Biography

1. Exhibitions
2. Public Art
3. Academic
4. Conferences - Workshops
5. Awards

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LUCY ORTA b. Great Britain (1966)

After graduating with an honours degree in fashion-knitwear design from Nottingham Trent University in 1989, Lucy began practicing as a visual artist in Paris in 1991.

Her sculptural work investigates the boundaries between the body and architecture, exploring their common social factors, such as communication and identity. Lucy uses the media of sculpture, public intervention, video, and photography to realize her work. Her most emblematic artworks include Refuge Wear and Body Architecture (1992–98), portable, lightweight, and autonomous structures representing issues of survival. Nexus Architecture (1994–2002) is a series of participative interventions in which a variable number of people wear suits connected to each other, shaping modular and collective structures. When recorded in photography and video, these interventions visualize the concept of social links. Urban Life Guards (2004–ongoing) are wearable objects that reflect on the body as a metaphorical supportive structure.

Lucy’s work has been the focus of major survey exhibitions at the Weiner Secession, Austria (1999); the Contemporary Art Museum of the University of South Florida, for which she received the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts award (2001); and the Barbican Centre, London (2005). She is a Professor of Art and the Environment at the University of the Arts London and was the inaugural Rootstein Hopkins Chair at London College of Fashion from 2002–7. From 2002–5 was the head of Man & Humanity, a pioneering master program that stimulates socially driven and sustainable design, which she co-founded with Li Edelkoort at the Design Academy in Eindhoven in 2002.

