American Artist
Artist working in video, installation and new media on Black labor and anti-Blackness in digital systems
Biography
American Artist was born in 1989. Their interdisciplinary practice covers video, installation, new media and writing, focused on Black labor and visibility and on anti-Blackness in networked life and digital systems. They received the 2018 to 2019 Queens Museum Jerome Foundation Fellowship, held residencies at Abrons Art Center and Eyebeam, and took part in the Whitney Independent Study Program in 2017. Their work has been shown at the Museum of the African Diaspora in San Francisco, the Studio Museum in Harlem, the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago and Koenig & Clinton in New York. Looted temporarily replaces the images on whitney.org with plywood textures and fades pages to black, symbolically boarding up the museum's website. It connects the protest versus looting debate, colonial era museum collections and racial justice to online art viewing during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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