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teamLab, Massless Suns and Dark Suns, 2022, interactive installation, endless. Sound: Hideaki Takahashi. © teamLab
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teamLab: Everything Exists in Infinite Continuity

September 22, 2026 — February 21, 2027

The art collective teamLab is renowned for creating immersive digital art installations exploring themes of perception and consciousness. Based in Tokyo, many of teamLab’s artworks draw upon approaches to perspective in historical East Asian art. Central to teamLab’s work is their aim to explore the relationship between the self and the world and using technology in new ways to explore perception, with an emphasis on individualized perception in a collective experience.

Founded in 2001 by Toshiyuki Inoko, teamLab has grown into an international collective comprised of hundreds of artists, scientists, computer programmers, mathematicians, and architects, among others.

teamLab: Everything Exists in Infinite Continuity is the first exhibition of teamLab in the Midwest and traces the collective’s artistic trajectory over the last twenty-five years. It presents some of teamLab’s most iconic artworks as well as new work made specifically for this exhibition. In doing so, it explores how teamLab has experimented with and expanded their use of digital technologies to create environments that blur the boundary between the viewer and the artwork.

EXHIBITION CATALOGUE

teamLab: Everything Exists in Infinite Continuity

Edited by Allison J. Martino and Vanja V. Malloy, with contributions by Mariana Babo-Rebelo, Fukuoka Shin-Ichi, Laura Lee, Barbara London, Toshiyuki Inoko, and Tsutsui Tadahito

Forthcoming from the Smart Museum of Art, distributed by The University of Chicago Press.

HOMEPAGE IMAGE: teamLab, Continuous Life and Death at the Now of Eternity II, 2019, digital work, 12 channels, endless. © teamLab

Support

Principal support for this exhibition is provided by Amy and Paul Carbone and the Feitler Family.

Major support is provided by the University of Chicago Women’s Board, Lorna Ferguson and Terry Clark, and Ann Ziegler, in memory of Kathleen Cronin.

Support is provided by the Kanter Family Foundation, the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation, Eloise Wright Martin, The Estate of Warren G. Moon, the Center for East Asian Studies at the University of Chicago, the Chu Foundation, Yue Li and Hannah So, Brien O’Brien and Mary Hasten, and Hans Reiser and Alan Taylor.

Additional support is provided by Ray Iwanowski and Erica Noble, the Chauncey and Marion D. McCormick Family Foundation, Gay-Young Cho and Christopher Chiu, the Joan S. and Stanley M. Freehling Fund for the Arts, Charles H. Mottier and Philip J. Vidal, Clea and Daniel Van Voorhis, and the Helen and Jack Halpern Fund.

Smart exhibitions are also made possible by the Museum’s Board of Governors and SmartPartners.

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