ABOUT AMY KARLE
Amy Karle is an internationally recognized ultra-contemporary artist and designer working across digital, physical, and biological systems. Her work explores how frontier science and emerging technologies reshape life, intelligence, evolution, and what it means to be human, from cells to societies, from quantum phenomena to the cosmos, and from the present into deep futures.
Karle’s practice positions art and design as rigorous forms of inquiry within contemporary conversations about technology, humanity, ethics, and the future. Through research, museum-grade artworks, institutional collaboration, and public dialogue, she creates works that make complex scientific and technological transformations culturally and ethically intelligible.
Karle works across bioart, biodesign, AI, biotechnology, regenerative medicine, and deep-time space archives. In collaboration with scientists, engineers, laboratories, museums, and organizations, she translates complex systems into sculpture, installation, performance, interactive media, and public art.
Her work has been exhibited internationally including at: Centre Pompidou, Mori Art Museum, and the Smithsonian. Karle has also been featured by and spoken at institutions and platforms including NASA, CERN, NVIDIA, and TEDAI. Karle was recognized as one of BBC’s 100 Women and served as an Artist Diplomat through the U.S. Department of State’s American Arts Incubator. Her work has been featured in outlets including BBC, WIRED, and Forbes, as well as in books and, according to Academia.edu, over 6,200 academic mentions and citations. For curators, collectors, institutions, research partners, and publics, Karle’s work offers artworks and frameworks for understanding and shaping the cultural, ethical, and existential stakes of technological transformation.
“I use my Artwork as a means to express and study my own experience.
I offer it to others as an experience to relate to.”
– Amy Karle
Awards & Honors
- Artist Diplomat, American Arts Incubator | US Department of State ›
- American Visions National Art Award
- BBC 100 Women
- Endowed Performance Fund
- Lumen Prize Identity & Culture Award Finalist ›
- Most Influential Women in 3D Printing
- National Gallery of Art Silver Key Award
- New York State Senate Excelsior Award
- Pinnacle Award: Best of Show honor from Corcoran Museum of Art
- Pioneer Art Award
- Pioneer in Design Lifetime Achievement Award
- Presidential Honor of Distinction
- YouFab Global Creative Award, Grand Prize
Residencies
- Autodesk Artist in Residence
- Centrum Nauki Kopernik | Copernicus Science Centre
- Experimental Television Center (ETC)
- Glitch
- HP Labs (Hewlett Packard)
- Interstellar
- Signal Culture
- Studio Quantum (Goethe-Institut)
- Wisdom Beyond
- AIxMUSIC hackathon residency | Ars Electronica
- Bio x AI hackathon
Fellowships
- Salzburg Global Fellow 2018-present
Board Member
- Interstellar Foundation 2024 – present
Speaking Engagements
2025
- “Computing the Next Evolution” Short Talk and “From Silicon to Surrealism: The Fusion of Art, AI, and HPC” Art of HPC Panel, SC25 Supercomputing. St. Louis, MO, USA ›
- “Resonant Futures: Art, Tech, and Time” Art Meets Tech Workshop Series. Goethe-Institut. Online ›
- “Mirrors of Emergence: AI & Interbeing” Wisdom Beyond. CA, USA
- “Collective Intelligence by Design: An Artist’s Blueprint from Healing the Body to Shaping the Future” Ecosystems 2030 Summit. A Coruña, Spain ›
- “Quantum Inspiration: The Art of Deep Observation and Consciousness Navigation” Talk. Quantum Computers and Art: How and Why. DESY. Zeuthen and Berlin, Germany ›
- “Collective Intelligence” Human+Tech Week. San Francisco, CA, USA ›
- “Re-Forming Design” SF Design Week. California College of the Arts. San Francisco, CA, USA
- “Human-Centered Design in a Machine-Centered Future” Panel Discussion. TEDAI San Francisco in partnership with IDEO. San Francisco, CA, USA ›
- “Awakening Between AI & Art” BEDI | 798 Art District. Beijing, China
- “The Art of What’s Next”. NVIDIA GTC, Design AI Live. San Jose, CA, USA
- “Quantum-Bio-AI, Space, Time, and Far Futures. Why Quantum Technology Needs Art: A Perspective from Artist & Futurist Amy Karle”. Quantum Art Festival. Japan & Online ›
- “Exponential Evolution”. NASA GSFC 2nd AI Symposium “Synergies Across Multiple Domains: Shaping the Future of AI”. NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. Washington, DC
