Trevor Paglen

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b. 1974, Camp Springs, Maryland

Trevor Paglen is known for investigating the invisible through the visible, with a wide-reaching approach that spans image-making, sculpture, investigative journalism, writing, engineering, and numerous other disciplines.

The clandestine and the hidden are revealed in series such as The Black Sites, The Other Night Sky, and Limit Telephotography in which the limits of vision are explored through the histories of landscape photography, abstraction, Romanticism, and technology. Paglen’s investigation into the epistemology of representation can be seen in his Symbology and Code Names series which utilize text, video, object, and image to explore questions surrounding military culture and language. Among his chief concerns are learning how to see the historical moment we live in and developing the means to imagine alternative futures.

Paglen has had numerous solo exhibitions held at institutions globally, including at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C. (2018–19), which traveled to the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, California (2019); Barbican Centre, London (2019–20); Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (2020–21); San José Museum of Art, California (2021); and Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin (2023), among others. He has participated in group exhibitions at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2009, 2010, 2018); Tate Modern, London (2010); The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (2011); Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid (2014); Des Moines Art Center, Iowa (2026); and Kunsthaus Hamburg, Germany (2025), and numerous other institutions. He is included in the forthcoming group exhibitions, Histories of Ecology at the Museu de Arte de São Paulo, opening September 5, 2025; Bells and Cannons, which will open at the Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuanian, on October 16, 2025; and Task Eternal, which opens at Powerhouse Parramatta, Sydney, in September 2026.

In tandem with his museum exhibitions, Paglen is well-known for his site-specific public projects, among them, The Last Pictures (2013), an artwork containing a micro-etched disc with one hundred photographs sent into geostationary orbit around Earth via the communications satellite EchoStar XVI, produced in collaboration with Creative Time and MIT. In 2015, Paglen created Trinity Cube, a radioactive public sculpture made from material collected within the exclusion zone in Fukushima, Japan, and from Trinitite, the radioactive material made from molten sand after the testing of the Atomic Bomb at the Trinity Site in New Mexico. In addition, Paglen achieved critical acclaim for his contributed research and cinematography on the Academy Award-winning film Citizenfour (2014), directed by Laura Poitras. Paglen is the author of five books and numerous articles on subjects including experimental geography, state secrecy, military symbology, photography, and visuality. His work has been profiled in the The New York Times, Vice Magazine, The New Yorker, and Artforum. In 2014, Paglen received the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Pioneer Award for his work as a “groundbreaking investigative artist,” and in 2017, he was the recipient of the MacArthur Genius award. Paglen is the Spring 2025 Leslie and Brad Bucher Artist-in-Residence at the Moody Center for the Arts at Rice University, Houston, Texas. Paglen holds a BA from the University of California, Berkeley, an MFA from the Art Institute of Chicago, and a PhD in Geography from the University of California, Berkeley.

UNKNOWN #87458 (Unclassified object near The Northern Coalsack) by Trevor Paglen — Trevor Paglen, *UNKNOWN #87458 (Unclassified object near The Northern Coalsack)*, 2023, Silver gelatin LE print, 80" × 54" (203.2 cm × 137.2 cm) framed, 81-1/8" × 55-1/8" (206.1 cm × 140 cm)

UNKNOWN #82139 (Unclassified object in the Sadr Region) by Trevor Paglen — Trevor Paglen, *UNKNOWN #82139 (Unclassified object in the Sadr Region)*, 2023, silver gelatin LE print, 50" × 35" (127 cm × 88.9 cm)

Bloom (#5f5554) by Trevor Paglen — Trevor Paglen, *Bloom (#5f5554)*, 2020, dye sublimation print, 69" × 92" (175.3 cm × 233.7 cm) 70-1/8" × 93-1/8" × 2" (178.1 cm × 236.5 cm × 5.1 cm), framed

Laura by Trevor Paglen — Trevor Paglen, *Laura*, 2020, pigment on textile, 45.7 cm × 45.7 cm (18" × 18"); 49.8 cm × 49.8 cm × 3.8 cm (19-5/8" × 19-5/8" × 1-1/2") framed, Edition 1 of 3 + 1 AP

