Dr Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg is a multidisciplinary artist examining our fraught relationships with nature and technology. Through artworks, writing, and curatorial projects, Daisy’s work explores subjects as diverse as artificial intelligence, synthetic biology, conservation, biodiversity, and evolution, as she investigates the human impulse to “better” the world. She experiments with simulation, representation, and the nonhuman perspective to question the contemporary fixation on innovation over conservation, despite the environmental crisis.

Daisy spent over ten years experimentally engaging with the field of synthetic biology, developing new roles for artists and designers. She is the lead author of Synthetic Aesthetics: Investigating Synthetic Biology’s Designs on Nature (MIT Press, 2014), and in 2017 completed Better, her PhD by practice, at London’s Royal College of Art (RCA), interrogating how individuals' powerful dreams of “better” futures shape the things that get designed. She read architecture at the University of Cambridge, was a visiting scholar at Harvard University, and received her MA in Design Interactions from the RCA.

In June 2023, Daisy won the S+T+ARTS Grand Prize – Artistic Exploration from the European Commission for her experimental interspecies living artwork Pollinator Pathmaker. Commissioned Editions have been planted for LAS Art Foundation at Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, for the Serpentine, London, and at the Eden Project, Cornwall. The Jury said: 'As Pollinator Pathmaker continues to blossom, it serves as a vivid illustration of the crucial role of innovative exploration at the intersection of art, ecology, and technology can play in tackling key ecological challenges'.

She received the World Technology Award – Design in 2011, the London Design Medal for Emerging Talent in 2012, and the Dezeen Changemaker Award 2019. Her work has twice been nominated for Designs of the Year (2011, 2015), with Designing for the Sixth Extinction described as “romantic, dangerous… and everything else that inspires us to change and question the world”.

Daisy exhibits internationally, including at MoMA New York, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, the National Museum of China, the Centre Pompidou, and the Royal Academy. Her work is held in private and museum permanent collections, including the Art Institute of Chicago, the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, Therme Art, and ZKM Karlsruhe.

Resident at Somerset House Studios, London, Daisy was recently commissioned by Manifesta, the European Nomadic Biennial, to create her first stained glass window Every Thing Eats Light installed at The Three Chimneys for Manifesta 15 Barcelona Metropolitana. And in October 2024, she opened her first Swedish solo exhibition at Bildmuseet, Umeå, expanding her immersive light and sound installation Machine Auguries (2019-ongoing) with three editions; London (2019), Toledo (2023) and Umeå (to be unveiled in 2025).