2024
- “What About Aliens”. Fireside Chat, Xpanse, Abu Dhabi, UAE ›
- “The Next Evolution”. Glitch, Château du Fey, Villecien, France
- “Evolving Intelligence”. Universität der Künste Berlin, Berlin, Germany ›
- “Time: Deep Time and Far Futures”. Interstellar Foundation, Online ›
- “Resonance: AI and the Infinite Mirror”. Heron Arts, San Francisco, CA, USA ›
- “Creative Tech for Inclusive Communities”. SF Tech Week, Gray Area, San Francisco, CA, USA ›
- United Nations Summit of The Future, Smart Futures Exchange, NY, NY, USA ›
- “Designing Tomorrow”. Pioneers in Design, San Francisco, CA, USA
- “Creating Futures: Art and AI for Tomorrow’s Narratives”. Salzburg Global Seminar, Salzburg, Austria ›
- “Artists Exploring Creativity and Language With Generative AI”. NVIDIA GTC, San Jose, CA, USA & Online ›
- “The Next Evolution”. Interstellar Foundation, Online
- “Quantum Art with Amy Karle”. Human Nurture Salon Series. San Francisco, CA, USA ›
- “Amy Karle: Studio Quantum”. Goethe-Institut, Irland, Online
2023
- “Scripting the Future”. Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology. Warsaw, Poland & Online.
- “Daring to Explore Quantum Creativity: How Can Art Help Us Understand Quantum Technologies?” Berlin Science Week, Einstein Center for Digital Futures, Berlin, Germany ›
- “Frontiers of Human Enhancement: Exploring Potentials Through Art, Design & Biotechnology”, Panel: “Repair or Upgrade? Bionic Organs”. Przemiany Festival, Copernicus Science Centre. Warsaw, Poland ›
- “Machine Dreams and Bio-Realities: Mapping Identity and Humanity Through Art and Technology”. Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Art and Design, Wrocław, Poland ›
- Opening Keynote: “From Imagination to Innovation: The Power of Artistic and Emergent Technology’s Synergy in Envisioning and Co-Creating the Future”. 1st International Conference Methodological and Cognitive Aspects of Visual Arts. Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Art and Design, Wrocław, Poland ›
- “Digital Dreams and Bio-Realities: Reimagining Humanity Through Art and Technology”. LASER Talk | Leonardo Art Science Evening, Stanford University Medical School, CA, USA & Online ›
- “Intersecting Intelligences: Machine Dreams, Bio-architecture & Identity”. unMuted Lecture Series, Academy of Art University, CA, USA & Online ›
- “Humanity x Technology: The Next Evolution”. Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan & Online
- “Imagine the Future through Art”. Sapporo, Japan & Online.
- “AI: The Next Evolution”. Chimaera Gallery. Baltimore, MD, USA & Online
- “Tugging at the Roots of AI”. Treasury Space. San Francisco, CA, USA
2022
- “An Artist’s Ghost: Art, Exponential Technology, & Embodiment: Artist Talk & Conversation with Artist Amy Karle” hosted by SuperRare. Online ›
- Artist Talk: “Art x Emerging Technology”. Contemporary Art Platform(CAP) Kuwait. Kuwait & Online ›
- CERN Sparks! Forum: Future Technology for Health. (video in conference) Globe of Science and Innovation at CERN. Geneva, Switzerland & Online ›
- “Humanity x Technology” HP Labs. Palo Alto, California, USA
- Conference Lecture: “Design for a Phygital World: New Challenges”. Sapienza Design Factory Lab. Rome, Italy and Online ›
- Artist Talk. ESC Medien Kunst Labor. Online
- “The Work and Practice of Amy Karle: Art, Technology, Embodiment, & Beyond”. Alfred University Artist Speaker Series. Alfred, NY, USA and Online
2021
- Artist Talk: “An Artist’s Ghost: Embodiment, Exponential Technology, & Afterlife”. subnetTALK. Online & TV ›
- Panel Discussion (host and participant): “Pushing the Limits of Additive Manufacturing in Healthcare”. Women in 3D Printing Wi3DP TIPE conference. Online ›
2020
- Presentation: “New Worlds: AI x Music” Ars Electronica Festival. Online & TV ›
- Conversation: “Artist + Scientists: Future Visions” Science Gallery Rotterdam at Erasmus MC. Online ›
- “(UN)REAL Science Gallery Rotterdam Online Artist Talks” Science Gallery Rotterdam at Erasmus MC. Online ›
- Lecture: “Amy Karle: The Investigative Studio: Biodesign, Technology, Embodiment, & Beyond” California College of the Arts. San Francisco, California, USA
2019
- Talk: “The Future Human: Who will we become under the influence of technology?” | BBC 100 Women 2019 – The Female Future. London, England ›
