Cory Arcangel

Cory Arcangel is a Brooklyn-based fine artist (b. 1978, Buffalo,
NY) who makes work in a wide range of media, including composition,
video, modified video games, performance, and the Internet.

Over the past two years, Arcangel has completed several diverse
projects. He recently presented a solo booth of artist publications and
artworks at the 2015 New York Art Book Fair at MoMA PS1, New York, NY
under the auspices of his publishing and merchandise imprint, Arcangel
Surfware. In 2014, he worked extensively with a team of computer experts
from the Carnegie Mellon Computer Club, in collaboration with The Andy
Warhol Museum, The Carnegie Museum, and the Carnegie STUDIO for Creative
Inquiry to unearth and preserve Warhol’s lost digital experiments,
which he wrote about for the 2014 summer edition of Artforum. Also in
2014, he released his debut novel, Working On My Novel, published by
Penguin.

Recent exhibitions include: “Be the first of your friends” at Espace
Louis Vuitton München, Munich, Germany (2015), “This is all so crazy,
everybody seems so famous” at Galleria d‘Arte Moderna e Contemporanea,
Bergamo (2015), “All The Small Things” at the Reykjavik Art Museum,
Reykjavik (2015), “Masters” at the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh
(2012–13), “Pro Tools” at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
(2011), “Beat the Champ” at the Barbican, London (2011), and “Here Comes
Everybody” at the Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin (2010–11). Recent
performances include “Dances For The Electric Piano” at the Berlin
Philharmonie, and “Selected Notes on Creativity” at nyMusikk, Oslo,
Norway.

His work is included in many public collections, including the Hammer
Museum in Los Angeles, MoMA in New York, the Tate in London, Berlin’s
Neue Nationalgalerie, the Smithsonian Museum of American Art in
Washington D.C., and the Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst in Zürich.

Photo: Bennett Williamson