Anna Dumitriu is an award winning, internationally renowned, British artist who works with BioArt, sculpture, installation, and digital media to explore our relationship to infectious diseases, synthetic biology and robotics. She has an extensive international exhibition profile including ZKM, Ars Electronica, BOZAR, The Picasso Museum, Kunstlerhaus Vienna, MIT Museum, Liljevalchs, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, MOCA Taipei, HeK Basel, LABoral, Art Laboratory Berlin, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, the 6th Guangzhou Triennial, and The History of Science Museum Oxford. Her work is held in several major collections, including ZKM (recent acquisition), the Science Museum London and Eden Project.
Dumitriu is a renowned speaker and has presented talks on her work at prestigious venues including TATE Modern, Princeton University, Imperial College London, The University of Oxford, La Musee de la Chasse et de la Nature, and UCLA. She was the 2018 President of the Science and the Arts section of the British Science Association.
Her work is featured in many books including Bio Art: Altered Realities published by Thames and Hudson in 2016 and many other significant publications across contemporary art and science including Frieze, Artforum International Magazine, Leonardo Journal, The Art Newspaper, Art Quarterly, Nature and The Lancet.
She holds visiting research fellowships at the University of Hertfordshire, and Waag, as well as artist-in-residence roles with the NIHR Biomedical Research Centre in Leeds, Modernising Medical Microbiology Project at the University of Oxford, and with the National Collection of Type Cultures at the UK Health Security Agency.
Current collaborations also include “Greening the Lab: Decarbonising Biomedical Science” with the EU VOICE Project, exploring yeast research with the Department of Microbial Biotechnology at BOKU University, exploring one health and antimicrobial resistance with Oxford Culture/Oxford University and exploring AI and infection prevention with Brighton and Sussex Medical School.
Recent projects include: “Black Rock Beachcombers“, “The Mutability of Memories and Fates” with Institute of Epigenetics and Stem Cells at Helmholtz Zentrum München, “Unruly Objects” exploring conservation of antiquities and contemporary BioArt with the Department of Antiquities and Works of Art at University of West Attica, an exploration of the use of artificial intelligence in healthcare support systems with the EU CAPABLE Project, Collateral Effects which explores the hidden impacts of the pandemic from cultural and scientific perspectives, the EU Better Factory project in a project which explores how biomaterials and augmented reality can impact sustainability and the circular economy in wine production,“Mysteries and Mycotoxins” with Cranfield University funded by a 2023 Massee Award from the British Mycological Society, “Biotechnology from the Blue Flower” with the EU H2020 CHIC Consortium exploring new plant breeding methods and CRISPR, “Fermenting Futures” focussed on yeast biotechnology in collaboration with the Institute of Microbial Biotechnology at BOKU in Vienna “Cyberspecies Proximity” with Schindler as part of an EU Vertigo S+T+ARTS residency exploring how we will share cities of the future with robots; “ArchaeaBot: A Post Singularity and Post-Climate Change Life-form” an underwater robot based on the most ancient forms of life on each, created through an EMAP residency with LABoral, “Precious Cells” with the Human Developmental Biology Initiative and the Gurdon Institute at the University of Cambridge, and “Entangled Health” via a 2021 Institute of Advanced Studies Fellowship at the University of Surrey.
