Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg

Artist exploring science, technology, nature, and the design of living matter.

Dr Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg is a multidisciplinary artist examining our fraught relationships with nature and technology. Through artworks, writing, and curatorial projects, Daisy’s work explores subjects as diverse as artificial intelligence, synthetic biology, conservation, biodiversity, and evolution, as she investigates the human impulse to “better” the world. She experiments with simulation, representation, and the nonhuman perspective to question the contemporary fixation on innovation over conservation, despite the environmental crisis.

In June 2023, Daisy won the S+T+ARTS Grand Prize – Artistic Exploration from the European Commission for her experimental interspecies living artwork Pollinator Pathmaker. Commissioned Editions have been planted for LAS Art Foundation at Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, for the Serpentine, London, and at the Eden Project, Cornwall.

She received the World Technology Award – Design in 2011, the London Design Medal for Emerging Talent in 2012, and the Dezeen Changemaker Award 2019. Her work has twice been nominated for Designs of the Year (2011, 2015).

Daisy exhibits internationally, including at MoMA New York, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, the National Museum of China, the Centre Pompidou, and the Royal Academy. Her work is held in private and museum permanent collections, including the Art Institute of Chicago, the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, Therme Art, and ZKM Karlsruhe.

Daisy was recently commissioned by Manifesta, the European Nomadic Biennial, to create her first stained glass window Every Thing Eats Light installed at The Three Chimneys for Manifesta 15 Barcelona Metropolitana. And in October 2024, she opened her first Swedish solo exhibition at Bildmuseet, Umeå, expanding her immersive light and sound installation Machine Auguries (2019-ongoing) with three editions; London (2019), Toledo (2023) and Umeå (to be unveiled in 2025).