Chemical and Biological Weapons Proving Ground; Dugway, UT; Distance ~ 44 miles by Trevor Paglen — Trevor Paglen, *Chemical and Biological Weapons Proving Ground; Dugway, UT; Distance ~ 44 miles*, 2020, dye sublimation print, 121.9 cm × 121.9 cm (48" × 48"); 124.8 cm × 124.8 cm × 5.1 cm (49-1/8" × 49-1/8" × 2"), framed, Edition 2 of 5 + 2 APs

Classifications of Gait by Trevor Paglen — Trevor Paglen, *Classifications of Gait*, 2020, pigment print, 48" × 48" (121.9 cm × 121.9 cm); 49-1/8" × 49-1/8" × 2" (124.8 cm × 124.8 cm × 5.1 cm), framed, Edition 2 of 5 + 2 APs

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Trevor Paglen One-Artist Exhibitions

Dates

Born 1974, Camp Springs, Maryland

Lives and works in Berlin

Education

2008, University of California at Berkeley, PhD in Geography

2002, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, MFA

1996, University of California at Berkeley, BA

2025

Trevor Paglen: Cardinals, Pace Gallery, 540 West 25th Street, New York, June 26–August 15, 2025.

2024

Trevor Paglen: Cardinals, Altman Siegel Gallery, San Francisco, September 5–November 2, 2024.

2023

Trevor Paglen, Altman Siegel Gallery, San Francisco, November 2–December 16, 2023.

Trevor Paglen: Hide the Real, Show the False, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, June 10–August 6, 2023.

Trevor Paglen, Pace Gallery, 540 West 25th Street, New York, May 12–July 1, 2023. (Artist’s Book)

2022

Trevor Paglen: A Color Notation, Pace Gallery, Seoul, November 11–December 24, 2022.

2021

Beta Space: Trevor Paglen, San José Museum of Art, California, November 5, 2021–November 6, 2022.

Trevor Paglen: Vision After Seeing, The Athenaeum, University of Georgia, Athens, September 9–December 9, 2021.

Trevor Paglen: A Thousand Flowers, Pace Gallery, East Hampton, New York, June 10–27, 2021.

2020

Trevor Paglen: Unseen Stars, Officine Grandi Riparazioni, Turin, Italy, October 10, 2020–January 10, 2021.

Trevor Paglen: Territory, Altman Siegel, San Francisco, June 25–August 8, 2020.

Trevor Paglen: Bloom, Pace Gallery, London, September 10–November 10, 2020.

Trevor Paglen: Opposing Geometries, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, September 4, 2020–March 14, 2021.

Trevor Paglen: Inaugural Exhibition Solo Show, Officine Grandi Riparazioni, Turin, Italy, March 12–May 31, 2020.

2019

Trevor Paglen: Machine Visions, Nam June Paik Art Center, Yongin, South Korea, October 16, 2019–February 2, 2020. (Catalogue)

Trevor Paglen: From ‘Apple’ to ‘Anomaly,’ (Pictures and Labels) Selections from the ImageNet dataset for object recognition, The Curve, Barbican Centre, London, September 26, 2019–February 16, 2020. (Catalogue)

Trevor Paglen: The Shape of Clouds, Pace Gallery, Geneva, September 4–October 24, 2019.

2018

Trevor Paglen: Machine Visions, Fundación Olga y Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City, June 28–September 30, 2018. (Catalogue)

Trevor Paglen: Sites Unseen, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C., June 21, 2018–January 6, 2019. Traveled to: Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, California, February 21, 2019–June 2, 2019. (catalogue)

Trevor Paglen: Surveillance States, Prefix Institute of Contemporary Art, Toronto, May 4–June 16, 2018.

Trevor Paglen: Impossible Objects, Altman Siegel, San Francisco, March 15–May 5, 2018.

2017

Trevor Paglen: How Deep Is the Ocean, How High Is the Sky, Fotograf Gallery, Prague, October 6–November 4, 2017.

Trevor Paglen: Behold These Glorious Times!, Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, September 11, 2017–January 6, 2018.

Trevor Paglen: A Study of Invisible Images, Metro Pictures, New York, September 8–October 21, 2017.

Trevor Paglen: Deep State, Kunsthalle Winterthur, Switzerland, May 28–July 9, 2017.

