A close-up view of a brown-skinned person wearing a white hoodie and blue jacket in front of a red welding screen.

American Artist makes thought experiments that mine the history of technology, race, and knowledge production, beginning with their legal name change in 2013. Artist's artwork primarily takes the form of sculpture, software, and video. They are a 2022 Creative Capital and United States Artists Fellow, and a 2021 LACMA Art & Tech Lab Grantee. They are a former resident of Smack Mellon, Red Bull Arts Detroit, Abrons Art Center, Recess, Eyebeam, Pioneer Works, and the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program. They have exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Art; MoMA PS1; Studio Museum in Harlem; Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland; and Nam June Paik Center, Seoul. Their work has been featured in The New York Times, Cultured, Artforum, and Art in America. Artist is a co-director of the School for Poetic Computation and a full-time faculty at Yale.

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Photo by Myles Loftin

Selected Work

Two navy and wooden school desks, each modified to include a ballistic shield attached to the front, sit in a spacious white room with wooden floors. On the back wall is an empty chalkboard, and a small stack of books hangs below each desk.
American Artist, I’m Blue (If I Was █████ I Would Die), 2021. Installation view at Commonwealth & Council in Los Angeles, CA.

American Artist, Shaper of God, 2022. Installation view at REDCAT in Los Angeles. Photo by Brica Wilcox.
American Artist, Shaper of God, 2022. Installation view at REDCAT in Los Angeles. Photo by Brica Wilcox.

American Artist, My Blue Window, 2021. Installation view at Nam June Paik Art Center in Seoul, Korea. Photo by Kyung Roh.
American Artist, My Blue Window, 2021. Installation view at Nam June Paik Art Center in Seoul, Korea. Photo by Kyung Roh.