Trevor Paglen

Artist and Geographer, Trevor Paglen Studio

Artist and geographer who explores and documents invisible infrastructures, ranging from secret corporate and government sites to networks known through technologies of non-human, machine vision. Work spans through image-making, sculpture, investigative journalism, writing, engineering and numerous other disciplines. Among chief concerns are learning how to see the historical moment the world is in and developing the means to imagine alternative futures. Has had one-person exhibitions at Vienna Secession, Eli & Edythe Broad Art Museum, Van Abbe Museum, Frankfurter Kunstverein, and Protocinema Istanbul, and participated in group exhibitions the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Tate Modern and numerous other venues. Has earned international renown for uniting disparate worlds to create works that explore and document hidden worlds. Described as a "geographer by training, a conspiracy theorist by instinct, and an investigative reporter by avocation," New York Times. Uses photography, video, data and other uncommon sources to create artworks that reveal the unexpected and the profound.

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