Krzysztof Wodiczko

Krzysztof Wodiczko is an internationally renowned artist recognized for his impactful large-scale projections on monuments and institutional facades. He has extensively addressed trauma and healing in his projections, honoring people’s stories of pain, loss, and perseverance. Over the years, these projections have evolved from still slides to live and recorded videos, incorporating individuals' faces, voices, and narratives.

Biography of Krzysztof Wodiczko

Krzysztof Wodiczko was born in 1943 in Warsaw, Poland. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, obtaining an MFA in 1968. 

He is a professor emeritus at the Harvard Graduate School of Design in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and lectures at the Faculty of Media Art of the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts and the Weitzman School of Design at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.

The artist has received numerous awards, including the Hiroshima Art Prize, the György Kepes Fellowship Prize, the Katarzyna Kobro Prize, and the Gloria Artis Medal from the Minister of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland.

Wodiczko has executed over 90 site-specific projections in more than 40 cities worldwide. Notable projects include the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, DC; the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York; Kraków’s City Hall Tower in Poland; Boston’s Bunker Hill Monument; Kunstmuseum Basel in Switzerland; the Goethe-Schiller Monument in Weimar, Germany; and the Admiral Farragut Monument in Madison Square Park, New York City.

Currently, he lives and works in New York City and Cambridge, Massachusetts.