Trevor Paglen

Born in Maryland, USA in 1974. Lives and works in New York and Berlin. He holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a Ph.D. in Geography from the University of California, Berkeley.

Among his solo exhibitions are Trevor Paglen: Hide the Real. Show the False (Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, 2023) and Trevor Paglen: You’ve Just Been F*cked by PSYOPS (Pace Gallery, New York, 2023). He has been participating in Don’t Follow the Wind, a group exhibition that opened in 2015 in the exclusion zone surrounding the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station in Japan. He was also awarded the Nam June Paik Art Center Prize (South Korea, 2018) and MacArthur Fellowship (USA, 2017).

He has explored a wide range of topics such as geography, military secrets, surveillance and communication systems, and AI-generated images.