Lawrence Lek

BA Architecture, Trinity College, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England

Master of Architecture II, The Cooper Union, New York, NY

Lives and works in London, England

NOX, LAS Art Foundation, Berlin, Germany 
Black Cloud Highway, Sadie Coles HQ, Davies Street, London, England 

Nepenthe (Summer Palace Ruins), QUAD, Derby, England

Post-Sinofuturism, ZiWu The Bund, Shanghai, China

TRI_SOLO: Tim Crowley, Nik Kosmas and Lawrence Lek, BANK/MABSOCIETY, Shanghai, China

Ghostwriter, Cursor Gallery, Center for Contemporary Arts Prague, Prague, Czech Republic

Farsight Freeport, HEK Haus der Elektronischen Künste, Basel, Switzerland 

Nøtel, Urbane Künste Ruhr, Essen, Germany

AIDOL, Sadie Coles HQ, Kingly Street, London, England

Nøtel, Stroom Den Haag, The Hague, The Netherlands

Nøtel, arebyte Gallery, London, England

2065, chi K11 art space, Hong Kong

Liminal Stages Explorations on Perception, Existence and Techno-consciousness, Wind H Art Centre Beijing, China  
NUWORLDS, 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Haymarket, Sydney

The Show Must Go On, The Soil Collection, Beijing, China

Connectivity Construction, Asia Culture Centre, Gwangju, South Korea
The 20^th Biennale of Sydney: Ten Thousand Suns, White Bay Power Station, Sydney, Australia
Biennale de I’Image en Mouvement 24 (BIM’24): A Cosmic Movie Camera, Centre d’Art Contemporian, Genève, Switzerland

Virtual worlds: From cycloramas to Metaverse, Fundación Telefónica, Madrid, Spain
HOPE, MUSEION, Bolzano, Italy

Fotograf Festival – hypertension23, National Gallery Prague, Prague, Czech Republic

Editing Art: The Wanderer in Virtual Space, CAFA Central Academy of Fine Art, Beijing, China (online)

Theta’s World, X Museum Virtual, Beijing, China, online
Mattflix,Matt’s Gallery, London, England, online
Topologies of the Real: Techne, Shenzhen Museum of Contemporary Art and Urban Planning, Shenzhen, China
Game Society, MMCA National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea

OPEN SYSTEMS 1_OPEN WORLDS, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore, online

FOUNDATION: A Web3 Media Art Festival, Videotage, Hong Kong

The Pieces I Am, UCCA Center for Contemporary Art, UCCA Edge, Shanghai, China

FUTURES PAST, arebyte Gallery, London, England
Pattern Recognition. Revisiting the Municipal Collection Erlangen, Kunstpalais, Erlangen, Germany
In Our Veins Flow Ink and Fire, 5^th Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Kochi, India

“I Am Not A Robot”. On the Borders of The Singularity,Ludwig Museum – Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest, Hungary

Perfect Partner in the Near Future, Yuelai Art Museum, Chongqing, China

Meta.space: Visions of Space, Francisco Carolinum, Linz, Austria

Future – Into the Open, 27^th Rohkunstbau, Altdöbern, Germany

Cloud Walkers, Leeum Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea

Ultra Unreal, MCA Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia

Worldbuilding: Gaming & Art, 15^th Anniversary Exhibition of Julia Stoschek Collection, Julia Stoschek Collection,Düsseldorf, Germany, curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist (touring)

Future Shock, 180 The Strand, London, England

Symbiosis - Digital Creativity and Ecological Civilization, 1^st Beijing Art Biennale, Beijing, China

Digital Resonance, G.MAP Gwangju Media Art Platform, Gwangju, South Korea

Testament, Goldsmiths CCA, London, England

British Art Show 9, Hayward Gallery Touring, Various Locations, England and Scotland (touring)

Feeling the Stones, 1^st Diriyah Biennale, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Future Proof, Refresh.bzh, Paimpol Art Club, Brittany, France