Trevor Paglen: Autonomy Cube, Tensta Konsthall, Spånga, Sweden, February 1–May 7, 2017. Traveled to: KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, May 2017–April 2018.

2016

Trevor Paglen: Orbital Reflector, Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, April 29, 2016–May 12, 2019.

2015

Trevor Paglen, Metro Pictures, New York, September 10–October 24, 2015.

Trevor Paglen: The Octopus, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Germany, June 20–August 30, 2015.

Trevor Paglen: The Genres, Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, Michigan State University, East Lansing, March 25–September 27, 2015.

Trevor Paglen, Altman Siegel Gallery, San Francisco, March 5–May 2, 2015.

2014

Trevor Paglen: Code Names of the Surveillance State, Metro Pictures, New York, October 25–December 20, 2014.

2013

Trevor Paglen: Code Names, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, the Netherlands, September 19, 2013– January 19, 2014.

Trevor Paglen, Protocinema, Istanbul, September 12–October 25, 2013.

Trevor Paglen, Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne, Germany, September 06–November 02, 2013.

Trevor Paglen, Metro Pictures, New York, February 7–March 9, 2013.

2012

Trevor Paglen: Geographies of Seeing, Brighton Photo Biennial, Lighthouse, United Kingdom, October 6–November 4, 2012.

2011

Trevor Paglen, American University Museum, Katzen Arts Center, Washington, D.C., 2011.

Trevor Paglen: Hidden Landscape, Aksioma, Ljubljana, Slovenia, April 4–22, 2011.

Trevor Paglen: Unhuman, Altman Siegel Gallery, San Francisco, February 10–April 2, 2011.

2010

Trevor Paglen: A Compendium of Secrets, Kunsthalle Giessen, Germany, 2010.

Trevor Paglen, Secession, Vienna, November 26, 2010–February 13, 2011. (catalogue)

Trevor Paglen: The Other Night Sky, Kunsthall Oslo, November 5–December 3, 2010.

2009

Trevor Paglen, Bellwether Gallery, New York, 2009.

Trevor Paglen, Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne, Germany, March 21–June 13, 2009.

Trevor Paglen, Altman Siegel Gallery, San Francisco, February 27–April 11, 2009.

2008

Trevor Paglen: The Other Night Sky / MATRIX 225, University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, June 1–September 14, 2008.

2006

Trevor Paglen: Black World, Bellwether, New York, November 16–December 23, 2006.

2005

Trevor Paglen: Recording Carceral Landscapes, The Lab, San Francisco, April 29–May 28, 2005.

2002

Trevor Paglen, California College of Arts and Crafts, San Francisco, 2002.

2001

Trevor Paglen, Deadtech, Chicago, opened February 9, 2001.

Trevor Paglen, Salina Art Center, Kansas, 2001.

Group Exhibitions

Trevor Paglen Group Exhibitions

2026

Task Eternal, Powerhouse Parramatta, Sydney, opens September 2026.

2025

Bells and Cannons. Contemporary Art in the Face of Militarisation, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuanian, October 16, 2025–February 26, 2026.

Histories of Ecology, Museu de Arte de São Paulo, September 5, 2025–February 1, 2026.

Bleu profond, l’océan révélé, Les Franciscaines, Deauville, France, June 28–September 21, 2025. (Catalogue)

From the Cosmos to the Commons: Between Stars and Signals, Kunsthaus Hamburg, Germany, June 21–August 17, 2025.

The Arrested Image: Identity through the Lens of Law Enforcement, Dorsky Museum of Art, State University of New York at New Paltz, June 14–November 2, 2025.

Topographies, Des Moines Art Center, Iowa, June 13– September 13, 2026

The World Through AI, Jeu de Paume, Paris, April 11–September 21, 2025.

Theater of the Times: Realistic Interpretations in Contemporary Image Art, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, March 29–July 13, 2025.

Cosmos, Teylers Museum, Haarlem, the Netherlands, February 13–June 29, 2025. (Catalogue)

Poetics of Encryption, Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague, February 13–May 11, 2025. (Catalogue)

2024

Imaging Black Diasporas: 21st Century Art and Poetics, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, December 15–August 3, 2025.

Access Kafka, Jewish Museum, Berlin, December 13, 2024–May 4, 2025. (Catalogue)

Right Where It Belongs, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, November 30,

2024–February 16, 2025.

