Starting in 2003, Artist and MIT Professor and Director of the Center for Advanced Visual Studies (CAVS) Krzysztof Wodiczko and Architect and Roger Williams University Associate Professor Julian Bonder, formed Wodiczko + Bonder.
The focus of this Cambridge-based design partnership involves working on Public Projects dealing with Public Space, Memory and Trauma. Wodiczko + Bonder combine their experience in Public Art and Architecture along with an ethical and cross-disciplinar approach to complex projects dealing with Trauma Survivors, with Survivors of Urban and Political Violence, or in projects dealing with the Holocaust and Genocides, the Desaparecidos (in Argentina), the Civil War, and Slavery. Their experience ranges from temporary work and projections (Wodiczko), to buildings and public spaces (Bonder).
Projects by Krzysztof Wodiczko include Public Projections (Hiroshima, Tijuana, St. Louis, Boston) and projects such as the Homeless Vehicles, Alien-Staff and DIS-Armor. Since 1980, Krzysztof Wodiczko has created over 70 projections of still and video images that critically animate historic monuments and civic edifices. Public projections include: The Grand Army Plaza Memorial Arch, Brooklyn, NY (1983); The Hirshhorn Museum, Washington D.C. (1988); The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (1989); Arco de la Victoria, Madrid (1991); City Hall Tower, Krakow (1996); Bunker Hill Monument, Boston (1998); A-Bomb Dome, Hiroshima (1999); El Centro Cultural, Tijuana, Mexico (2001); St. Louis Library (2004).
Mr. Wodiczko’s work has been exhibited in numerous international festival and exhibitions including: Paris Biennale (twice), Biennale of Sao Paulo (twice), The Sydney Biennale, Documenta, Germany (twice); The Kwang-ju Biennale, South Korea; The Venice Biennale (twice); The Biennale in Lyon, France, Helsinki Biennale, Whitney Museum of American Art Biennial, Kyoto Biennale, the Yokohama Triennale and the International Center for Photography Triennial in New York.
Mr. Wodiczko’s work can be found in numerous public collections such as: The Fundació Tapies, Barcelona, Spain; Museum Sztuki, Lodz, Poland, The Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego; The National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; the Israel Museum, Jerusalem; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Lyon, France; FNAC, and FNAC Ile de France, Paris; FRAC Pays de la Loire, Nantes, France; The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto; The Jewish Museum, New York; The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; The Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, and The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York. In 2005, his major project the Alien Staff has become part of the permanent collection of MACBA, Museum of Contemporary Art in Barcelona.
Wodiczko?s work has been exhibited and published worldwide.Projects by Julian Bonder include: The Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Clark University, in Worcester (recipient of: BSA 2000 Young