Uriel Orlow is an artist and researcher with a diasporic background working in Lisbon, London, Zurich and elsewhere. He is the recipient of the 2023 Swiss Grand Prix for Art/Prix Meret Oppenheim. Orlow's work has been presented in numerous international survey exhibitions, including the 54th Venice Biennale, Manifesta 9 and 12 in Genk and Palermo, and biennials in Berlin, Dakar, Kochi, Taipei, Sharjah, Moscow, Kathmandu, Guatemala and others. His work has also been shown in London at the Tate, Whitechapel Gallery, Showroom, Gasworks and ICA; in Lisbon at Maat, Casa da Cerca, Carpintarias de São Lazaro and Galeria Quadrum as well as in Zurich, Geneva, Athens, Jerusalem, Ramallah, Marseille, Paris, Oslo, Dublin Turin, Cairo, Istanbul, Mexico City, Beijing, New York, Chicago, Toronto, Melbourne, Lubumbashi and elsewhere. Recent publications include Conversing with Leaves (Archive Books, 2020), Soil Affinities (Shelter Press, 2019) and Theatrum Botanicum (Sternberg Press, 2018). He is a lecturer at the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK) and at the University of Westminster, London.