Future Media Art Festival, C-LAB Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab, Taipei, Taiwan

In The Year of The Metal Ox, donaufestival, Krems, Austria

Chronicles of the Future Superheroes, Kunsthalle Bega, Romania

Iskra Delta, 34^th Ljubljana Biennale of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Radical Gaming - Immersion Simulation Subversion, HEK Haus der Elektronischen Künste, Basel, Switzerland

Open?, Russian Pavilion at the 17^th Venice Architecture Biennale, Venice, Italy

AI: More than Human, World Museum Liverpool, Liverpool, England; AI: More than Human, Fernán Gómez, Madrid, Spain (touring)

Extensions Vol III. Monstrous Machines, ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Denmark and Radar Contemporary, online

Pieces of Me, Transfer Gallery, online

Am I a Human to You?, Art Museum KUBE, Ålesund, Norway

In-Between Days: Video from the Guggenheim Collections, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York NY, USA

Summer Exhibition 2020, RA Royal Academy of Arts, London, England

The Sea is Glowing, Exportdrvo, Rijeka, Croatia

Videotage Media Art Collection: Paranormal, HKCEC Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong

The Future of Silence: When Your Tongue Vanishes, Nam June Paik Art Centre, Seoul, South Korea

Uncanny Valley: Being Human in the Age of AI, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco | de Young Legion of Honor, San Francisco CA, USA

E2E (End to End), transmediale 2020, Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Berlin, Germany

Gameplay. Video Games Culture, CCCB Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

Every Step in the Right Direction, Singapore Biennale 2019, Singapore

24/7, Somerset House, London, England

TRANSFORMER: A Rebirth of Wonder, 180 The Strand, London, England

Cosmologic Arrows, Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden

Complete Technology, MoCA Museum of Contemporary Art Busan, Busan, South Korea

Serious Game, HOW Art Museum, Shanghai, China

Future Cities: Technopolis and Everyday Life, CFCCA Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art, Manchester

The Coming World: Ecology as the New Politics 2030-2100, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia

An Opera for Animals, RAM Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai, China

Nøtel, Unlimited, Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Game of Drones. Of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, Zeppelin Museum Friedrichshafen, Friedrichshafen, Germany

FTSE (Farsight Stock Exchange), Bold Tendencies, Peckham Multi-Storey Car Park, London, England

AI:More Than Human, The Curve, Barbican Centre, London, England (touring)

Free Panorama, Shenzhen New Media Art Festival, Pingshan Cultural Center Exhibition Gallery, Shenzhen, China

Forging the Gods, Transfer Gallery, New York NY, USA

The New Human Agenda, Akbank Sanat, Istanbul, Turkey

An Opera for Animals, Para Site, Hong Kong

Artificial Landscape, in collaboration with Videotage, SOGO Causeway Bay, Hong Kong

artapes. Low Form, MAXXI Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo, Rome, Italy

ARTBOTS, Patchlab Digital Art Festival, Krakow, Poland

Offline Browser, The 6th Taiwan International Video Art Exhibition 2018, Taipei, Taiwan

Open Codes. The World as a Field of Data, ZKM | Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany

Fetch and Deliver (Holen und Bringen), Werkleitz Festival 2018: Holen und Bringen, Halle (Saale), Germany

Rivers of Emotion, Bodies of Ore, Kunsthall Trondheim, Trondheim, Norway

Ecology, Bold Tendencies, Peckham Multi-Storey Car Park, London, England

Quest-For-Meaning Bureau The Culture of a Good Life, KUNSTSÆLE Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Head Heap Heat, ICA Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore, Singapore

Rendered Cities, apexart, New York, NY

Uncanny Valleys of a Possible Future, CTM 2018: Turmoil, Kunstraum Kreuzberg / Bethanien, Berlin, Germany

