Giorgia Lupi
Biography

Giorgia Lupi is an artist and designer based in New York. Her work is held in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, and the Moleskine Foundation, and has been exhibited internationally — including at Centre Pompidou, Triennale Milano, Fondazione Merz, the CCCB in Barcelona, and, in a 2026 solo exhibition, the Gallerie d'Italia in Vicenza. In 2025 she began a sustained studio practice in painting and works on paper.

Public Collections
2016Museum of Modern Art, New York — Dear Data (with Stefanie Posavec), 2014–2015. Permanent collection, Department of Architecture & Design.
2024Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, New York — 1,374 Days: My Life With Long Covid, 2023.
2021Moleskine Foundation Collection, Milan — Book of Life, 2021.
Solo Exhibitions
2026Giorgia Lupi: l'Umanesimo dei Dati (Data Humanism), Gallerie d'Italia, Vicenza, Italy
Selected Commissions
2025A Data Love Letter to the Subway, MTA Arts & Design, Fulton Center, New York. Animated data story across 52 synchronized screens, for the 40th anniversary of MTA Arts & Design.
2022Around the World's Table, New York Botanical Garden. Data sculpture: 100 partially submerged metal totems in the reflecting pool of the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory, for Around the Table: Stories of the Foods We Love.
2021Book of Life, Moleskine Foundation. Artist book: three Moleskine notebooks disassembled and rebound as a leporello, embroidered with 14,496 stitches — one for each day of the artist's life.
2021Mindworks: The Science of Thinking, University of Chicago Booth School of Business. Permanent interactive installations across eight exhibits.
2020Who We Are: Visualizing NYC by the Numbers, Museum of the City of New York. Digital interactive installation.
2017Data Items, for Items: Is Fashion Modern?, Museum of Modern Art, New York. Site-specific vinyl wall installation.
Selected Group Exhibitions
2026Full Disclosure: The Edge of Information Design, Museum of Modern Art, New York (opening September 27)
2024Seeing the Unseeable: Data, Design, Art, ArtCenter College of Design, Pasadena. Part of Getty's PST ART: Art & Science Collide; exhibited Incroci (2022).
2022Detour 2.0: A Journey Through Creative Catalysts, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
2022Ordo naturalis, ordo artificialis, Fondazione Merz, Turin, Italy
2019Nature: Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial, Cooper Hewitt, New York; exhibited Bruises, made with Kaki King.
2019Broken Nature, curated by Paola Antonelli, XXII Triennale di Milano, Milan
2018Coder le Monde, Centre Pompidou, Paris
2018123 Data, Fondation EDF, Paris
2017Text Me: How We Live in Language, Museum of Design Atlanta
2016Our Lives in Data, Science Museum, London
2015Big Bang Data, Somerset House, London
2015Measure, Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York
2014Big Bang Data, CCCB Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona
2014Le Mappe del Sapere, Triennale di Milano, Milan
Awards & Honors
2026The Curious 100, Eames Institute
2025Compasso d'Oro International Award, ADI
2024Member, Alliance Graphique Internationale (AGI)
2023–26Wallpaper* USA 400 / USA 300 (named four times)
2022National Design Award, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
2022Honorary Doctorate in Fine Arts, Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA)
2022Fellow, Royal Society of Arts
2022Explorer, National Geographic
2018Director's Fellow, MIT Media Lab
2018100 Most Creative People in Business, Fast Company
Selected Press
2026"L'umanesimo digitale di Giorgia Lupi," Il Giornale dell'Arte
2026"Giorgia Lupi: L'Umanesimo dei Dati," Artribune
2025"How Giorgia Lupi Visualizes Life Through Data," Museum of Modern Art (documentary)
2025"What's the Fastest Subway Line? (Yes, There is One)," The New Yorker
2024"Information Designer Giorgia Lupi and Her Search for Love in the Time of COVID," Full Bleed, S1 E2 (documentary)
2022"An interview with information designer Giorgia Lupi," The Guardian
2021"7 Questions, 75 Artists, 1 Very Bad Year," The New York Times
2021"Todos los datos pueden estar sesgados," El País
2020"From a Restricted Italy, an Artist's Eye on the Coronavirus," The Washington Post
2019"Can Data Be Human? The Work of Giorgia Lupi," by Alexandra Lange, The New Yorker
2019"Giorgia Lupi Debuts a Collaboration with & Other Stories," Vogue
2019"Meet the Designer Obsessed With the Stories That Live Inside Our Data," Vanity Fair
2019"Can Data Be Human?" Forbes
Publications
2025Speak Data: Artists, Scientists, Thinkers, and Dreamers on How We Live Our Lives in Numbers. With Phillip Cox. Chronicle Books.
20241,374 Days: My Life with Long Covid. Visual op-ed, The New York Times.
2024This Is Me and Only Me. With Madeleine Garner. Corraini Edizioni.
2018Observe, Collect, Draw! A Visual Journal. With Stefanie Posavec. Princeton Architectural Press.
2016Dear Data. With Stefanie Posavec. Princeton Architectural Press / Penguin.
Talks

Two TED talks — How We Can Find Ourselves in Data (2017) and What Long Covid Taught Me About Life (and Data) (2024). Selected lectures include the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Guggenheim, Cooper Hewitt, Design Indaba, and Parsons The New School.

Education
2013PhD, Design, Politecnico di Milano
2006BA/MA, Architecture, Università di Ferrara
Professional
2019–Partner, Pentagram, New York
2011–19Co-founder, Accurat, Milan and New York

For the full CV — complete exhibitions, talks, awards and press — giorgialupi.com.

Inquiries

For studio and exhibition inquiries:
giorgialupi@gmail.com