- Talk: “Human Modification at the Dawn of the Biotech Era.” Innovative City Forum: How Humanity Will Live Tomorrow. Future and Arts Session, Lifestyle and the Augmented Body. Roppongi Academy Hills, Mori Tower. Tokyo, Japan ›
- Artist Talk: “The State of Us” The Lowry. Manchester, England
- Lecture: “The Embodiment of Technology” | Congreso de Ingeniería Biomédica. Monterrey, Mexico & Online
- Roundtable Discussion: Les Salons Stochastiques #4: Human Modification at the Dawn of Biotech. Stochastic Labs. Berkeley, California, USA
- Artist Talk: “Amy Karle: Art x Technology x Humanity” Adobe. San Francisco, California, USA
- HP Tech Talk: Artist Amy Karle. HP Labs. Palo Alto, California, USA
- Talk: “La Fabrique du Vivant” (Designing the Living) | Forum Vertigo (Symposium) IRCAM / Centre Pompidou. Paris, France
2018
- Closing Keynote | Cross Innovation Conference. Hamburg, Germany
- Talk: “Can We Design Happiness?” Innovative City Forum: Designing Life for Future. Ropppongi Academy Hills, Mori Tower. Tokyo, Japan ›
- Keynote: “Post-Life: At What Point is Transcendence?” Beijing Media Arts Biennale. CAFA Museum of Modern Art. Beijing, China ›
- Lecture: “Data Dreams, Mechanical Animals & Biotranscendence: Artist Amy Karle in Conversation With the Future”. The Central Academy of Fine Arts. Beijing, China ›
- Keynote: “New Media Diplomacy | Empowerment in the BioTech Era”. American Arts Incubator at Centrum Nauki Kopernik. Warsaw, Poland ›
- Artist Talk: “Laboratorium Artystyczne: Ciało otwarte. Eksperyment” (“Artistic Laboratory: Body Open Experiment”). Copernicus LATES: The Laboratory of Life, Centrum Nauki Kopernik. Warsaw, Poland ›
- Future Innovators Summit | FIS Tokyo. Think tank, talks and presentations on DEATH-LIFE, using Tokyo as the laboratory for the future. Tokyo, Japan ›
- Closing Keynote: “Metamorphosis: Fashion’s Immersive Future.” Tech Fashion Week 2018. San Francisco, CA, USA ›
- Opening Keynote: “The Shock of the New: Arts, Technology, and Making Sense of the Future“ Salzburg Global Seminar, Session 593. Salzburg, Austria ›
- “How Biotechnology can be used to Unlock Creativity and Human Potential” BioClub × YouFab Amy Karle トークイベント Hosted by BioClub, YouFab and Media Culture in Asia: A Transnational Platform (MeCA). Tokyo, Japan
- Keynote Grand Prize Acceptance Speech: “Collaborative Futures: Design, Technology and Art.” YouFab Global Creative Awards. Tokyo, Japan ›
2017
- Closing Keynote: “Our Role in a Bionic Future” Biomedical Lecture: 3rd International Interdisciplinary 3D Conference. Szentágothai Research Centre, University of Pécs, Hungary ›
- “Artifacts of a Speculative Future” Arts and Design Lecture: 3rd International Interdisciplinary 3D Conference. Szentágothai Research Centre, University of Pécs, Hungary ›
- Keynote: “Future Fashion: Automation, Customization, Fabrication, Presentation” Fashion Tech Week NY. New York, USA and Online ›
- Future Innovators Summit: talks, think tank and presentations on using AI to enable Future Humanity. Linz, Austria ›
- Artist Talk: “Diagramming Bionic Futures: Creating the Material, Revealing the Spiritual”. FILE Electronic Language International Festival. FIESP, São Paulo, Brazil ›
- Opening Keynote: 3DHEALS: 2017 Global Healthcare 3D Printing Conference. UCSF, San Francisco, CA ›
2016
- Opening Keynote: Human Organogenesis: Bio-Print Me. San Francisco, CA ›
- Closing Keynote: 2nd International Interdisciplinary 3D Conference. Szentágothai Research Centre, University of Pécs, Hungary ›
- Bypassing Biology: A Discussion of Futurism, Transhumanism, and Design in a Technologically Augmented Future. University of Baltimore, MD ›
- Future Factories: Experimenting at the Edges of the Next Industrial Revolution. California College of the Arts Digital Craft Lab, San Francisco, CA ›
- Artist Talk. Autodesk Pier 9, San Francisco, CA ›
- REAL Capture > Compute > Create Reality Computing Conference. San Francisco, CA
- “Designing with the Building Blocks of Life”. X-Summit. San Francisco, CA
Exhibitions
2026
2025
- “Carrousel du Louvre” Art Fair. Carrousel du Louvre. Paris, France. ›
- “In The Ether” ArtScience Museum. Singapore. ›
- Art of HPC Gallery (SC25). Supercomputing. St. Louis, MO, USA
- “The Golden Archive” Screening. Digital Design Weekend. Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) London, UK. ›
- “The Golden Archive” Screening. Onassis ONX. New York, NY, USA.
