Marco Brambilla is a leading figure in contemporary video art, internationally recognized for his pioneering use of digital imaging technologies and immersive moving image installations.
He is best known for his work which re-contextualizes archival imagery into visually elaborate, often satirical spectacles that explore the excesses of contemporary culture.
In 2024, his AI-generated piece Approximations of Utopia became the first of its kind to be featured in Times Square’s Midnight Moment arts series, presented across 95 digital screens. His large-scale video collage King Size (2023) was unveiled in 16K resolution as part of the opening program at the Sphere in Las Vegas. Brambilla’s Heaven’s Gate (2021) has been widely exhibited, including solo presentations at the Pérez Art Museum Miami, PHI Centre in Montreal, Max Ernst Museum (Brühl), and as the centerpiece of his 2025 solo show Altered States at Haus, Venice, curated by Jérôme Sans.
The work has also been shown at Kunstpalast Düsseldorf, Arken Museum of Modern Art (Copenhagen), and Bozar – Centre for Fine Arts (Brussels), among others. His Megaplex series—Civilization (2008), Evolution (2010), and Creation (2012)—has been exhibited internationally, with Evolution screened at the 68th Venice International Film Festival and Sundance Film Festival.
The Megaplex series was shown at the Fondation Beyeler (Basel) and SITE Santa Fe. In 2019, Brambilla partnered with Creative Time and Art Production Fund to present Nude Descending Staircase No.3, a public installation at the World Trade Center during Frieze New York. Other high-profile collaborations include 7 Deaths of Maria Callas (2021), an opera by Marina Abramović at the Opéra National de Paris, and Pelléas et Mélisande (2020) at Opera Vlaanderen, Antwerp. Brambilla’s work is held in major public collections including the Museum of Modern Art (New York), Guggenheim Museum (New York), San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, ARCO Foundation (Madrid), and Corcoran Gallery of Art (Washington D.C).
His work has been exhibited at leading institutions such as the New Museum (New York), Santa Monica Museum of Art, Nxt Museum (Amsterdam), Seoul Biennial, Broad Art Museum (Los Angeles), Borusan Contemporary (Istanbul), Le Centquatre (Paris), and the Kunsthalle Bern (Switzerland) Brambilla has been featured at prestigious film festivals including Venice, and Sundance, and was honored in 2025 at the Cinema Unbound Awards by the Portland Art Museum. He is a recipient of the Tiffany Comfort Foundation and Tiffany Colbert Foundation awards.