Auriea Harvey

American-born artist Auriea Harvey (b.1971) currently resides in Rome and works as a videogame designer and innovative digital artist. Her art inhabits a hybrid space of ‘mixed reality’. Auriea coalesces physical and digital processes to create pieces of art that amalgamate the tangible and intangible realms, often creating digital sculptures with a physical counterpart. She describes the way in which her artwork ‘metamorphoses between the digital scans and their materiality’. Auriea’s work is heavily influenced by Hellenistic and Baroque art both aesthetically and philosophically; she re-works and retells mythological narratives, placing them in a contemporary context. Harvey’s work has been internationally revered and can be found in the permanent collections of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The Walker Centre, Lot 555 Collection and the National Bank of Belgium. Her Virtual Reality pieces and Videogames have been exhibited in museums and galleries such as the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, The New Museum in New York and the Tinguely Museum in Basel. Moreover, Harvey was the recipient of the Creative Capital Grant for Digital Media in 2006, as well as the winner of the Independent Games Festival Nuovo Award in 2011.