Federico Díaz

A visual artist of Czech-Argentine descent uses new media to reveal material elements of the natural environment that are imperceptible to the human senses. He employs artificial intelligence and contemporary materials in his work. ’s Resume He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague (1990–1997), where he studied successively in the studios led by Karel Malich, Stanislav Kolíbal, and Aleš Veselý. In 1993, he received an Alexander-Dorner-Kreis scholarship. He also completed a fellowship at the Cité internationale des arts in Paris and at the Soros Center for Contemporary Art. He lectured at Masaryk University in Brno, where he helped establish the digital media specialization at the Faculty of Social Studies. In Prague, from 2008 to 2014, he was the head of the Supermedia Studio at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design (VŠUP), which he founded together with David Kořínek (a member of the Rafani group). He has also lectured at Columbia University in New York, Storefront for Art and Architecture, the University at Buffalo, New York University, ETH Zurich (the Gramazia and Kohler Architecture Department), and at the Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) in Troy, New York, for the Rensselaer School of Architecture. He lives and works in Prague. Since the early 1990s, he has exhibited at leading new media festivals and group exhibitions in Europe and Japan. He had his first solo exhibition at the Prague City Gallery in 1997. Since then, he has exhibited in the Czech Republic at the Brno House of Arts, the Moravian Gallery, the Mánes Exhibition Hall, the Prague Castle Riding Hall, and the National Gallery in Prague. He has also exhibited at a number of prominent international institutions: the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) and the Royal Institute of British Architects, London; the ZKM Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe (2004); the Fondation Électricité de France, Paris (2003); Ars Electronica Festival, Linz (2005); Mori Art Museum, Tokyo (2005); MASS MoCA, Massachusetts (2010); the 53rd Venice Biennale (2011). In 2018, he unveiled the monumental public sculpture *Subtile* in California. WORK , *Big Light: Vessels* Cast glass sculpture Lhotský Glassworks, 2019