana Museum, Denmark; MOCA Toronto; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Munch Museum, Oslo; Palais de Tokyo, Paris; SFMOMA, San Francisco; Swiss Institute, New York; The Kitchen, New York; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Triennale di Milano, Italy; Whitechapel Art Gallery, London; Witte de With, Rotterdam; and ZKM, Karlsruhe; as well as at the Biennale of Sydney, Cleveland Triennial, Frieze Projects, Gwangju Biennale, Istanbul Biennial, and Performa Biennial.

Agnieszka Kurant was artist in residence at the Moody Center at Rice University, Houston (2023) and Art Explora, Paris (2022); an Artist Fellow at the Berggruen Institute (2019-21); a visiting artist at MIT CAST (2018-2019); and held a fellowship at the Smithsonian Institute (2018).