Werner Sun | School of Art Visiting Artist Lecture Series

Werner Sun is a visual artist with a background in physics, who lives and works in Ithaca, New York. He uses repetitive manual processes to slowly transform digital images into sculptural objects that evoke the gradual accumulation of knowledge in science.

Sun’s work has been featured at Garrison Art Center, Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, Aon, Manifest Gallery and the Islip Art Museum. His essays and images have been published in “The Brooklyn Rail,” “Interalia Magazine” and “Stone Canoe.” He is the 2019 recipient of the Aon-CUE Artist Empowerment Award from the CUE Art Foundation and a 2017 recipient of a Strategic Opportunity Stipend from the Community Arts Partnership of Tompkins County.

He recently completed a kinetic photographic sculpture installation that was commissioned for an international climate change conference at Cornell University and is permanently displayed at the Cornell Botanic Gardens.