In 2024 Tamiko Thiel was awarded the SIGGRAPH Distinguished Artist Lifetime Achievement Award in Digital Arts and inducted into the inaugural cohort of AWE XR Hall of Fame for her politically and socially critical media artworks exploring place, space, the body and cultural identity. Earlier awards include the 2018 SAT Montreal Visionary Pioneer Award and the 2009 IBM Innovation Award in Art and Technology. Her art practice ranges from the visual design of the first AI supercomputer (1983-1986) to VR (since 1994), AR (since 2010), large immersive installations, videos, digital prints and ceramics. She has major works in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New York, The Whitney Museum of American Art New York, the Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C., Roche Basel Art Collection in Switzerland, Broich Digital Art Museum in Frankfurt, and in the private collections of new media pioneers Lynn Hershman Leeson and Eduardo Kac.