Artist of the day: Artist of the Day, November 13, 2025 : Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, a Mexican born, Canadian visual and media artist (#2417)

Thursday, November 13, 2025

Artist of the Day, November 13, 2025 : Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, a Mexican born, Canadian visual and media artist (#2417)

Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, (1967) who was born in Mexico City, now lives and works in Montréal. He was the first artist to represent Mexico at the Venice Biennale, with an exhibition at the Palazzo Van Axel in 2007. He has also shown at biennials and triennials in Cuenca, Havana, Istanbul, Kōchi, Liverpool, Melbourne, Montréal, Moscow, New Orleans, New York, Seoul, Seville, Shanghai, Singapore and Sydney.

Lozano-Hemmer’s artistic production has been featured in solo exhibitions and performances in numerous institutions, including the Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo (MUAC) in Mexico City (2015), San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) (2012), the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney (2011), the Manchester Art Gallery (2010), the Guggenheim Museum, New York (2009) and the Barbican Centre, London (2008).

His public art has been commissioned for events such as the Millennium Celebrations in Mexico City (1999), the Expansion of the European Union in Dublin (2004), the Student Massacre Memorial in Tlatelolco (2008), the Vancouver Winter Olympics (2010) and the pre-opening exhibition of the Guggenheim Museum in Abu Dhabi (2015).

His work may be found in the collections of such museums as the Museum of Modern Art (New York), SFMOMA, Guggenheim Museum (New York) and Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (Washington) in the United States, the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal, Art Gallery of Ontario (Toronto), Vancouver Art Gallery and Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec (Québec) in Canada, the Tate Modern (London), Science Museum (London) and Manchester Art Gallery in the United Kingdom, the Colección Jumex (Mexico City) and MUAC (Mexico City) in Mexico, the Museum of Old and New Art (Hobart) and National Gallery of Victoria in Australia, the Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie (Karlsruhe) in Germany and many others. He is represented by bitforms gallery (New York), Art Bärtschi & Cie (Geneva), Max Estrella (Madrid) and FuturePace (worldwide).

Rafael Lozano-Hemmer is a recipient of the 2015 Governor General’s Awards for Visual and Media Arts. In June 2016, he was named a Companion of the Ordre des arts et des lettres du Québec by the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec.

Rafael Lozano-Hemmer has already left his mark on the MAC with two spectacular installations. As part of the Québec Triennial 2011, he lit up the sky above the Quartier des spectacles with Articulated Intersect. Relational Architecture 18, a major work designed specifically for the Place des Festivals. In 2014, he also presented Pulse Room.

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