Bio
About Eli Kuslansky
Eli Kuslansky is a Brooklyn-born interdisciplinary artist whose work spans painting, drawing, sculpture, installation, and digitally mediated image-making. His practice explores perception, mortality, historical memory, and the idea of God through a hybrid language of material process, illusion, light, image, and technology.
Kuslansky has exhibited at Ronald Feldman Gallery in Komar and Melamid’s Death and Immortality exhibition and in a group exhibition at the Bronx Museum of the Arts. He also curated Wellspring, an exhibition at BACA Gallery on water, fountains, and public art. 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 across art, technology, and public experience. As Partner and Chief Strategist at Unified Field, he has led the conception and production of responsive environments, interactive media, and large-scale digital installations for museums, cultural institutions, architects, and public spaces. His work has been developed in collaboration with internationally recognized architecture firms including Gehry Partners, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, Ennead Architects, Foster + Partners, and Gensler.
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. His broader creative collaborations include projects with David Byrne, Alicia Keys, and Carl Hancock Rux. 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.
Kuslansky is co-host of the WNYE radio program Art Movez. He has served on the board of Exit Art and on the Industrial Application Board for Columbia University’s Center for Advanced Technology. He has also chaired the Advisory Group for the Brooklyn Arts Council, mentored at New Museum’s NEW INC, and advised Eyebeam Atelier. He is a member of the American Alliance of Museums, the Society for Experiential Graphic Design, and the Association of Science and Technology Centers
Affiliations
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.