Gediminas Urbonas is an artist, professor at MIT Program in Art, Culture, and Technology, and co-founder (with Nomeda Urbonas) of Urbonas Studio, an interdisciplinary research practice. Urbonases have exhibited internationally, including the São Paulo, Berlin, Moscow, Lyon, Gwangju, Busan, Taipei, Kaunas, and Helsinki biennales, Folkestone Triennial – and Manifesta and Documenta exhibitions – among others, including solo shows at the Venice Biennale, MACBA in Barcelona, and National Gallery of Art in Vilnius. Their work was awarded a number of grants and awards, including the Lithuanian National Prize (2007); a Prize for the Best International Artist at the Gwangju Biennale (2006) and the Prize for the national pavilion at the Venice Biennale (2007). They were also nominated for the Nam June Paik Award in 2012. Urbonases co-curated the Swamp School at the 16th Venice Architecture Biennale 2018. Their co-edited volume Swamps and the New Imagination: On the Future of Cohabitation in Art, Architecture and Philosophy published by Sternberg Press and distributed by MIT Press, is forthcoming in 2025.
Gediminas Urbonas
Guest Speaker
Artist and Professor, Program in Art, Culture, and Technology at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
