Hunter Longe

Hunter Longe is originally from California (b. 1985) and currently lives and works in Geneva, Switzerland. He has a Bachelor of Fine Arts from California College of the Arts, San Francisco, and a Master of Fine Arts from Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam. “With a freewheeling and alchemical spirit rooted in history, science, evolution, linguistics, technology, and spirituality, Longe’s practice is lysergic and kaleidoscopic” (Linda Jensen). Incorporating sculpture, drawing, video, sound and installation, his artworks are influenced by the properties and transformations of the materials they employ. They often feature actual elements from the distant past yet anachronistically evoke temporal slips and possible futures through their unusual material combinations and their speculative character. By appropriating stories and apparatuses from the sciences and conflating them with the oneiric, esoteric and folkloric, Longe’s works undo the distinctions between the living and the non-living and allude to an underlying sentience that far exceeds the human realm. Recent solo and duo exhibitions have been at 427, Riga (2024); Kunsthaus Langenthal (2023); Last Tango, Zurich (2023); Sonnenstube, Lugano (20230; NoMoon, New York (2019); Et al. Gallery, San Francisco (2018); LambdaLambdaLambda, Pristina (2017); Hordaland Kunstsenter, Bergen (2017). His work has been included in group exhibitions at MACRO Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome (2025); Lateral, Rome (2025); Centre d’art de Neuchâtel (2024); Soft Opening, London (2024); Istituto Svizzero, Rome (2022); Krone Couronne, Biel/Bienne (2022); Alte Fabrik, Rapperswil (2022), Smallville, Neuchâtel (2021); Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève (2021); Musée Cantonal de Géologie, Lausanne (2019). In 2021, a book of his writing and drawings entitled DreamOre was published by Coda Press and he was a winner of the Swiss Art Awards. In 2024-25 he was a fellow at the Istituto Svizzero in Rome.