Space City: Art in the Age of Artemis, Asia Society, Houston, Texas, October 18, 2024–March 16, 2025.

All Power to the People: Black Panthers at 50!, Oakland Museum of California, October 8, 2016–February 26, 2017.

Poetic Record: Photography in a Transformed World, Lewis Center for the Arts, Princeton University, New Jersey, October 1–December 5, 2024.

Poetics of Encryption: Art and Artificial Intelligence, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, September 28, 2024–January 12, 2025.

Digital Capture: Southern California and the Origins of the Pixel-Based Image World, California Museum of Photography and Culver Center of the Arts, Riverside, September 21, 2024–February 2, 2025.

Universal / Remote, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, June 29–September 1, 2024.

As the sky changes tone, I'll be absolutely tender, Halsey Mckay Gallery, East Hampton, New York

June 29–July 22, 2024.

Summer Group Show, Pace Gallery, Hong Kong, June 26–August 9, 2024.

Universal / Remote, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, June 29–September 1, 2024.

Out of Site: Survey Science and the Hidden West, Autry Museum of the American West, Los Angeles, May 19, 2024–January 5, 2025.

Fragile Beauty: Photographs from the Sir Elton John and David Furnish Collection, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, May 18, 2024–January 5, 2025. (Catalogue)

The Camera Never Lies: Challenging images through The Incite Project, Sainsbury Centre

for Visual Arts, Norwich, United Kingdom, May 18–October 20, 2024.

Survival in the 21st Century, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany, May 17–November 3, 2024.

The Atlantic Ocean: Myths, Art, Science, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Høvikodden, Norway, April 26–September 15, 2024.

What an Artificial World, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Cheongju, South Korea, April 26– August 25, 2024.

Myths, Art, Science, Henie Onstad Art Ccenter, Høvikodden, Norway, April 26–September 15, 2024. (Catalogue)

The Atlantic Ocean, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Høvikodden, Norway, April 26–September 15, 2024.

Floral Abundance, Hunter Dunbar Gallery, New York, March 21–May 4, 2024.

Universal / Remote, The National Art Center, Tokyo, March 6–June 3, 2024. Traveled to: Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, June 29–September 1, 2024; CAMK - Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto, Japan, October 7–December 17, 2023.

Poetics of Encryption, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, February 17–May 26, 2024.

Online: Uncomputables - On Alien Intelligences and Cybernetics, e-flux Website, February 12–18, 2024.

Size Matters. Scale in Photography, Kunstpalast Düsseldorf, Germany, February 1–May

20, 2024.

2023

Behold these Glorious Times!, Matadero Madrid, December 14, 2023–February 25, 2024.

The Irreplaceable Human, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark, November 23, 2023–April 1, 2024.

Codes and algorithms. Wisdom in a calculated world, iMAL, Center for Digital Cultures and Technology, Brussels, November 17, 2023–February 18, 2024.

14th Shanghai Biennale, Power Station of Art, Shanghai, November 9, 2023–March 31, 2024.

Universal / Remote, CAMK - Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto, Japan, October 7–December 17, 2023.

A Well-trained Eye, Visual Arts Center, University of Texas, Austin, September 22, 2023–March 2, 2024.

Corps à corps: Histoire(s) de la photogrpahie, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, September 6, 2023–March 25, 2024. (Catalogue)

Deep Deep Down - Collection presentation, Mudam Luxembourg, Luxembourg City, June 30, 2023–February 18, 2024.

TOP SECRET: Cinema & Spy, CaixaForum Madrid, June 27–October 22, 2023. Traveled to: CaixaForum Barcelona, November 21, 2023–March 17, 2024.

My Life in the Metaverse, Manarat Al Saadiyat, Abu Dhabi, November 14, 2022–January 22, 2023.

14th Shanghai Biennale, Power Station of Art, Shanghai, November 9, 2023–March 31, 2024.

Unids, Altman Siegel Gallery, San Francisco, November 2–December 16, 2023.

Universal / Remote, Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto, Japan, October 7–December 17,

2023.

A Well-trained Eye, Visual Arts Center, The University of Texas, Austin, September 22, 2023–

March 2, 2024.

Corps à corps: Histoire(s) de la photographie, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, September 6, 2023–

March 24, 2024.

