Oliver Sann is a German born, Chicago-based researcher and artist. Since 2013 he has been a professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. The themes of his work are drawn from his observations about climate change and its most significant contributor, humans. He believes that art transforms cognition into experience and practice into cognition, making invisible processes available to our perception. Together with his collaborator Beate Geissler he has published four monographs: Return to Veste Rosenberg (2006), Personal Kill (2010), Volatile Smile (2013), and the bio-adapter / you won’t fool the children of the revolution (2019). He has been the recipient of a number of grants and awards, including the Videonale Award from the Museum of Art, Bonn, the Herman-Claasen-Award, and production grants from the Graham Foundation, Chicago. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally in museums, galleries, and alternative spaces, including the Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, the Fotomuseum Antwerp, the NGBK (New Society for Visual Arts) in Berlin, the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, the Fotomuseum Winterthur in Switzerland, the Museum Ludwig in Cologne, MAST Foundation in Bologna, and the German Pavillion at the Photography Biennial Dubai.