Lawrence Lek creates speculative worlds and site-specific simulations using software, video, installation and performance. Often based on real places, his uncanny digital environments reflect the impact of the virtual on our perception of reality. Contrasts between utopia and ruins, desire and loss, and fantasy and history appear throughout his work to symbolize this exchange. Lek studied at Cooper Union, the Architectural Association, and Trinity College, Cambridge. Recent exhibitions include Tramway, Glasgow International, 2016; KW Institut, Berlin; Cubitt Gallery, London; Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge; and the Delfina Foundation. He received the Jerwood/FVU Awards, 2016, the Tenderflix/ICA Artist Video Award and the Dazed Emerging Artist Award, 2015.