A Better Version of You, Artsonje Center, Seoul, South Korea

Play Station, Art Night London, with Whitechapel Gallery, London, England

3Drifts, ASAKUSA, Tokyo, Japan

HyperPavilion, Arsenale Nord, Venice, Italy

Geomancer, Neither One Thing Or Another, Jerwood/FVU Awards, Jerwood Space, London, England

The New Normal, UCCA Ullens Centre for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China

Hybrid Layers, ZKM | Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany

Offshore: Artists explore the sea, Maritime Museum, Hull, England

All Channels Open, Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge, England

Hua Wei (with Kode9 / Hyperdub), Ø, Corsica Studios, London, England

Glasgow International, Director's Programme, Tramway, Glasgow, Scotland

SeMA Mediacity Seoul Biennial, SeMA Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea

Missed Connections, Julia Stoschek Collection, Dusseldorf, Germany

Vordemburge-Gildewart Award, Annely Juda Fine Art, London, England

Maybe your Lens is Scratched?, Slate Projects, London, England

Europa, Mon Amour (2016 Brexit Edition), Open Source Festival, London, England

Overseas (360 Video), This is Public Space, UP Projects, London, England

New Realities, Espacio Fundación Telefónica, Lima, Peru

Game Video / Art, Triennale di Milano: 21st Century. Design After Design, IULM, Milan, Italy

Secret Surface, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany 

Software, Hard Problem, Cubitt Gallery, London, England

The Uncanny Valley, Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge, England

The Labour of Sound in a World of Debt, Vierte Welt, Berlin, Germany

Faith Dollars, Taxfree Imagination & Uptown Bliss, Assembly Point, London, England

Equalizer.Space, The Wrong, Biennial for Online Art (with Channel Normal)

Dalston, Mon Amour, Open Source Festival, London, England

H0ST, Galleri Monitor, Göthenburg, Sweden

Dazed Emerging Artist Award, RA Royal Academy of Arts, London, England

Black Box Formula, Curating Contemporary Art Exhibition, RCA Royal College of Art, London, England

Sky Line, Digital Commission, supported by Outset England, Art Licks Weekend, London England

Tomb, Shrine, Survey-Maker, Spare Part..., Enclave, London, England

I/P 1, Project/Number, London, England

Tabularium, Slopes, Melbourne, Australia

BitRates, Shiraz Artist House, Shiraz, Iran

Re:presence, Sto Werkstatt, London, England

SEIZE International, KÉK The Hungarian Contemporary Architecture Centre, Budapest, Hungary

Raytracer, The White Building, London, England

Delirious New Wick, V&A Victoria & Albert Museum, London, England

Snow Falling in a Temple, Twice, POST2, La Scatola, online Residency

Continental Drift OST, Channel Normal, online Residency

Prosthetic Aesthetics, Werkraum Bregenzerwald, Andelsbuch, Switzerland

Penthouse 4C, Hack the Barbican, Barbican Centre, London, England

Night Loops, Legion TV, London, England

Bonus Levels: A Collective Tower, Art Licks Weekend, The White Building, London, England

The Wrong, Biennial for Online Art, São Paulo, Brazil

ERROR 415, ArtSlant, San Francisco, CA, USA

Pyramid Schemes, The White Building, London, England

Glass Idols, V&A Victoria & Albert Museum, London, England

Bring Your Own Beamer, SPACE, London, England

Exophonic 1, Watermans – West London’s Arts Centre, London, England

Designers in Residence 2012, Design Museum, London, England

Art and Social Activism, ChaShaMa Foundation, New York, NY

Assembly, Triangle Space, Chelsea College of Arts, London, England

Illuminations, Coldharbour Gallery, London, England

SimBeijing Walkthrough at Cybernetic Serendipity: Towards AI, ICA Insititute of Contemporary Arts, London,
England

Nepenthe (Live), Prismatic Ground Film Festival, Chaos Computer, New York NY, USA, 3 May
The Universe Listens To Us As We Listen To It, Ignota Books,Cafe OTO, London, England, 7 January

