About the Artist
Oron Catts is an artist, researcher, designer, and curator whose pioneering work with the Tissue Culture and Art Project (established in 1996) is considered a leading biological art project. In 2000 he co-founded SymbioticA, a biological art research center at The University of Western Australia.
Under Catts’s leadership, SymbioticA has gone on to win the inaugural Prix Ars Electronica Golden Nica in Hybrid Art (2007), the WA Premier Science Award (2008), and became a Centre for Excellence in 2008.