Uriel Orlow

Lecturer master
Plenum, artistic mentoring, Seminar

Uriel Orlow is a Swiss-born artist with a diasporic background and lives between Lisbon and London. 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, he brings different image-regimes and narrative modes into correspondence.

Orlow’s work has been presented at major international survey exhibitions including at the 54th Venice Biennale, Manifesta 9 and 12, as well as at biennials in Berlin, Dakar, Kochi, Taipei, Sharjah, Moscow, Kathmandu, Guatemala, and at museums and galleries in London, Paris, New York, Lisbon, Zurich, Chicago, Athens, Madrid, Cairo, Istanbul, Mexico City, Beijing, Toronto, Melbourne, New Delhi, and elsewhere.

In 2023, he was awarded the Swiss Grand Prix for Art / Prix Meret Oppenheim, and in 2017 the Sharjah Biennial Prize, as well as three Swiss Art Awards and a Werkjahr from the Canton of Zurich. Previously, he has taught in London at Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design, Goldsmiths College and Royal College of Art and in Switzerland at HEAD in Geneva and ZHdK in Zurich.

uriel.orlow@fhnw.ch
urielorlow.net