Exhibitions

1. • 2012
   • Six Yards Guaranteed Dutch Design 
   • venue: MMKA museum voor moderne kunst arnhem , Arnhem , Netherlands
   • type: Group Exhibition, curator: Suze May Sho artists’ collective
   • site: http://www.mmkarnhem.nl
2. • 2011
   • Block Party 
   • venue: UK Touring Exhibition, London, UK
   • type: Group Exhibition, curator: Lucy Orta for the Crafts Council of England
   • site: http://www.craftscouncil.org.uk
3. • 2010
   • Lucy Orta 
   • venue: Centre for Contemporary Art and the Natural World CCANW, Devon, UK
   • type: Solo Exhibition
   • site: www.ccanw.co.uk
4. • 2009
   • Lucy Orta 
   • venue: Plymouth Arts Centre and 
Plymouth College of Art, Plymouth, UK
   • type: Solo Exhibition, curator: Paula Orrel
   • site: http://www.plymouthartscentre.org
5. • 2008
   • Survival 
   • venue: Fashion Space Gallery, London College of Fashion, London, UK
   • type: Solo Exhibition
   • site: http://www.fashion.arts.ac.uk/exhibitions.htm
6. • Carried Away Procession in Art 
   • venue: MMKA, Arnhem, Holland
   • type: Group Exhibition, curator: Nanda Janssen
   • site: http://www.mmkarnhem.nl
7. • 2007
   • Nexus Architecture 
   • venue: Tramway, Glasgow, Scotland
   • type: Solo Exhibition
   • site: http://www.tramway.org/
8. • 2006
   • This is America! 
   • venue: Centraal Museum, Utrecht, Holland
   • type: Group, curator: Meta Knol
9. • Monument Minimal 
   • venue: Château d’Avignon, Bouches-du-Rhône, France
   • type: Group, curator: Agnes Barruol
10. • Metro Pictures 
    • venue: MOCA North Miami, Florida, USA
    • type: Group, curator: Silvia Karman Cubiñá
11. • Taille Humaine 
    • venue: Orangerie du Sénat, Jardin du Luxembourg, Paris, France
    • type: Group, curator: Christian Gattinoni / Michele Robine
12. • LESS – Strategie alternative dell’ abitare’ 
    • venue: PAC contemporary art museum, Milan, Italy
    • type: Group, curator: Gabi Scardi
13. • Nexus Architecture 
    • venue: 9th Havana Biennale, La Habana Vieja, Cuba
    • type: Biennale, curator: Nelson Herrera Ysla
14. • Other than Art 
    • venue: G-Fine Art Gallery, Washington DC, USA
    • type: Group, curator: Milena Kalinovska
15. • Channel 
    • venue: Cupola Gallery Hillsborough, Sheffield, UK
    • type: Group
16. • The Fashion of Architecture 
    • venue: Centre for Architecture, New York, USA
    • type: Group, curator: Bradley Quinn
17. • Dark Places 
    • venue: The Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica (CA), USA
    • type: Group
18. • 2005
    • Five Rings/Ornaments of Suffering 
    • venue: Fort of Exilles, Piedmont, Italy
    • type: Group, curator: Mimmo di Massimo
19. • Lucy Orta 
    • venue: Barbican Curve Gallery, London, UK
    • type: Solo, curator: Alona Pardo / Paula Orrell
20. • Sweet Taboos 
    • venue: Tirana Biennale 3, Tirana, Albania
    • type: Biennale, curator: Roberto Pinto
21. • Future Textiles: Fast Wear for Sport & Fashion 
    • venue: The HUB, Sleaford, UK
    • type: Group
22. • Fear Gear 
    • venue: Roebling Hall, New York, USA
    • type: Group
23. • Pattern Language/ Clothing as Communicator exhibition 
    • venue: Tufts University Art Gallery, Massachusets, U.S.A.
    • type: Group
24. • Fée Maison 
    • venue: La Briqueterie en Bourgogne, Le Creusot, France
    • type: Group, curator: Martine Buissart
25. • Contemporaneo Liquido (The Liquid Contemporary) 
    • venue: FrancoSoffiantino Artecontemporanea Gallery, Turin, Italy
    • type: Group, curator: Roberto Pinto
26. • Totipotent Architectecture 
    • venue: Centre for Contemporary Visual Arts, University of Brighton, Brighton, UK
    • type: Solo, curator: Paula Orrell
27. • Est-Ouest/Nord-Sud, faire habiter l'homme là encore autrement 
    • venue: Arc-en-Reve centre d'architecture, Bordeaux, France
    • type: Group
28. • Art-Robe: Women artists in a nexus of art and fashion’ 
    • venue: UNESCO Headquarters, Paris, France
    • type: Group
29. • On Conceptual Clothing 
    • venue: Musashino Art University / Kirishima Open-Air Museum, Tokyo / Yokohama, Japan
    • type: Group
30. • Biennale de l’urgence en Tchétchénie 
    • venue: Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
    • type: Group, curator: Evelyne Jouanno
31. • 70 x 7, The Meal, act XXIII- Lunch with Lucy 
    • venue: Barbican Curve Gallery, London, UK
    • type: Solo exhibition
32. • 2004
    • Dwelling X 
    • venue: City of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK
    • type: Public sculpture, curator: commissioned by Angel Row Gallery and NOW
33. • A Grain of Dust A Drop of Water 
    • venue: Gwangju Biennale 2004, Gwangju, South Korea
    • type: Biennale
34. • Totipotent Architectecture 
