Auriea Harvey
A sculptural practice spanning materials, uniting mythologies and personal lore.
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Artist Background
Auriea builds worlds.
Since the mid-1990s, Auriea has treated technology, networks, and interaction as artistic materials. Her works are intimate digital experiences that join mythology, autobiography, desire, and play.
In collaboration with Michaël Samyn as Entropy8Zuper! and Tale of Tales, Auriea created some of the earliest and most important art games, conceived as expressive environments in which play is organized around presence rather than winning, conquest, scores, or fixed endings.
“Auriea Harvey has persistently reimagined and redefined the creative boundaries of networked technologies for more than three decades.”
An Evolving Practice
From Worldsto Figures…
Over the past decade, Auriea has brought the figures of her digital worlds into material life. Mythic, autobiographical, monstrous, and divine, they move between screen and object, each in full embrace of the other. Her unrelenting pursuit of new techniques, materials, and methodologies continues to drive the unaffected, raw authenticity of form and texture that’s at the heart of her work.
“A relentlessly experimental artist who was prescient about digital media’s capacity to reshape experiences of intimacy and embodiment.”
Material Savant
From Digitalto Ancient.
Code. Clay. 3D scanning. AI. Ceramic. Marble. Bronze. Drawing. Painting. Interactive software.
Auriea’s one-of-a-kind practice treats each sculptural material without pretention – intuitively moving between hand, machine, body, and image to transform the ancient and familiar into her unique vision of personal lore.
Institutional Recognition
An iconic artistic practice consistently recognized across generations of media arts.
Selection of accolades + shows
- Inaugural Webby Award Winner · 1997
- Inaugural SFMOMA Prize for Excellence in Online Art · 2000
- Creative Capital Award · 2006
- IGF Nuovo Award · 2014
- Net Art Anthology, Rhizome · 2019, 2024
- Year Zero, bitforms Gallery · 2021
- Gray Matter, Feral File · 2022
- Artsy’s Annual Vanguard, selection · 2022
- Whitney Museum commission and acquisition · 2023
- The Unanswered Question, bitforms Gallery · 2024
- Museum of the Moving Image, Major Survey · 2024
- Honoree (with partner Michaël Samyn), Rhizome World Benefit Gala · 2025
- Arebyte, UK solo exhibition · 2025
Selection of permanent collections
- Whitney Museum of American Art
- San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
- Buffalo AKG Art Museum
- Walker Art Center
- Museum of the Moving Image
- ZKM | Center for Art and Media
- KADIST
- Rhizome
A Defining Season
A Defining Season
Fall 2026 opens a major new chapter in Auriea’s practice, opening with her READY TO DIE show at Heft.
Outside of Heft this fall
- Monumental new installation at Tinworks Art, supported by VIA Art Fund
- Fellowships with Onassis ONX amongst others
- Installation in the inaugural Canyon show, curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist
- Participation in Whitney Museum ArtPort show in NYC this November, curated by Christiane Paul
- Upcoming presentation at Gray Area in San Francisco, supported by the Teiger Foundation