Trevor Paglen

Trevor Paglen is an artist whose work spans image-making, sculpture, investigative journalism, writing, engineering, and numerous other disciplines exploring themes like state secrecy, data collection and artificial intelligence.

Some of his best known works include launching an artwork into distant orbit around Earth in collaboration with Creative Time and MIT, as well as contributing research and cinematography to the Academy Award-winning film Citizenfour, and creating a radioactive public sculpture for the exclusion zone in Fukushima, Japan. He is the author of several books and articles.

Trevor Paglen’s work has been exhibited in numerous venues, including the Smithsonian Museum of American Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Tate Modern. He is MacArthur Fellow (2017) and Deutsche Börse Photography Prize winner (2016).