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.