Photo: Myles Loftin
American Artist (b. 1989) makes thought experiments that mine the history of technology, race, and knowledge production, beginning with their legal name change in 2013. Their artwork primarily takes the form of sculpture, design, and video. Artist is a grant recipient of Creative Capital, Artadia, and Trellis Art Fund and is an alumni of the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program. They have held solo exhibitions at MIT List Center, Queens Museum, REDCAT and Pioneer Works. They have also participated in exhibitions at the Studio Museum in Harlem, the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland, and Nam June Paik Art Center, Seoul. Artist is in the permanent collection of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and The Museum of Modern Art among others. They are on the board of directors of the School for Poetic Computation and are a visiting critic at Yale School of Art.