Hyperdub Presents, Corsica Studios, London, England, 2 June

Polysonic Worlds: Lawrence Lek & Evan Ifekoya, New Mystics,Somerset House, London, England, 26 May

Nepenthe (Live), Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art, London, England, 2 April

Feature, Cafe OTO, London, England, 5 February

Eastern Margins Ceremony: Lawrence Lek, yeule & Raw2.2, OHYUNG, The Yard Theatre, London, England, May 17, online

Image Behaviour: Keiken / Lawrence Lek + Clifford Sage, ICA Institute of Contemporary Art London, London, England, 15 November

ASSEMBLY: Lawrence Lek, Seth Scott & Robin Simpson, Somerset House Studios, London, England, curated by Christian Marclay, 9 November

Eastern Margins Presents, Cafe OTO, London, England, 18 June

Live & Ambient, with Clifford Sage, Lost Senses, Guest Projects, London, England

Heliotones, with Oliver Coates, Borealis Festival, Bergen, Norway

Nøtel, with Kode9, ICA Institute of Contemporary Arts, London; Sonar, Barcelona, Spain; Moogfest, Durham, NC; Unsound Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia

Sunrise/Sunset, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany 

Unreal Estate, with Oliver Coates, 3hd Festival, HAU2, Berlin, Germany; Kammer Klang, Cafe OTO, London, England

Uncanny Halloween, Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge, England

Performance as Process, Chelsea College of Art, London, England

Syndrome, FACT Foundation for Art & Creative Technology, Liverpool, England

Bodyscape, Parasol unit foundation for contemporary art, London, England

AIDOL at Speculative Simulation Film Program, Gray Area, San Francisco, USA, 19 – 21 January           

THETA at Engadin Art Talks (E.A.T.), Zuoz, Switzerland, 26 January 

Geomancer and AIDOL at Cantopop Icons, Metrograph, New York NY, USA

Theta at St. Moritz Art Film Festival, St Moritz, Switzerland, 1 September 
Theta at What form do I take to be able to speak?, Beirut Art Center, Beirut, Lebanon, 21 June

Theta and AIDOL at Prismatic Ground Film Festival, Anthology Film Archives and Light Industry, New York NY, USA, 3 – 7 May

Theta at New Cinema Days, Abandon Normal Devices, Manchester, England, 20 April

Sinofuturism (1839–2046 AD) and Geomancer at Techno Sapiens, M+, Hong Kong, 3 March and 18 March

Theta at 52nd IFFR International Film Festival Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 25 January – 5 February

AIDOL at Cineteca, Madrid, Spain, 26 February

Theta at Asia Forum, Fondazione Querini Stampalia, Venice, Italy, 23 April

AIDOL at donaufestival, Krems, Austria, 01 – 10 October

AIDOL at Oslo Internasjonale Teaterfestival, Blackbox Theatre, Oslo

AIDOL and Geomancer at State of Motion 2021: [Alternate/Opt] Realities, Asia Film Archive, Singapore, 30 January – 06 February

AIDOL at Hainan Island International Film Festival, Hainan, China, 05 – 12 December

AIDOL at The AI Party Pep Rally, Bombina Bombast, Hypnos Theatre, Malmö, Sweden, 02 December

AIDOL at SoundTrack_Cologne17, SoundTrack_Cologne, Cologne, Germany, 14 – 17 October

AIDOL at Unsound Festival, Kraków, Poland, October 10, online

Geomancer at MIRA Festival, IDEAL Digital Arts Center, Barcelona, Spain, 1 – 30 September

Sinofuturism (1839-2046 AD) at China, as the Concept, OCAT Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China, August 8

AIDOL, CCCB Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, August 6

2065 at Videotage Media Art Collection: Paranormal, HKCEC Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong, 20 March

