Bio
About Eli Kuslansky
Eli Kuslansky is a Brooklyn-born interdisciplinary artist whose work spans painting, drawing, sculpture, installation, and digitally mediated image-making. He is co-host of the WNYE radio program Art Movez and Partner and Chief Strategist at Unified Field, an international award-winning creative innovation firm.
Kuslansky has exhibited at Ronald Feldman Gallery in Komar and Melamid’s Death and Immortality show, and in a group exhibition at the Bronx Museum of the Arts. He also curated Wellspring, an exhibition on the element of water and fountains in public art at BACA Gallery. In 2016, he collaborated with David Byrne on The Institute Presents: Neurosociety, an immersive interactive performance at Pace Art + Technology in Menlo Park, California, exploring perception, morality, and the nature of reality.
For more than three decades, Kuslansky has worked at the intersection of art, technology, and public experience, designing responsive environments, digital communications, and large-scale media installations for museums, brands, architects, and cultural institutions. He has collaborated on projects with Alicia Keys, David Byrne, and Carl Hancock Rux, and has developed media installation projects with internationally renowned architecture firms.
He is currently collaborating with Carl Hancock Rux on God Talk, an installation exploring humanity’s relationship to God through light, shadow, and spoken word. Kuslansky holds a BFA from The Cooper Union, where he studied sculpture, photography, and the role of illusion in perception. Early in his career, he worked in maritime museums and in a shipyard in Greece restoring nineteenth-century sailing ships, an experience that continues to inform his sense of structure, material, and the power of historical narratives
Affliations
Mr. Kuslansky was a board member of Exit Art, and the Industrial Application Board for Columbia University’s Center for Advance Technology. He is a member of the American Alliance of Museums, the Society for Experiential Design, and the Association of Science and Technology Centers. He was the Chair of the Advisory Group for the Brooklyn Arts Council, was a mentor at the New Museum’s New Inc, and an advisor for Eyebeam Atelier.
Public & Experiential Work
His experience includes working within architect-led design teams on large-scale projects developed by firms including Gehry Partners, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, Ennead Architects, Foster + Partners, and Gensler, where, as a creative director, he led teams in conceiving, designing, programming, and installing public-facing experiential and interactive linear and digital media works integrated into the built environment.