    • venue: Arte all’ Arte / Association Continua, Buonconvento Tuscany, Italy
    • type: Public installation, curator: James Puttman / Achille Bonito Oliva
35. • Nexus Architecture x 110 
    • venue: L.O.G. Attwood Green, Birmingham, UK
    • type: Action, curator: Jane Bradley
36. • Nexus Architecture - Peace Intervention 25.6.04 
    • venue: Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK
    • type: Performance
37. • Dwelling X 
    • venue: Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland, UK
    • type: Group
38. • Dwelling X 
    • venue: RIBA (Royal Institute of British Architects), London, UK
    • type: Solo, curator: Paula Orrell
39. • The Interventionists 
    • venue: MASS MoCA, USA
    • type: Group, curator: Natho Thompson
40. • Flexible 4: Identities 
    • venue: Kunsthallen Brandts Klaedefabrik, Odense, Denmark
    • type: Group
41. • Space Between 
    • venue: John Curtin Gallery, Perth, Australia
    • type: Group
42. • Lies and Lust: Art & Fashion 
    • venue: Podewil, Berlin, Germany
    • type: Group
43. • 2003
    • Urban Life Guard 
    • venue: Ludwig Forum, Aachen, Germany
    • type: Solo performance
44. • Connector Mobile Village 
    • venue: Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, Washington
    • type: Solo
45. • Body Architecture 
    • venue: Lothringer 13, Munich, Germany
    • type: Solo
46. • Connector Mobile Village 
    • venue: Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
    • type: Temporary public installation
47. • Collective Dwelling 
    • venue: Institute for Contemporary Art, Brisbane, Australia
    • type: Solo and community workshop
48. • Flexible 
    • venue: Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, UK
    • type: Group
49. • Creuats/Cruzados/Crossed 
    • venue: CCCB, Barcelona, Spain
    • type: Group
50. • Armour 
    • venue: Fort Asperen, Holland
    • type: Group, curator: Li Edelkoort
51. • Design et Habitats 
    • venue: Pompidou Centre, Paris, France
    • type: Group
52. • Nexus Architecture x 50 (Micro Utopias) 
    • venue: Art and Architecture Biennale, Valencia, Spain
    • type: Biennale, curator: Jean-Louis Maubant
53. • M.I.U. Mobile Intervention Units 
    • venue: Kaape Helder, Den Helder, Holland
    • type: Group, curator: Peter de Rooden
54. • Fashion The Greatest Show on Earth 
    • venue: Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, USA
    • type: Group
55. • Collective Dwelling act VIII’ 
    • venue: Cicignon High School, Fredrikstad, Norway
    • type: Solo and community workshop
56. • Dwelling X 
    • venue: Market Square, Nottingham, UK
    • type: Community workshop, curator: Angel Row Gallery and NOW commission
57. • Doublures 
    • venue: Musée national des beaux-arts du Quebec, Quebec, Quebec
    • type: Group exhibition
58. • 2002
    • Connector Mobile Village 
    • venue: Florida Atlantic University Galleries, Boca Raton, USA
    • type: Solo exhibition
59. • Nexus Architecture x 110 
    • venue: Miami Design District / Art Miami Basel, Miami, USA
    • type: Action, curator: Florida Atlantic University Gallery
60. • Fluid Architecture II workshops 
    • venue: The Dairy, St Siméon, France
    • type: Online interactive workshop, curator: Inauguration of Master in Industrial Design ‘Man + Humanity' Design Academy Eindhoven
    • site: www.fluidarchitecture.net
61. • Fluid Architecture II workshops 
    • venue: Stroom centre for the visual arts, The Hague, Holland
    • type: Solo / online interactive workshop
    • site: www.fluidarchitecture.net
62. • Connector Body Architecture sector IX 
    • venue: Musée d’Art et d’Histoire de Cholet, Cholet, France
    • type: Solo
63. • Fluid Architecture I workshops 
    • venue: Drill hall, City of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
    • type: Solo / Community workshop, curator: Jane Crawley
64. • Life Nexus 
    • venue: The Welcome Trust, London, UK
    • type: Solo with Jorge Orta, curator: Denna Jones
65. • Connector Body Architecture 
    • venue: The Laing Gallery, Newcastle, UK
    • type: Group, curator: Andrew Patrizio
66. • Strike 
    • venue: Wolverhampton Art Gallery, UK
    • type: Group, curator: Gavin Wade / adjusted by Liam Gillick
67. • Somewhere places in refuge 
    • venue: Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham, UK
    • type: Group, curator: Angela Kingston
68. • Shine 
    • venue: The Lowry, Salford Quays, UK
    • type: Group
69. • Portable Living Spaces 
    • venue: The Fabric Workshop, Philadelphia, USA
    • type: Group
70. • Fragilités 
    • venue: Le Printemps de Septembre, Toulouse, France
    • type: Group, curator: Marta Gilli
71. • 2001
    • Connector Mobile Village sector IV 
    • venue: University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, USA
