Refik Anadol
Cultural Fellow
Refik Anadol (b. 1985, Istanbul, Turkey) is an internationally renowned media artist and pioneer in the aesthetics of data and machine intelligence. He is the Director and co-founder of Refik Anadol Studio in Los Angeles and teaching at UCLA’s Department of Design Media Arts from which he obtained a Master of Fine Arts. Refik Anadol Studio brings together a globally diverse team of designers, architects, data scientists, and researchers—originating from 10 countries and fluent in 12 languages—who share a deep commitment to inclusion, equity, and cross-cultural collaboration at every stage of artistic production. Anadol is also the co-founder of Dataland, the world’s first Museum of AI Arts. Opening at The Grand LA in 2025, Dataland promises unparalleled, multisensory experiences at a scale and quality never before realized with real-time interactions between museum and audience.
Refik Anadol’s work locates creativity at the intersection of humans and machines. Taking the data that surrounds us as primary material, and the neural network of a computerized mind as a collaborator, Anadol offers us radical visualizations of our digitized memories and expands the possibilities of interdisciplinary arts. Anadol’s AI data paintings and sculptures, live audio/visual performances, and immersive installations take many forms, while encouraging us to rethink our engagement with the physical world, public art, decentralized networks, and the creative potential of AI. Entire buildings come to life. Floors, walls, and ceilings disappear into infinity. Breathtaking aesthetics take shape from large swaths of data, and what was once invisible to the human eye becomes visible, offering the audience a new perspective on, and narrative of their environments.
Anadol’s works have been featured at iconic landmarks, museums, galleries and festivals worldwide, such as MoMA, Centre Pompidou-Metz, Serpentine Galleries, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Pinakothek der Moderne, EMMA Museum, Art Basel, Haus der elektronischen Künste, Kunsthalle Praha, Arken Museum, Palazzo Strozzi, Casa Batlló, National Gallery of Victoria, Museum of the Future Dubai, Walt Disney Concert Hall, World Economic Forum, Venice Architecture Biennale – La Biennale di Venezia, Hammer Museum, Jeffrey Deitch, Dongdaemun Design Plaza, Kunsthal Rotterdam, Daejeon Museum of Art, Florence Biennale, OFFF Festival, International Digital Arts Biennial Montreal, Ars Electronica Festival, The Sphere, The Kennedy Center, Intuit Dome, Arc De Triomf, Istanbul Modern, Contemporary Art Center, Istanbul Design Biennial, and ZKM | Center for Art and New Media, among many others.
Refik Anadol (Schwarzman Centre Lau Fellow in Creativity and AI in collaboration with Exeter College)
