A Conversation with
American Artist

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Join us in conversation with American Artist, as they explain the process behind their artwork, Urban Light. Urban Light is currently a part of Epoch Gallery's virtual exhibition Echoes. Special Thanks to American Artist for their generosity + collaboration.
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AMERICAN ARTIST 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, software, and video. Artist is a 2022 Creative Capital and United States Artists grantee, and a recipient of the 2021 LACMA Art & Tech Lab Grant. They are a resident at Smack Mellon in Brooklyn and a former resident of Red Bull Arts, 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. They have had solo museum exhibitions at The Queens Museum, New York and The Museum of African Diaspora, California. Their work has been featured in the New York Times, Artforum, and Huffington Post. Artist is a lecturer at Parsons, NYU, UCLA and a co-director of the School for Poetic Computation.

Visit the exhibition at epoch.gallery For more information on American Artist's work, visit americanartist.us