    • type: Solo, curator: Margaret Miller / Jade Dellinger
72. • Connector Guardian Angel sector VIII 
    • venue: Casa de Francia, Mexico City, Mexico
    • type: Solo
73. • Mobile Village: Plug In 
    • venue: Westfälisches Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte, Munster, Germany
    • type: Group, curator: Markus Henzielman
74. • Untragbar 
    • venue: Museum für Angewandte Kunst Köln, Cologne, Germany
    • type: Group, curator: Markus Henzielman
75. • To the Trade 
    • venue: Diverse Works, Houston, USA
    • type: Group, curator: Bernard Brunon / Jade Dellinger
76. • Wegziehen 
    • venue: Frauen Museum, Bonn, Germany
    • type: Group
77. • Global Tools 
    • venue: Künstlerhaus Vienna, Vienna, Austria
    • type: Group
78. • M.I.U. (Transforms) 
    • venue: G8 Environment Summit, Trieste, Italy
    • type: Group, curator: Roberto Pinto / Emmanuela de Cecco
79. • Arbor Vitae (Making History) 
    • venue: Freeport Talke, Staffordshire, UK
    • type: Solo / Community workshop, curator: Staffordshire University / Staffordshire County / Borough and district councils
80. • 2000
    • Connector Mobile Village sector VII 
    • venue: Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
    • type: Solo, curator: Pat Fisher
81. • Connector MacroWear sector VI 
    • venue: Kapelica Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia
    • type: Solo
82. • Connector Mobile Village sector V 
    • venue: Musashino Art University Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
    • type: Workshop, curator: Professor Kazuko Koike
83. • Connector Mobile Village I 
    • venue: Pitti Imagine, Florence, Italy
    • type: Solo, curator: Christina Morozzi
84. • Connector Mobile Village I + II 
    • venue: Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, Australia
    • type: Solo, curator: Stuart Koop
85. • Dynamic City 
    • venue: La Fondation pour l’architecture, Brussels, Belgium
    • type: Group
86. • Connector Mobile Village II 
    • venue: E.N.S.A.V. La Cambre, Brussels, Belgium
    • type: Community workshop
87. • Air en Forme 
    • venue: Musée des Arts Décoratifs / Vitra Design Museum, Lausanne, Switzerland
    • type: Group tour
88. • Ici On Peut Toucher 
    • venue: Galerie TBN, Rennes, France
    • type: Group
89. • Life Nexus Village Fete (Home) 
    • venue: Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
    • type: Group, curator: Trevor Smith / Gary Duffour
90. • Mutations/Modes 1960-2000 
    • venue: Musée Galliera, Paris, France
    • type: Group
91. • The Dairy 
    • venue: La Laiterie, St Siméon, France
    • type: Masterclass
92. • 1999
    • HortiRecycling Enterprise, act II 
    • venue: Weiner Secession, Vienna, Austria
    • type: Solo, curator: Katherin Romberg
93. • Nexus Architecture 
    • venue: Haus der Kulturen / City of Berlin, Intervention in the city of Berlin, Germany
    • type: Intervention
94. • Nexus Architecture 
    • venue: Passages centre d’art contemporain, Troyes, France
    • type: Solo
95. • Collective Dwelling Act VII 
    • venue: Fabrica Gallery, Brighton, UK
    • type: Solo
96. • Body Architecture 
    • venue: Institut Français d’Architecture, Paris, France
    • type: Group
97. • Urban Life Guards - works in progress 
    • venue: Expofil, Paris, France
    • type: Solo
98. • Visions of the Body 
    • venue: Museum of Modern Art Kyoto / Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Kyoto / Tokyo, Japan
    • type: Group tour
99. • Life Nexus Village Fête (In the Midst of Things) 
    • venue: Bournville Village Green, Birmingham, UK
    • type: Group, curator: Nigel Prince / Gavin Wade
100. • Design Machine 
     • venue: Kelvingrove Museum, Glasgow, UK
     • type: Group
101. • Collective Dwelling Act VI 
     • venue: Gorbals Estate, Glasgow, UK
     • type: Community workshop
102. • Model Homes 
     • venue: The Edmonton Art Gallery, Canada
     • type: Group
103. • Untitled 
     • venue: Ronald Feldman Gallery, New York, USA
     • type: Group
104. • 1998
     • Personal Effects - The Collective Conscious 
     • venue: Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
     • type: Group, curator: Ewen Mcdonald
105. • Collective Dwelling act V 
     • venue: Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
     • type: Community workshop
106. • Lucy Orta - Urban Armour 
     • venue: Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
     • type: Solo, curator: Trevor Smith
107. • Nexus Architecture 
     • venue: Intervention Appel d’Air Paris/March Against Child Labour, Paris/Lyon (intervention), France
     • type: Intervention
108. • Collective Dwelling Act III 
     • venue: Grand Street Rink, New York, USA