- “Future of Humanity” Art Basel. Basel, Switzerland ›
- “A Pulse in the Stream” Public art on facade of Beijing Digital Economy AI & Data Center, commissioned by Beijing 798 Culture and Technology Co., Ltd. (798 Art District), Beijing, China (ongoing)
- NVIDIA AI Art Gallery. NVIDIA. Online ›
- “A Retrospective For The Future” The Moon, Space ›
- “Future of Humanity: Redefining the Boundaries of Humanity” World Economic Forum. Davos, Switzerland ›
- “Alias: Beyond Creation” Artverse Gallery. Paris, France ›
- “The Golden Archive” The Moon, Space ›
- “Echoes From The Valley Of Existence” The Moon, Space ›
- Museum of Ideas. The Moon, Space ›
- ENNOVA Art Biennale, ENNOVA Art Museum. Langfang, China (cntd from 2024) ›
2024
- ENNOVA Art Biennale, ENNOVA Art Museum. Langfang, China ›
- “Fertile Void” Haus der Kulturen der Welt. Berlin, Germany ›
- “Future Artifacts” Smart Futures Exchange, United Nations, New York, USA ›
- “The Last Snow”, Sapporo International Art Festival SIAF Triennial, Future Theater. Sapporo, Japan ›
- “Dreaming New Worlds”, Untitled Gallery. Lagos, Nigeria, Africa
2023
- Nova Rio Biennale of Art and Technology, Museu do Amanhã. Río de Janeiro, Brazil ›
- “Desert of Realities” ESC Medien Kunst Labor. Graz, Austria ›
- “Superorganism” Exhibition, Przemiany Festival, Copernicus Science Center. Warsaw, Poland ›
- “AI: The Next Evolution” Chimaera Gallery. Baltimore, MD, USA & Virtual ›
- BioDesign Challenge, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) NY, USA
- NFT.NYC Artist Gallery, Showcase, and Times Square Billboard NY, USA›
- “Unknown Unknowns” Milano Triennale, Italy (cntd from 2022) ›
2022
- “Unknown Unknowns” Milano Triennale, Italy ›
- “WAGMI: Kuwait’s First IRL NFT Exhibition” at the Contemporary Art Platform (CAP) Kuwait ›
- “Perfect Body” ESC Medien Kunst Labor. Graz, Austria ›
- “Art, Design & Technology” Astro Studios, San Francisco Design Week. USA
- “The Skull Collection” NFT.NYC 2022, New York, New York, USA
- “The Skull Collection” (Solo Show) Wake Gallery. OnCyber, The Metaverse ›
- “Gaia: Gene, Algorithm, Intelligent Design and Automata_ A Mirage Self, The Other Realm” The Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei (MoCA) Taipei, Taiwan ›
2021
- “Future U” RMIT Gallery. Melbourne, Australia (continued through 2022) ›
- “Am I Human to You?” KUBE Art Museum. Ålesund, Norway ›
2020
- “Regeneration Through Technology” The Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History. Washington, DC USA ›
- “[UN]REAL” Science Gallery Rotterdam at Erasmus MC. Rotterdam, The Netherlands ›
- Ars Electronica .ART Global Gallery. Online, Global
- Ars Electronica: “In Kepler’s Gardens”. Ars Electronica Garden Rotterdam. Rotterdam, The Netherlands ›
- “Future and the Arts: How Humanity Will Live Tomorrow” Mori Art Museum. Tokyo, Japan (continued from 2019) ›
2019
- “Future and the Arts: How Humanity Will Live Tomorrow” Mori Art Museum. Tokyo, Japan ›
- “The State of Us” The Lowry. Manchester, England ›
- “Future Art and Life, Post Life” Tian Contemporary Art Space. Shanghai, China
- “Life. As We Know It, And Beyond” MuseOn. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- “La Fabrique Du Vivant” (Designing the Living) Centre Pompidou. Paris, France ›
