Ursula Endlicher

Biography

Ursula Endlicher was born in Vienna and has lived in New York City since 1993. She holds an MFA in Painting and Installation from the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (1991) and an MFA in Computer Art from the School of Visual Arts in New York (1995). She has worked with interactive and networked media since the early 1990s. Her work looks at digital, social and ecological networks through net art, augmented reality, installation, performance, environmental works, dinners and other participatory formats. It often turns hidden infrastructures into shared experiences, with a sense of humor. Her key works include html_butoh (2007), which translates HTML tags into dance movements, the performance series Website Impersonations: The Ten Most Visited, Website Wigs, and Light and Dark Networks (2012) and Famous for One Spam (2004), both commissioned for the Whitney Museum's artport. Her ongoing WebAR project The HTMLgardeness (Sowing HTML but Harvesting AI) and the participatory WebAR ecosystem bARk#2 (2026) carry the practice into augmented reality. bARk#2 is the subject of her 2026 solo exhibition at Nguyen Wahed Gallery in New York. She has shown at transmediale in Berlin, SIGGRAPH Asia in Yokohama, the Chronus Art Center in Shanghai, HEK in Basel, and Eyebeam and Harvestworks in New York. Her work is in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, Rhizome ArtBase and the Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art at Cornell University. She received the 2024 Austrian Art Award for Media Art, an Eyebeam residency award in 2017 and a Fulbright grant in 1993.