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Bio Art Curation

Bio Art Curation

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Yihan Shi
Yihan Shi

Weekly curated articles showcasing the most visually compelling works at the intersection of biology and art, from lab-grown sculptures to DNA paintings and biotech installations.

Bio Art Curation
Bio Art Curation
2026-10-30

A rhino of pixels, a bird's last song and a fungus named after Beatrix Potter: five works built from what is left of a species

Five works built from what is left of a species — a 1987 birdsong, a fossil fungus named after Beatrix Potter, 648 pressed plants, a rhino rebuilt from research footage and an 1897 watercolour — four of them on view this autumn in Nashville and Exeter.

Bio Art Curation
Bio Art Curation
2026-10-23

A man of pulled weeds, a floor of soil from fried chicken bones and a fruit battery: five works built to rot

Five works whose material is left to come apart on its own — fruit wired to a lamp, a gallery floor of soil made from fried chicken bones, fruit offerings on stones, a figure bound from pulled weeds, and mould-printed cloth — and what a museum does with a piece it cannot preserve.

Bio Art Curation
Bio Art Curation
2026-10-16

A cast shadow, a flower clock and ten thousand waking bees: six works built out of the daily light cycle

Six works built out of the daily light cycle — cress grown in a performer's shadow, a flower clock now running in Graz, a bee colony waking from anaesthesia, fireflies exposing 16 mm film, three years of a body's sleep woven in silk, and three strangers steered toward one dream.

Bio Art Curation
Bio Art Curation
2026-10-09

Soil plots, pond water and a six-year bacterial colony: five artworks made inside a research project

Five bio art works that could only exist because an artist was let inside a study already under way — a six-year bacterial colony grown into a human face, two soil reactors fed on sound, seven plots of drying soil turned into audio, a Berlin pond read as genetic data, and a Finnish pine being taught to move north.

Bio Art Curation
Bio Art Curation
2026-10-02

Sunken cars, fired clay, crocheted wool: five ways to make a reef

Five works that treat a coral reef as something to be built — two sunk in the sea for coral and fish to colonise, one a living reef watched live in Miami harbour, and two made by hand in ceramic and crochet.

Bio Art Curation
Bio Art Curation
2026-09-25

Cases, comb and silk: six bio art works built by insects

Six works — caddisfly cases in gold and pearls, silkworm silk stretched over wire bed-frames and spun inside machines, a Roman emperor's head of honeycomb, a sculpture crowned with a working hive, and beeswax brains under spotlights — in which the artist sets the conditions and the insect does the building.

Bio Art Curation
Bio Art Curation
2026-09-18

The lamp is alive: four bio art works lit by living organisms

Four works — bacterial drawings, a mirrored plankton cube, a breath-fed algal installation and a couture gown of living algae — in which the light is made by an organism rather than a bulb, and often set off by a visitor's own body.

Bio Art Curation
Bio Art Curation
2026-09-11

Glass, tanks, and living interfaces: four bio art works that give biology a room

Four bio-art works that use technical enclosures—from an illuminated artificial womb and responsive bacterial mirror to hermetic glass biospheres and a Martian simulation chamber—to sustain, transform, and challenge living matter.

Bio Art Curation
Bio Art Curation
2026-09-04

DNA, specimens, artificial life: five bio art works that make biology legible

Five bio-art works turn DNA, saliva, museum specimens, and computational rules into portraits, archives, and taxonomies of life.

Bio Art Curation
Bio Art Curation
2026-08-28

Four bio art works that turn living cultures into shared encounters

A visual curation of four bio art works that bring yeast, spirulina and cultured neurons into shared encounters through scent, edible pearls, fermentation sound and living computation.

Bio Art Curation
Bio Art Curation
2026-08-21

Four bio art works that turn biological traces into visible worlds

A visual curation of four bio art works that turn pigeon-associated microbes, disease research, bacterial cellulose and speculative soil life into visible forms.

Bio Art Curation
Bio Art Curation
2026-08-14

Four bio art works that turn living systems into portraits

A visual curation of four recent bio art works that give bacteria, species, speculative plants and amaranth distinct forms of identity.

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