Deep Deep Down - Collection presentation, Mudam Luxembourg, Luxembourg City, June 30, 2023–February 18, 2024.

Top Secret, CaixaForum Madrid, June 27–October 22, 2023.

What Has Been and What Could Be: The BAMPFA Collection, University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, June 7–July 7, 2023.

Picasso: Untitled, La Casa Encendida, Madrid, May 19, 2023–January 7, 2024.

L'Univers san l'Homme (The Universe without Man), Musée de Valence, France, May 13–September 17, 2023. (Magazine)

Images, FRAC Normandie, Caen, France, April 8–September 3, 2023.

1.5 Degrees, Kunsthalle Mannheim, Germany, April 6–October 8, 2023.

So it appears, Institute for Contemporary Art, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, February 24–July 16, 2023.

I'll Be Your Mirror: Art and the Digital Screen, The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas, February 12–April 30, 2023. (Catalogue)

A leap into the void. Art beyond matter, Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Bergamo, Italy, February 2–May 28, 2023.

Land and Sea, Hunter Dunbar Gallery, New York, January 26–March 11, 2023.

2022

My Life in the Metaverse, Abu Dhabi Art, United Arab Emirates, November 15, 2022–January 22, 2023.

Top Secret : cinéma et espionnage, La Cinémathèque Française, Paris, October 21, 2022–May 21, 2023.

Codes and algorithms. Wisdom in a calculated world, Espacio Fundación Telefónica, Madrid, October 19, 2022–April 17, 2023.

Slip.Steam.Slip (Part 2), Model Gallery, School of Digital Arts at Manchester Metropolitan University, United Kingdom, October 13–December 16, 2022.

On Repeat: Serial Photography, Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin, September 2, 2022–January 1, 2023.

Songs of the Sky: Photography & the Cloud - Les Rencontres de la Photographie, Monoprix, Arles, France, July 4–September 25, 2022.

Pervasive Light: Works from MoMA’s Media and Performance Collection, Storage by Hyundai Card, Seoul, June 24–September 25, 2022.

Statecraft (and beyond), National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, June 16–November 20, 2022.

What Has Been and What Could Be: The BAMPFA Collection, University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, June 7, 2023–July 7, 2024.

A Thousand Secrets, apexart, New York, June 3–July 31, 2022.

Systems, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, May 1, 2022–March 23, 2024.

Remaking The Exceptional: Tea, Torture, & Reparations | Chicago to Guantánamo, DePaul Art Museum, Chicago, March 10–August 7, 2022.

Remarking the Exceptional: Tea, Torture & Reparations | Chicago to Guantánamo, DePaul Art Museum, Chicago, March 10–August 7, 2022.

Metadata: Rethinking Photography from the 21st Century, The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, Florida, March 5–August 28, 2022. (Catalogue)

Worlds of Networks, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, February 23–April 25, 2022.

Llum Festival, Barcelona, February 4–6, 2022.

Soundwaves: Experimental Strategies in Art + Music, Moody Center for the Arts, Rice University, Houston, Texas, January 28–May 14, 2022.

INFORMATION (Today), Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, January 27–April 24, 2022.

2021

Songs of the Sky: Photography & the Cloud, C/O Berlin, December 11, 2021–April 12, 2022.

Face Control, Fundación Foto Colectania, Barcelona, December 3, 2021–March 20, 2022.

Productive Image Disturbance, Sigmar Polke and Current Artistic Positions, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Germany, November 13, 2021–February 6, 2022.

Ludwig Wittgenstein: Photography as an Analytical Practice, Leopold Museum, Vienna, November 12, 2021–March 6, 2022.

True Pictures? Contemporary Photography from Canada and the USA, Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany, November 6, 2021–February 13, 2022. Traveled to: Salzburg Museum der Moderne, Austria, March 12–June 26, 2022.

Paper Chase: Ten Years of Collecting Prints Drawings, and Photographs at The Cantor, Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University, California, September 29, 2021–January 30, 2022.

Toward Common Cause, Stony Island Arts Bank, Chicago, July 15–December 19, 2021.

Hiding in Plain Sight, Pace Gallery, 540 West 25th Street, New York, July 14–August 21, 2021. (Booklet)

Online: Hiding in Plain Sight: In Focus, Pace Gallery Website, July 14–August 20, 2021.

and& Festival, STUK Arts Center, Leuven, Belgium, April 21–April 25, 2021.

