Warren Neidich

American artist and theorist Warren Neidich works between Berlin and New York City. He was trained in fine art, architecture, and neuroscience. In the past five years he has used texts, neon-light sculptures, paintings and photographs to create cross-pollinating conceptual works that reflect upon situations at the border zones of art, critical neuroscience and cognitive justice. He is founder and director of the Saas-Fee Summer Institute of Art since 2015. Awards include Maison Sugar Research Fellowship, Paris (2023), Getty Research Foundation Award (2022), Stiftung Kunstfonds NEUSTART KULTUR (2020 and 2021), Hauptstadtkulturfonds (2021), Katalogförderung des Berliner Senats (2017), and Vilém Flusser Theory Award, Transmediale (2010). Selected solo and group exhibitions include the Venice Biennale, Whitney Museum of American Art, MoMA PS1, Walker Art Center, MIT List Visual Art Center, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Smithsonian National Museum of American Art (Washington D.C., US), Palais de Tokyo, Villa Arson Nice, Museum Ludwig Köln, Haus Der Kunst Munich, Zentrum für Kunst and Media (Karlsruhe, DE), Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Berlin, DE), Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg and Kunsthalle Nürnberg. He is former tutor at Goldsmiths, University of London, and professor of visual art at the Weißensee Kunsthochschule in Berlin. He has been a visiting lecturer at Brown University, GSD Harvard University, Columbia University, Princeton University, Sorbonne University in Paris, and University of Oxford and Cambridge University among many others. His work has been the subject of over 150 magazine and newspaper articles including The New York Times, Time Magazine, Artforum, Art in America, Kunstforum International, The Art Newspaper, Hyperallergic, Artnet, GQ, Forbes, and Monopol. The fourth edition of his Glossary of Cognitive Activism will be released in the fall by Eris Press (UK) in collaboration with Columbia University Press (US). An Activist Neuroaesthetic Reader was published by Archive Books (DE) in 2021. Neidich is represented by Priska Pasquer Gallery in Paris and Barbara Seiler Gallery in Zurich.

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS:

2020 Warren Neidich, Artist Are Essential Workers, Art Is An Essential Service, Guild Hall, East Hampton, NY, USA
2019 Noise and the Possibility of a Future, Venice Conservatory of Music, Venice, Italy
2019 Rumor to Delusion, Zuecca Project Space, La Biennale di Venezia, in Venice, Italy

2018 Neuromacht, Pirska Pasquer Gallery, Cologne Germany

2017 The Politics of Color, Kunstverein Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz e.V., Berlin, DE
2016 The Statisticon, Miami Contemporary Projects, Bogota, Colombia
2016 Infinite Spectres and the Anarchy of Time Plus 1, Barbara Seiler Gallery, Zurich, CH
2016 The Palinopsic Field, LACE, Los Angeles, CA, US
2016 The Artists’ Library LAXART, Los Angeles, CA, US
2015 Equal not Equal, LAXART, Los Angeles, CA, US
2015 Hollywood Blacklist, Printed Matter Los Angeles Art Book Fair, Los Angeles, CA, US
2013 How do you translate a text that is not a text? How do you perform a score that is not a
score? Townhouse Gallery, Cairo, EG
2012 Resistance is Futile/Resistance is Fertile, SKOR, Public Sculpture, Amsterdam, NL
2012 The Noologist’s Handbook, Gallery P74, Lujbjiana, SI
2012 The Noologists Handbook, Cabinet, Archive Books, Berlin, DE
2011 Horizon Swell, Fons Welters Gallery, Amsterdam, NL
2011 Emancipating the Archive, Galería Moriarty, Madrid, ES
2011 Acceptable Difference, Pluripotentiality and Painting, Belgrade Cultural Center, curated by Maja Ciric, Belgrade RS
2010 Book Exchange, Glenn Horowitz Gallery, East Hampton, NY, US
2010 Re-enacting Unknown Artist at the Paris Bar, Berlin, DE (originally installed with Martin Kippenberger at the Paris Bar, 1994)
2010 In the Mind’s I, curated by Linus Elmes, UKS-Unge Kunstneres, Samfund/Young Artist Society, Oslo, NO
2009 In the Mind’s I, curated by Emmanuel Lambion, Maison Gregoire, Brussels, BE
2008 Each Rainbow Must Retain the Chromatic Signature, Magnus Müller Gallery, Berlin, DE
2006 Earthling 2, Andrew Mummery Gallery, London, UK
2005 Earthling, Michael Steinberg Fine Arts, New York, NY, US
2002 Warren Neidich: The Mutated Observer, Part 2. California Museum of Photography, Riverside, CA, US
2002 Remapping, Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York, US
2002 Remapping, Edward Mitterrand Gallery, Geneva, CH
2001 Warren Neidich: The Mutated Observer, Part 1, California Museum of Photography, Riverside, CA, US
2001 The Camp O.J. Installation, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, California, US
2000 Beyond the Vanishing Point: Media and Myth in America, University of Virginia Bayle Art

Museum, Charlottesville, Virginia, US
1997 Re-cognition, Steffany Martz Gallery, New York, NY, US
1996 Pollock: Holding a Crow With Alchemy, Steffany Martz Gallery, New York City, NY, US 1994 Cultural Residue, Villa Arson, Nice, FR
1993 Perspectif Space, Rotterdam, NL
1991 Historical Interventions, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA, US
1991 The Battle of Chickamauga, Photographic Resource Center, Boston, MA, US
1989 American History Reinvented, Aperture Foundation, New York, NY, US