     • type: Public installation
109. • Addressing the Century 
     • venue: The Hayward Gallery, London, UK
     • type: Group
110. • The Campaign Against Living Miserably 
     • venue: The Royal College of Art Galleries, London, UK
     • type: Group
111. • Nexus Architecture 
     • venue: Passage de Retz, Paris, France
     • type: Group, curator: Jean-Michel Ribettes
112. • 1997
     • Collective Dwelling Act II 
     • venue: Le Creux de l’Enfer, Thiers, France
     • type: Solo
113. • All in One Basket, act I 
     • venue: Galerie du Forum St Eustache, Paris, France
     • type: Solo performance, curator: Jérôme Sans
114. • Refuge Wear 
     • venue: Intervention East End London, London, UK
     • type: Intervention
115. • Commune Communicate (Actions Urbaines) 
     • venue: Metz detention centre, Metz, France
     • type: Solo
116. • Nexus Architecture 
     • venue: Electric Workshop (Trade Routes - History & Geography), 2nd Johannesburg Biennale, South Africa
     • type: Biennale, curator: Okwui Enwezor
117. • All in One Basket Act I (Produire Créer Collectionner) 
     • venue: Musée du Luxembourg, Paris, France
     • type: Group
118. • PSI Open 
     • venue: PSI, New York, USA
     • type: Group
119. • Bournes Citoyenne (Ici et Maintenant) 
     • venue: La Villette, Paris, France
     • type: Group
120. • Touche pour Voir 
     • venue: Le Creux de l’Enfer, Thiers, France
     • type: Group
121. • Ici et Ailleurs 
     • venue: Le Parvis, Tarnes, France
     • type: Solo
122. • 1996
     • Modular Architecture 
     • venue: La Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Soirées Nomades, Paris, France
     • type: Solo performance
123. • Refuge Wear- Nexus Architecture 
     • venue: Intervention Soho Festival, New York, USA
     • type: Intervention
124. • Refuge Wear 
     • venue: Espace d’Art Yvonamor Palix, Paris, France
     • type: Solo
125. • Visual Reports 
     • venue: ICC Cultural Centre, Antwerp, Belgium
     • type: Group
126. • Nexus Architecture (On Route to Mex) 
     • venue: Art & Idea, Mexico City, Mexico
     • type: Group, curator: Jade Dellinger
127. • Commune Communicate (Actions Urbaines) 
     • venue: Casino Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
     • type: Group
128. • Commune Communicate Act I 
     • venue: Metz detention centre/Metz city centre, Metz, France
     • type: Community workshop
129. • Identity + Refuge Act II (Shopping) 
     • venue: Deitch Projects / Salvation Army, New York, USA
     • type: Group, curator: Jérôme Sans
130. • L’art du plastique 
     • venue: Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts, Paris, France
     • type: Group, curator: Robert Fleck
131. • Refuge Wear 
     • venue: Première Vision/international textile trade fair, Paris, France
     • type: Group
132. • 1995
     • Identity + Refuge Act I 
     • venue: Salvation Army Cité de Refuge, Paris, France
     • type: Pilot workshop and catwalk performance
133. • Shopping 
     • venue: CAPC Musée d’art contemporain / TATI, Bordeaux, france
     • type: Group, curator: Jérôme Sans
134. • Nexus Architecture - Collective Wear x 16 
     • venue: Intervention XLVI Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
     • type: Intervention with Jorge Orta
135. • Survival Kits (On Board) 
     • venue: Venice Biennale - Off project, Venice, Italy
     • type: Group, curator: Jérôme Sans
136. • Untilted 
     • venue: Kulturhuset, Stockholm, Sweeden
     • type: Group
137. • 1994
     • Refuge Wear 
     • venue: Intervention Montparnasse station, Paris, France
     • type: Intervention
138. • Nexus Architecture x 8 
     • venue: Intervention Cité La Noue, Montreuil, France
     • type: Intervention
139. • Refuge Wear 
     • venue: Intervention Louvre / Le Pont des Arts, Paris, France
     • type: Intervention
140. • Ateliers 94, Refuge Wear 
     • venue: Musée d’art moderne de la ville de Paris - ARC, Paris, France
     • type: Group
141. • Refuge Wear 
     • venue: Salvation Army Cité de Refuge, Paris, France
     • type: Community workshop
142. • 1993
     • Art Fonction Sociale! 
     • venue: Salvation Army Cité de Refuge, Paris, France
     • type: Group
143. • Body Ware: Habitus 
     • venue: Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris, France
     • type: Group, curator: Peter Fend / Sophie Vieille
144. • 1992
     • Studio Orta 
     • venue: Studio Orta Bastille, Paris, France
     • type: Inauguration
145. • Imprints on the Andes 
     • venue: Imprints on the Andes, Machu Picchu / Andes Mountain range, Peru
     • type: Intervention with Jorge Orta
146. • Poussière 
     • venue: Galerie Paris Bastille, Paris, France
     • type: Solo with Jorge Orta

