b. 1989 Madrid, Spain Lives and works in Lexington, KY

Galo Canizares (itsgalo) is an artist, designer, writer, and educator based in Kentucky. His work interrogates the emerging socio-technical effects of code, screens, and software culture. His artworks and design installations have been exhibited at Verse, a83, and the Seattle NFT Museum, among others. He was the recipient of the 2016–17 LeFevre ’29 Emerging Practitioner Fellowship, and in 2018 was awarded the Christos Yessios Visiting Professorship at The Ohio State University. In 2019, he published a collection of essays on computation, art, and design, Digital Fabrications: Designer Stories for a Software-Based Planet. He holds a master of architecture from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a bachelor of environmental design from the College of Architecture and Planning at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He is an Assistant Professor of architecture at the University of Kentucky’s College of Design.