Rethinking Collectivity: Guangzhou Image Triennial 2021, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China, March 2021.

Shaping the Invisible World, Haus der Elektronischen Künste Basel, Switzerland, March 3–May 23, 2021.

Dear Truth: Documentary Strategies in Contemporary Photography, Hasselblad Center, Gothenburg, Sweden, February 5–May 3, 2021.

Age of You, Jameel Arts Centre, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, January 28–August 14, 2021.

2020

Hidden States, Baltic Center for Contemporary Art, 2020.

Nature of Robotics: An Expanded Field, EPFL Pavilions, Lausanne, Switzerland, November 5, 2020–May 16, 2021

Citizenship: A Practice of Society, Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, Colorado, October 2, 2020–February 14, 2021.

We Never Sleep, Schirin Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, September 23, 2020–January 10, 2021. (Catalogue)

From Luther to Twitter. Media and Public Sphere, Stiftung Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin, September 20, 2020–April 11, 2021. (Brochure)

Another World///In Our World, FRAC Grand Large - Hauts-de-France, Dunkerque, France, September 19, 2020–March 14, 2021.

States of Mind: Art and American Democracy, Moody Center for the Arts, Rice University, Houston, Texas, September 19–December 19, 2020.

Die Wolken und die Wolke (The Clouds and the Cloud), Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen, Siegen University, Germany, September 4, 2020–January 10, 2021.

Gathering Clouds: Photographs from the Nineteenth Century and Today, George Eastman Museum, Rochester, New York, July 26, 2020–January 3, 2021.

Toward Common Cause: Art, Social Change, and the MacArthur Fellows Program at 40, The Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago, July 15–December 19, 2021.

Fair Use: What’s Mine is Yours, Altman Siegel Gallery, San Francisco, July 8–September 3, 2021.

The Roaring Twenties, Kunsthaus Zürich, July 3–October 11, 2020. Traveled to: Museo Guggenheim, Bilbao, Spain, May 7–September 19, 2021.

Art in the Age of Anxiety, Sharjah Art Foundation, United Arab Emirates, June 26–September 26, 2020. (Postponed)

INFORMATION (Today), Kunsthalle Basel, June 25–October 10, 2021.

The Supermarket of Images, Red Brick Art Museum, Beijing, May 29–September 15, 2021.

44 Signs of the Times, Mana Contemporary, Jersey City, New Jersey, May 20–July 23, 2021.

Sensing Nature, Galerie Helke Strelow, Frankfurt, May 14–July 16, 2021.

Smoke and Mirrors. The Roaring Twenties, Museo Guggenheim, Bilbao, Spain, May 7–September

19, 2021.

Schall und Rauch. Die wilden 20er, Kunsthaus Zürich, April 24–July 19, 2020.

Look At Us Now - and& Festival, STUK Arts Center, Leuven, Belgium, April 21–25, 2021.

Dear Truth: Documentary Strategies in Contemporary Photography, Hasselblad Foundation,

Gothenburg, Sweden, April 20–May 09, 2021.

Rethinking Collectivity – Guangzhou Image Triennial 2021, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China, March 30–May 30, 2021.

Stories of Resistance, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, Missouri, March 12–August 15, 2021.

Ghigi Collection | GRANDI COLLEZIONI 02, Museo Licini, Ascoli Piceno, Italy, March 27–June 12, 2021.

Shaping the Invisible World - Digital Cartography as an Instrument of Knowledge, HeK – Haus der elektronischen Künste, Basel, March 3–May 23, 2021.

2020

The World to Come: Art in the Age of the Anthropocene, DePaul Art Museum, Chicago, March 19–August 16, 2020.

Uncanny Valley: Being Human in the Age of AI, de Young Museum, San Francisco, February 22, 2020–26, 2021. (Catalogue)

The Supermarket of Images, Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume, Paris, February 11–March 16, 2020.

A Year Without the Southern Sun, Hua International, Berlin, February 8–June 4, 2020.

Age of You, Jameel Arts Center, Dubai, January 29–August 14, 2021.

Where Art and Tech Collide, Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, January 25–June 21, 2020.

