ARTISTS・VENUES

Born in Switzerland in 1973 and lives and works between Lisbon and London.

Uriel Orlow is an artist with a diasporic background.[1] His practice is research-driven, process-oriented and often in dialogue with other disciplines and people. Projects engage with residues of colonialism, social and ecological justice, forms of haunting and plants as political actors. Working across installation, photography, film, drawing, sound and gardens his works bring different image-regimes and narrative modes into correspondence.
Orlow’s work has been presented at major international survey exhibitions including at the 61st and 54th Venice Biennale, Manifesta 9 and 12, as well as at biennials in Berlin, Dakar, Kochi, Taipei, Sharjah, Moscow, Kathmandu, Guatemala and elsewhere and at museums and galleries in London, Paris, New York, Lisbon, Zurich, Chicago, Athens, Madrid, Cairo, Istanbul, Mexico-City, Bejing, Toronto, Melbourne, New Delhi and elsewhere.
In 2023 he received the Swiss Grand Prix for Art / Prix Meret Oppenheim and in 2017 he received the Sharjah Biennial Prize.
He teaches at University of Westminster London and University of the Arts Basel.