Time Machine at DJ Spooky, with Ronald Guttman, Tony Torn, and Julie Atlas Muz: Performances Inspired by Alfred Jarry, The Morgan Library & Museum, New York NY, USA, 28 February

AIDOL at E2E (End to End), transmediale 2020, Volksbühne Berlin, Berlin, Germany, 28 January – 01 February

AIDOL at 49^th IFFR International Film Festival Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 22 January – 02 February

Geomancer at To Other Shores: On Techno-Sinofuturism, AI Artist Bots and New Silk Roads, ACUD Macht Neu, Berlin, Germany, 30 November

Geomancer at MUTEK Montréal, Montréal, Canada, 18 – 25 August

AIDOL at MIEFF Moscow International Experimental Film Festival, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia, 10 July

Geomancer at Present Futures Glasgow, CCA Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow, Scotland, 08 – 09 June

Geomancer at Stanley, Meet Alexa: AI and Filmmaking in the Flesh, BFI, London, 27 April

Sinofuturism (1839–2046 AD) at Norient Musikfilm Festival, Bern / Lausanne / St. Gallen, Switzerland 

2065; Bonus Levels - Chapter 2: Delirious New Wick – Walkthrough at Clockenflap, Hong Kong, China

Geomancer at ArtReview Bar, London, England

Geomancer atKolkata Shorts International Film Festival, Hotel Monotel, Kolkata, India

Pyramid Schemes; Play Station (Farsight Corporate Trailer); Geomancer in Artists Film Club, ICA Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, England

Geomancer in Dreaming Androids, IFFR International Film Festival Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Geomancer; Sinofuturism at FACT Foundation for Art & Creative Technology, Liverpool, England

IAM Internet Age Media, Barcelona, Spain

Sinofuturism (1839 – 2046 AD) at A4, Bratislava, Slovakia

Geomancer at Jerwood/FVU, London, England (touring to: CCA Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow, Scotland; HOME, Manchester, England; Phoenix, Leicester, England; Phoenix, Exeter, England; Tyneside Cinema, Newcastle, England; Arnolfini, Bristol, England)

Viewfinder: ON AIR, with videoclub UK & British Council, West Bund Art Fair, Chronus Art Center, Shanghai, China

Welcome to Play Station; Farsight Corporate Promo in Both Sides Now 4, with videoclub UK & Videotage Hong Kong, HOME, Manchester, England

Geomancer in SummerLab, LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial, Gijón, Spain

Sky Line in Unsettle, in collaboration with LUX Moving Image and Daata Editions, StudioRCA, London, England

CitizensFive, programmed by Alexander Burenkov, Art Athina, Athens, Greece

Postcapitalist Desire, programmed by roaming projects, Platform, London, England

Dark Water, programmed by Tai Shani & A – Z, CGP Dilston Grove, London, England

GEGENkino Film Festival, Leipzig, Germany

Nocturnal City, programmed by Estela Oliva, Somerset House, London, England

Europa, Mon Amour (2016 Brexit Edition) in Projections, New York Film Festival 2016, New York, NY

Kasseler Dokumentarfilm und Videofest, Kassel, Germany

Internationale Kurzfilmtage, Winterthur, Switzerland

Long Progress Bar, Lighthouse, Brighton, England

ICA Artist Film Biennial, ICA Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, England; Phoenix Cinema, Leicester, England; Spike Island, Bristol, England; Tramway, Glasgow, Scotland

Tableaux, Assembly Point, London, England

Speeding & Braking: Navigating Acceleration, Goldsmiths College, London, England

Heterotopia of Rules, LEAP Magazine, West Bund Art Fair, Shanghai, China

Visions in the Nunnery, Bow Arts, London, England

Public Art Screens, Stavanger, Norway

Cybernetic Serendipity: Towards AI, ICA Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, England 