Walls Turned Sideways: Artists Confront the Justice System, Tufts University Art Galleries, Boston, January 23–April 19, 2020.

In Real Life, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, January 16–March 13, 2020.

An Infinite and Omnvorous Sky, University Galleries at Illinois State University, Normal, January 10–February 19, 2020. (Catalogue)

2019

Water, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia, December 7, 2019–March 23, 2020.

Tell me about yesterday tomorrow, NS-Dokumentationszentrum, Munich, Germany, November 28, 2019–October 18, 2020.

Eureka! Creativity in California: Artists of the Golden State at the Governor's Mansion, Sacramento, California, November 14, 2019–November 30, 2021.

The Assembled Human, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany, November 8, 2019–March 15, 2020.

A Confrontation of Ideals: 2nd Anren Biennale, Anren, China, October 12, 2019–February 12, 2020.

Decoys & Depictions: Images of the Digital, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri, October 4–November 16, 2019.

Art Encounters Biennial 2019, Timișoara, Romania, September 20–October 27, 2019.

Kate Crawford | Trevor Paglen: Training Humans, Osservatorio Fondazione Prada, Milan, September 12, 2019–February 24, 2020.

Age of You, Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto, September 5, 2019–January 5, 2020.

Vanitas Contemporary, H2 – Zentrum für Gegenwartskunst im Glaspalast, Ausburg, Germany, July 23, 2019–January 19, 2020.

Kronos Quartet & Trevor Paglen: Sight Machine, Barbican Hall, London, July 11, 2019.

Science Fiction, Philip and Muriel Berman Museum of Art, Ursinus College, Collegeville, Pennsylvania July 2–October 6, 2019.

And What About Photography, David Nolan Gallery, New York, June 20–August 2, 2019.

Here We Are Today, Bucerius Kunst Forum, Hamburg, Germany, June 7–September 29, 2019.

UNCANNY VALUES. Artificial Intelligence and you, Vienna Biennale 2019, MAK, May 29–October 6, 2019.

Reporting From the Front, Biennale Architettura 2016, Venice, May 28–November 27, 2016.

Moonlight - 50 Years of Photographing the Moon, Hasselblad Foundation, Gothenburg, Sweden, May 24–September 22, 2019.

Time, Forward!, V–A–C Foundation, Venice, May 11–October 20, 2019.

Entangled Realities – Living with Artificial Intelligence, Haus der elektronischen Künste, Basel, May 9–August 11, 2019.

The World to Come: Art in the Age of the Anthropocene, University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, April 27–July 28, 2019.

New Order: Art and Technology in the Twenty-First Century, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, March 17–June 15, 2019.

Into the Unknown: A Journey through Science Fiction, Kunsthall Rotterdam, March 16–June 30, 2019.

The Moon - From Inner Worlds to Outer Space, Henie Onstad Art Center, Høvikodden, Norway, February 14–May 20, 2019.

Beyond Truth: Photography after the Shutter, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio, February 10–May 26, 2019.

Fact and Fiction in Contemporary Photography, Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska, February 8–May 10, 2019.

The New Alphabet – Opening Days, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, January 10–13, 2019.

2018

Art in the Age of the Internet, 1989 to Today, University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, December 15, 2018–April 7, 2019. (Catalogue)

Ansel Adams in Our Time, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, December 13, 2018–February 24, 2019.

Unsettled, Palm Springs Art Museum, California, October 27, 2018–April 30, 2019.

Artes Mundi 8, National Museum, Cardiff, Wales, October 26, 2018–February 24, 2019.

Kronos Quartet & Trevor Paglen: Sight Machine, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C., October 25, 2018–January 6, 2019.

Low Form. Imaginaries and Visions in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, MAXXI – National Museum of 21st Century Art, Rome, October 20, 2018–March 24, 2019.

Capitalist Realism: Future Perfect - Thessaloniki PhotoBiennale 2018, Thessaloniki Museum of Photography, Greece, September 28, 2018–April 10, 2019.

Into the Unknown: A Journey through Science Fiction, Kunstmuseum Brandts, Odense, Denmark

September 27, 2018–February 17, 2019.

Extra States: Nations in Liquidation, Kunsthal Extra City, Antwerp, Belgium, September 22–December

16, 2018.