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Public Art

1. • 2005-ongoing
   • Totipotent Cubicle 
   • Location: Saint Etienne
   • type: Public sculpture for the Cité de Design Saint Etienne
2. • Nexus Bridge 
   • Location: Leebank Middleway Attwoodgreen Birmingham
   • type: Proposal for a 20m span pedestrian bridge across the Leebank Middleway, linking two communities to the city centre
3. • Gateway 
   • Location: Commercial Square Attwood Green Birmingham
   • type: Proposal for the new Birmingham city park
4. • 2005-2006
   • Totipotent Atoll 
   • Location: Park Mirafiori Nord, Turin
   • type: Permanent public sculpture for the new city park
   • site: http://www.studio-orta.com/artwork_fiche.php?fk=&fs=8&fm=0&fd=0&of=1
5. • 2004-2005
   • Jardin Poetiques 
   • Location: Ecole Maternelle Suzanne Buisson, Chatenay Malabry
   • type: 1% landscape artwork
6. • 2004
   • L.O.G. 
   • Location: Birmingham
   • type: Lead artist: strategy for public artworks in the Attwood Green regeneration

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Academic

1. • 2010
   • University of Brighton
   • post: Honorary degree of Doctor of Letters
   • site: http://www.brighton.ac.uk/
2. • 2008
   • London College of Fashion (University of the Arts London)
   • post: Professor of Art, Fashion and the Environment
3. • European Cultural Parliament
   • post: Member
   • site: http://www.kulturparlament.com/
4. • 2007
   • Nottingham Trent University
   • post: Honorary Degree Master of Fine Art, School of Art and Design
   • site: http://www.ntu.ac.uk/
5. • 2006-2008
   • University of the Arts London
   • post: Member, Fashion Body and Material Culture Research Centre
   • site: http://www.fashion.arts.ac.uk/23630.htm
6. • 2005-2008
   • London College of Fashion (University of the Arts London)
   • post: Research coordinator, Artefact Hub
7. • 2004
   • University of Edinburgh
   • post: Particiapnt, ARHB/EPSRC's 'Designing in the 21st Century'
8. • 2002-2007
   • London College of Fashion (University of the Arts London)
   • post: Rootstein Hopkins Chair of Fashion, Professor
   • site: http://www.fashion.arts.ac.uk/15382.htm
9. • 2002-2005
   • Design Academy Eindhoven, Holland
   • post: Founding member and Head of Man & Humanity, Master in Industrial Design
   • site: http://www.designacademy.nl/indexen.htm
10. • 2002-2004
    • E.N.S.A.D. (École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs)
    • post: Visiting professor
11. • 2000-2001
    • Edinburgh College of Art
    • post: Virtual Fellow
12. • 1999-2002
    • E.N.S.A.D. (École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs)
    • post: Head tutor fashion/costume
13. • 1995-1999
    • Nottingham Trent Polytechnic
    • post: Bachelor of Arts with Honours in Fashion Knitwear Design

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Conferences - Masterclass Workshops