Art in the Age of Immersion (in Conversation with Carly Whitefield), LOOP Fair 2023, Barcelona, Spain
New Cinema Days, Abandon Normal Devices, SODA School of Digital Arts, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, England, 20 April
Ways of Worlding, The Berlage Center for Advanced Studies, Delft, The Netherlands, 13 April

Speculative Existence: Human, Experiences, and Technology of the Future, Museum MACAN, Jakarta, Indonesia, 17 September

Theta: Future Shock, Reference Point, 180 The Strand, London, England, 28 July

Urgency of the Arts, The Royal College of Art, London, England, 2 February

What Are We Building?, MIT Wasserman Forum online, 06 April – 10 April 

Artist Talk: Lawrence Lek (2020 Sarah Lee Elson International Artist-in-Residence), Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton NJ, USA, 5 November

First-Person (with Alex Quicho), Power Station of Art, Shanghai, China, 2 October

Gray Area Festival 2020: Radical Simulation, Gray Area, San Francisco CA, USA, 23 September

AIDOL: Screening & Talk with Steve Goodman, ALL, Shanghai, China
To Other Shores: On Techno-Sinofuturism, AI Artist Bots and New Silk Roads, ACUD Macht Neu, Berlin, Germany, 30 November

Worldbuilding for Non-Humans. Artist talk by Lawrence Lek, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia, 14 July

Technology and its Intersections: Viewing Scenarios and other Platforms, ICA Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, England, 13 March

Posthuman Worlds, Artist Talk, CAC x On-AIR Programme. Chronus Art Center, Shanghai, China

Geomancer: Screening, & Talk with Anna Greenspan & Steve Goodman, ALL, Shanghai, China

The Only Path to Tomorrow. Symposium as part of Zach Blas’ exhibition Contra-Internet, Gasworks, London, England

Art Night 2017: Building Futures: Collecting New Media, with Fatos Ustek, Bishopsgate Institute, London, England

Creative AI: Film in the Age of Non-Human Authors, The Photographer’s Gallery, London, England

The New Normal: In conversation with Jacob Dreyer, UCCA, Beijing, China

Sinofuturism: A Conspiracy Theory? With Anna Greenspan & Steve Goodman, NYU Shanghai, Shanghai, China

Sonic Fictions: With Alvin Li & Steve Goodman, UCCA, Beijing, China

The Museum as Battlefield, Contemporary Art Society Annual Talk, British Museum, London, England

In conversation with Steve Goodman for Jerwood/FVU Awards, RCA Royal College of Art, London, England

Resonate Festival, Kinoteka, Belgrade, Serbia 

Missed Connections (talk with Devin Kenny, Lawrence Lek, Hito Steyerl, Jennifer Chan, moderated by Melissa Gronlund, Julia Stoschek Collection, Dusseldorf, Germany

In conversation with Stephanie Bailey & Sophia Al-Maria, Frieze Art Fair, London, England

Sinofuturism (1839 – 2046 AD), Resonance FM / Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge, England

Digital Narratives (with Karen Di Franco & Morgan Quaintance), Whitechapel Gallery, London, England

Behind the Show: Notel, Sonar by Day, Barcelona, Spain

D&AD Talks, Awakening Tech, Institute of Education, London, England

OneDotZero dotdotdot Talk Series, Protein Studios, London, England

Studio Visit (with Morgan Quaintance & Cecile B. Evans), Resonance FM, UK

Bonus Levels, RCA Fine Art Lecture Series, RCA Royal College of Art, London, England

Design Interactions - Study Day, RCA Royal College of Art, London, England

Object as Measure, Artist Talk, Chelsea College of Art, London, England

British Council, London, England

Guggenheim Museums and Foundation, New York NY, USA / Venice, Italy / Bilbao, Spain / Abu Dhabi, UAE

M+ Museum, Hong Kong

MOCA Museum of Contemporary Art, Busan, South Korea

Museum of London, London, England

Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton NJ, USA

Rubell Family Collection, Miami FL, USA

Singapore Art Museum, Singapore