2018
- “Post Life” Beijing Media Art Biennale. Beijing, China ›
- “Future Humanity – Our Shared Planet” Beijing, China ›
- Ars Electronica Tokyo. Tokyo, Japan
- Solo Show: Planetarium Show. Heavens of Copernicus Planetarium, Centrum Nauki Kopernik. Warsaw, Poland ›
- “Layers of Life: What is Life in The Biotech Era?” Centrum Nauki Kopernik. Warsaw, Poland ›
- “Imagination Manifests”. Youth Square. Hong Kong, China ›
- “L.A.S.T. Exhibition”. SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford University. CA, USA ›
- “Collaborative Futures – Design, Technology and Art”. Good Design Marunouchi. Tokyo, Japan ›
2017
- “The Body & Technology: A Conversational Metamorphosis” SOLO SHOW San Francisco, CA USA ›
- Ars Electronica: “Artificial Intelligence: AI / The Other I”. Linz, Austria ›
- FILE Electronic Language International Festival. São Paulo, Brazil ›
- Byron Bay International Film Festival, Australia ›
- ASOVFF 9: A Shaded View on Fashion Film International Festival. Sofia, Bulgaria ›
- Convergence Film Festival. Sydney, Australia ›
2016
- Autodesk Pier 9 Artist in Residence Fall Show. San Francisco, CA
- Imagine Science Film Festival. NY, NY ›
- Mykonos Multimedia Festival. Mykonos, Greece
- Autodesk Pier 9 Artist in Residence Spring AiR Show. San Francisco CA
- “Chronodrift” The Lumber Room. Portland, OR
2015
2014
- ISEA (International Symposium on Electronic Art), Dubai ›
- “Off The Screen” Exploratorium, San Francisco CA ›
2013
- “The Art Of Code” Imagine Science Film Festival, NY ›
- “Medium as Media” Galerie Chartier, CT
- “100,000 Artists and Poets for Change” Just Buffalo Literary Center, NY
- “Poetic Micro Videos” Squeaky Wheel Media Arts Access Center, NY
- World TV Video Art online
2012
- Music Concourse in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco CA
2011
- “Now. Showing” Scholastic Art Awards benefit, NY
- Detroit Institute of Arts Museum, Detroit MI
2010
- “The Artist is Present” MoMA participation in performance with and by Artist Marina Abromovic, NY
2005
- “CONCEPT::CREATE::CURE”, American Cancer Society benefit, NY ›
- “Still”, Anthony Brunelli Fine Arts, NY
- “Boxed In”, Orazio Salati Gallery, NY
2003
- “Fashionably Detroit” benefit, Detroit, MI
2002
- “Dislocation” Binns Merrill Hall, NY ›
- 23rd Annual Outdoor Light Exhibition, The Museum of Luminous Phenomenon, NY
- “Wearing Whatchamacallit” Robert Turner Gallery, NY
- Valentine’s Day Installation John Wood Studios, NY ›
2001
- “What Remains” ArtSite, NY ›
- “No Frills” AIDS Community Services fashion show benefit, Hamlin House, NY
- “Context, Construct, Code” ArtSite, NY ›
- “Fabric of Remembrance” Division of Expanded Media at Alfred University, NY
- “Double Talk” Division of Expanded Media at Alfred University, NY ›
2000
- “Slipping Away” Ithaca, NY
- Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center, Buffalo NY
- “Thumbs-Tied” year-long performance
1999
- “Losing Sole” ArtSite, NY
- “No Frills” AIDS Community Services fashion show benefit, Club e, NY
1998
- Corcoran Museum of Art, Washington, DC
- Arnot Art Museum, NY
1997
- National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
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