Janani Balasubramanian is an artist, director, founder, and leading voice in art-science and transformative immersive experience design.
His work has been presented at leading cultural and scientific institutions worldwide, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, London School of Economics, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York High Line, Lincoln Center, The Public Theater, San Francisco Exploratorium, Andy Warhol Museum, Red Bull Arts, Ace Hotel, Yale Schwarzman Center, and most recently at The Music Center in Los Angeles in partnership with the Getty Foundation and LeVar Burton Entertainment.
He has received support from many of the nation’s most prestigious funders and commissioning organizations, including the MacArthur Foundation, Sloan Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, OPERA America, Sundance Institute, Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, Jerome Foundation, and MIT’s Center for Art, Science & Technology. His many awarded artistic residencies include MacDowell, Camargo, Djerassi, Green Box Arts, Sundance, Pioneer Works, and UCross.
Janani has consulted widely on art-science strategy, creative technology, and effective collaboration—with partners such as the Doris Duke Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, American Museum of Natural History, Cinereach, and John Giorno Foundation. He coaches emerging creators through the MAP Fund and New Inc and teaches immersive experience design at the Stanford d.school.
A 2025 Lenore Tawney Fellow, he is co-author of the forthcoming book Art-Science Undisciplined: A Playbook for Transformative Collaboration (University of California Press, 2026), and sits on the boards of the Djerassi Resident Artists Program and the Journal on Perspectives in Arts in Health. He is the Founding Executive and Artistic Director of Forever Lab at Stanford Medicine.