1. • 2013, 25-26 Oct
   • Creative Time Summit
   • type: Conference
   • venue: Creative Time, New York, USA
   • site: http://creativetime.org/summit/
2. • 2011, 7 March
   • Studio Orta
   • type: Public lecture
   • venue: San Francisco Art Institute , San Francisco, USA
   • site: http://www.sfai.edu/
3. • 2011, 6 June
   • Operational Aesthetics
   • type: Professorial Platform
   • venue: The Banqueting Hall, Chelsea College of Art and Design , London, UK
   • site: http://newsevents.arts.ac.uk/event/operational-aesthetics-lucy-orta/
4. • 2011, 30-31 March
   • Art, écologie & développement durable
   • type: Conference
   • venue: Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France
   • site: http://www.mnhn.fr/museum/foffice/transverse/transverse/accueil.xsp
5. • 2011, 27 Oct.
   • Women, Ecology and Art. Artistic glances to the environment from the feminine
   • type: Conference
   • venue: Facultat de Belles Arts, Barcelona, Spain
6. • 2010, 9 April
   • 22nd International Sculpture Conference
   • type: Conference
   • venue: Kings Place, London, UK
   • site: http://www.sculpture.org/
7. • 2010, 28 May
   • Klimakapseln (Climate Capsules)
   • type: Symposium
   • venue: HFBK - University of Fine Arts Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
   • site: http://www.hfbk-hamburg.de
8. • 2010, 27 Feb
   • Lucy + Jorge Orta: Water, Food, Antarctica and other projects
   • type: Key note
   • venue: Adelaide Festival, Adelaide, Australia
   • site: http://www.adelaidefestival.com.au/
9. • 2010, 19-20 March
   • Rising to the Climate Challenge: Artists and Scientists Imagine Tomorrow's World
   • type: Symposium
   • venue: Tate Modern in collaboration with the Royal Society, London, UK
   • site: http://channel.tate.org.uk/#media:/media/85119754001/84648297001&list:/media/85119754001
10. • 2009, 29 Oct.
    • Lucy Orta
    • type: Public lecture
    • venue: Plymouth Arts Centre , Plymouth, UK
    • site: http://www.plymouthartscentre.org/
11. • 2009, 17-20 March
    • Berlin unplugged or reconnected?
    • type: Conference
    • venue: Hamburger Bahnhof Museum fuer Gegenwart, Berlin, Germany
    • site: http://www.chead.ac.uk/berlin2009.html
12. • 2009, 10 Dec
    • Body Architecture
    • type: Public lecture
    • venue: University of Michigan, School of Art & Design, Michigan Theatre, Ann Arbor, USA
    • site: http://art-design.umich.edu
13. • 2008, 25 Oct
    • Culture, Media and Democracy
    • type: Presentation
    • venue: European Cultural Parliament, Liverpool, UK
    • site: http://www.antjewessels.de
14. • 2008, 17 Nov.
    • Remote Habitats (This is Tomorrow - Urban Utopias, Dystopias and Heteropias)
    • type: Lecture, discussion
    • venue: MIT Visual Arts lecture series, Massachusetts, USA
    • site: http://web.mit.edu/vap/
15. • 2008, 15 July
    • Embodied Energy
    • type: Jon Snow in conversation with Prue Lang and Professor Lucy Orta
    • venue: London Festival of Architecture, London, UK
    • site: http://www.grimshaw-architects.com/embodiedenergy.htm
16. • 2008
    • OrtaWater
    • type: Public lecture
    • venue: Reed College, Portland, Oregon, USA
    • site: http://web.reed.edu/gallery/
17. • Orta & de Cordier – Art on expedition
    • type: Public lecture
    • venue: Vlaams Cultuurhuis de Brakke Grond, Amsterdam, Holland
    • site: http://www.brakkegrond.nl/
18. • 2007
    • Refuge Wear / Body Architecture
    • type: Artist Talk
    • venue: School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, USA
    • site: http://www.saic.edu/art_design/vap/index.html#current_series
19. • Antarctic Village / OrtaWater
    • type: Keynote Speaker
    • venue: C6 Symposium: New Green World, Art for a Sustainable Ecological Conciousness, Chicago, USA
    • site: http://symposiumc6.com/speakers/orta
20. • Antarctic Village
    • type: Conference
    • venue: École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts, Paris, France
    • site: http://www.ensba.fr/actualites/actualites.asp
21. • Greenham Common - Lucy Orta and John Schofield
    • type: Conversation Lecture series, published paper
    • venue: Arnolfini, Bristol, UK
    • site: http://www.situations.org.uk/research_research_resource_situations_papers.htm
22. • 2006
    • D-Form_Emotive Nexus
    • type: Workshop
    • venue: 9th Havana Biennale, La Habana Vieja, Cuba
    • site: http://www.studio-orta.com/dform_project/
23. • Emergency Design, International Symposium
    • type: Key note speaker
    • venue: Institut für Designforschung Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
    • site: http://www.emergencydesign.hgkz.ch/
24. • OrtaWater 02
    • type: Lecture / Workshop
    • venue: Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Holland
    • site: http://www.fluidarchitecture.net
25. • Nexus Architecture
    • type: Lecture
    • venue: Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, USA
26. • The Design of Prosperity: OrtaWater
    • type: Keynote Speaker
