Professor Oron Catts
Artist, Curator, Director, Institute of Advanced Studies, UWA - exhibited MoMA, Centre Pompidou, Mori Art Museum, NGV, GoMA, Ars Electronica, National Art Museum of China
Associate Professor Oron Catts is an interdisciplinary researcher, artist, and curator whose pioneering work with the Tissue Culture and Art Project which he established in 1996 is considered a leading biological art project.
He is The Director of The University of Western Australia’s Institute of Advanced Studies, the co-founder and head of SymbioticA (established in 2000), a biological art research entity. Catts was a Research Fellow in Harvard Medical School, a visiting Scholar at the Department of Art and Art History Stanford University, a Professor at Large in Contestable Design at the Royal College of Arts, London. Catts curated a dozen exhibitions, publish widely and exhibited in Centre Pompidou, MoMA, Mori Art Museum, NGV, GoMA, Ars Electronica, National Art Museum of China and more.