Uriel Orlow

Lecturer master
Plenum, artistic mentoring, seminar

Uriel Orlow is a Swiss-born artist with a diasporic background who lives between Lisbon and London. His practice is research-driven, process-oriented and often in dialogue with other disciplines and people. Working across installation, photography, film, drawing, textiles, ceramics, sound and gardens his works bring different image-regimes and narrative modes into correspondence. Recent projects in Lisbon, Goa, New York, Südtirol and elsewhere have engaged with residues of colonialism, social and ecological justice, forms of haunting and plants as political actors.

Orlow has been invited to the 61st International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia by Koyo Kouoh opening on 9 May 2026. He previously exhibited at major international biennals such as Manifesta 9 and 12, as well as at biennials in Berlin, Dakar, Kochi, Taipei, Sharjah, Moscow, Kathmandu, Guatemala, Venice, and elsewhere. Solo exhibitions include MCBA Lausanne, Galerias Municipais Lisbon, State of Concept Athens, Tabakalera San Sebastian, Kunsthalle Sankt Gallen, Market Photo Workshop Johannesburg, The Showroom London, Castello di Rivoli Turin, Centre Culturel Suisse Paris amongst others. His work has also been exhibited in museums and at film festivals 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 was also previously awarded 3 Swiss Art Awards in Basel and a Werkjahr from the Canton of Zurich. He has previously taught in London at Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design, Goldsmiths College and Royal College of Art and in Switzerland at HEAD and ZHdK.

uriel.orlow@fhnw.ch
urielorlow.net