    • venue: The Boras Summit on the Design of Change and Innovation, Boras, Sweden
    • site: http://www.thedesignofprosperity.se/speakers.asp?id=6
27. • 2005
    • Refuge Wear
    • type: Lecture
    • venue: Politecnico di Torino, Department of Architecture, Turin, Italy
28. • Body Architecture
    • type: Lecture
    • venue: Royal College of Art, London, UK
29. • OrtaWater 01
    • type: Master-class
    • venue: Fabrica, The Benetton Group communication research centre, Trevisso, Italy
    • site: http://www.fluidarchitecture.net
30. • 2004
    • Challenging the Frame
    • type: Key note speaker
    • venue: 8th ELIA - European League of Institutes of the Arts, Luzern, Switzerland
    • site: http://www.elia-artschools.org/conference/keynotes.htm
31. • Fashion on the Edge
    • type: Key note speaker / Workshop
    • venue: ARTEZ School of the Arts / Musis Sacrum, Arnhem, Holland
    • site: http://www.artez-academiearnhem.nl/index.cfm?nieuwe_taal_id=2
32. • Dwelling X
    • type: Public Lecture
    • venue: Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland, UK
33. • Nomad + Object, portable technology for erratic habitats’
    • type: Key note speaker
    • venue: University of Rome La Sapienza, Faculty of Architecture, Rome, Italy
34. • Dwelling X, Lucy Orta & Aran Chadwick in conversation
    • type: Public Lecture chaired by Professor Colin Fournier
    • venue: RIBA (Royal Institute for British Architects), London, UK
35. • Body Architecture
    • type: Lecture
    • venue: Central Saint Martins School of Design, London, UK
36. • Art04 Arts Council North West & BBC, chaired by Alain Yentob
    • type: Key note speaker
    • venue: Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester, UK
37. • 2003
    • Architecture Dialogues: Architectural Bodies, Reflective Spaces and Responsive Materials
    • type: Key note speaker
    • venue: Whitney Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
38. • Nomades in Residence: Body Architecture, Between Intervention and Survival
    • type: Moderated discussion: Lucy Orta & Catarina Leitao
    • venue: Van Allen Institute, New York, USA
39. • Public and Community Art
    • type: Key note speaker
    • venue: Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia
40. • Dwelling Project
    • type: Key note speaker / Workshop
    • venue: University of Minnesota Design Institute & School of Architecture, Minnesota, USA
41. • London Design Week, World Creative Design Forum’
    • type: Key note speaker
    • venue: Bloomberg, London, UK
42. • Refuge Wear and other works
    • type: Speaker
    • venue: Gallery 101, Ottawa, Canada
43. • Women in Design Symposium
    • type: Key note speaker
    • venue: University Pennsylvania Graduate School Fine Art, Pennsylvania, USA
44. • Public Interventions Symposium
    • type: Speaker
    • venue: Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venice, Italy
45. • Contemporary Issues
    • type: Lecture:
    • venue: Kingston University School of Art and Design, Kingston, UK
46. • 2002
    • From Material Things, new geographies of visual culture
    • type: Key note speaker
    • venue: The British Museum, London, UK
47. • 2001
    • The More Things Change
    • type: Key Speaker
    • venue: I.D.C.A. International Design Conference Aspen, Aspen, Colorado
48. • Soul of Design
    • type: Key Speaker
    • venue: Design Academy Eindhoven, Eindhoven, Holland
49. • 2000
    • Generazione delle Immagini, VII Racconti d’Identita
    • type: Speaker
    • venue: Commune of Milan, Milan, Italy
50. • 1999
    • Architecture Mobile et Nouvelles Cultures Urbaines
    • type: Round Table: Odile Decq, Claire Pétetin et Philippe Grégoire, Debis Gaudel, Lucy Orta, Marie-Claude Vachez, Paul Virillio
    • venue: École Supérieure de l’Architecture, Paris, France

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Awards

1. • 2007-2009
   • EU Funding Culture Programme (Education, Audio visual and Culture Executive Agency) 2007-2013: Co-operation Measures (Strand 1.2.1)
   • EU-Roma, a survey of Roma housing and culture. EU partners: TAMA Greece; LAN Italy; ATU Romania; LCF UAL London
2. • 2004-2008
   • Arts Council of England, South East: Artist production grant
   • Common Ground (Greenham Common)
3. • 2004-2005
   • The Wellcome Trust: Sciart research award
   • Totipotent Architecture
4. • 2003-2004
   • Arts Council of England, East Midlands: Artist production grant
   • Dwelling X
5. • Henry Moore Foundation: Artists production grant
   • Dwelling X
6. • 2003
   • AHRC: Small Grants in the Creative and Performing Arts
   • Dwelling X (Synoecismic Dwelling)
7. • 2001
   • Andy Warhol Foundation Grant
   • Awarded for the first American solo exhibition and US tour organised by the University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa
8. • 1993
   • Sissel d'Or
   • Prize for innovation awarded for Habitent - Refuge Wear

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