Chico MacMurtrie
Meet our artist
Lucas Artists Fellow
About
Residency Dates
- January 2011 – April 2011
- August 2011 – August 2011
- February 2012 – February 2012
- January 2016 – February 2016
Region
USA
Membership
Climate Clock
Chico
MacMurtrie is internationally recognized for his large-‐scale, performative, robotic installations, and
interactive public sculpture. MacMurtrie
has exhibited widely
in America, Europe,
and Asia, and
has received numerous awards and grants, including five grants from the
National Endowment for the Arts, Fundación Telefonica / Vida Life,
NYFA, Art Matters, CEC Artslink
and Ars Electronica.
MacMurtrie
is the Artistic Director of Amorphic Robot Works (ARW), a collective of
artists, technicians, scientists, and engineers he founded in 1991. Since
2005, MacMurtrie/ARW have focused on developing “soft machines” or inflatable
robotic sculptures that engage their environment through cyclical air exchange
and metamorphic transformation.
In 2012, MacMurtrie, Geo Homsy and Bill
Washabaugh won San Jose’s Climate Clock competition with Organograph, a proposed 75-foot tall kinetic sculpture responding
to Climate Change.
Visit amorphicrobotworks.org