Im Zweifel für den Zweifel: Die große Weltverschwörung, NRW-Forum Düsseldorf, Germany, September 21–November 18, 2018.

The Value of Freedom, Belvedere 21, Vienna, September 19, 2018–February 10, 2019.

Everything Is Connected: Art and Conspiracy, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, September 18, 2018–January 06, 2019. (Catalogue)

The World to Come: Art in the Age of the Anthropocene, Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainesville, September 18, 2018–March 3, 2019. (Catalogue)

The Moon - From Inner Worlds to Outer Space, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark, September 13, 2018–January 20, 2019. (Catalogue)

Imagined Borders - 12th Gwangju Biennale, Korea, September 7–November 11, 2018.

Walls Turned Sideways: Artists Confront the Justice System, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, August 25, 2018-January 6, 2019. (Catalogue)

Nina Beier, Judith Hopf, John Miller & Trevor Paglen, Halsey Mckay Gallery, East Hampton, New York,

August 4–26, 2018.

Nothing Will Be As Before, Tanya Leighton, Berlin, July 10–August 18, 2018.

I Was Raised on the Internet, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, June 23–October 14, 2018. (Catalogue)

The Planetary Garden - Manifesta 12, Palazzo Ajutamicristo, Palermo, Sicily, June 16–November 4, 2018.

Kronos Quartet & Trevor Paglen: Sight Machine - Holland Festival, Muziekgebouw, Amsterdam, June 15, 2018.

[CONTROL] NO CONTROL, Triennal of Photographie Hamburg, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany, June 8–September 23, 2018.

Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More, Riga International Biennial of Contemporary Art (RIBOCA), SPORTA 2 quarter, Riga, Latvia, June 2–October 28, 2018.

When Facts Don't Matter, St Carthage Hall, Lismore, United Kingdom, May 2–July 8, 2018.

Ghost Nets, Galeria OMR, Mexico City, May 24–June 30, 2018.

The Future Starts Here, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, May 12–November 4, 2018.

Expanding Narratives: The Figure and the Ground, The Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago, April 24–December 16, 2018.

Electronic Superhighway (2016-1966), Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology, Lisbon, March 19–November 8, 2018.

Nothing Stable Under Heaven, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, March 3–September 16, 2018.

I am here to learn: On Machinic Interpretations of the World, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, February 15–April 8, 2018.

Faithless Pictures, National Museum, Oslo, February 9–May 13, 2018.

Art in the Age of the Internet, 1989 to Today, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, February 7–May 20, 2018.

2017

Please come back. The world as prison?, Institut Valencià d'Art Modern, Spain, November 28, 2017–April 8, 2018.

The Electric Comma, V–A–C Zattere, Venice, November 26, 2017–March 31, 2018.

Rivoluzione Galile: L'Arte Incontra la Scienza, Palazzo del Monte di Pietà, Padua, Italy, November 18, 2017–March 18, 2018.

ILLEGAL, The Luggage Store Gallery, San Francisco, November 10–December 16, 2017.

yet incomputable. Indetermination in the Age of Hypervisibility and Algorithmic Control,

Sammlung Falckenberg, Hamburg, Germany, November 4–December 17, 2017.

Age of Terror: Art since 9/11, Imperial War Museum, London, October 26, 2017–May 28, 2018.

Into the Unknown: A Journey through Science Fiction, Onassis Cultural Center, Athens, Greece,

October 9, 2017–January 14, 2018.

The Photographic I – Other Pictures, Stedelijk Museumm voor Actuele Kunst, Ghent, Belgium, October 7, 2017–January 21, 2018.

Spectacle & Scaffolding: Contemporary Photography Muses Hierarchy, Turchin Center for the Visual Arts, Boone North Carolina, October 6, 2017–January 6, 2018.

Time as Landscape: Inquiries of Art and Science, Rollins Museum of Art, Rollins College, Winter Park, Florida, September 29–December 31, 2017.

Stars Cosmic Art from 1900 up to the Present, Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz, Austria, September 29,

2017–January 14, 2018.

The Image of War, Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm, September 20, 2017–January 14, 2018.

Dizziness. Navigating the Unknown, Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw, Poland, September 15, 2017–January 7, 2018.

Escaping the Digital Unease, Kunsthaus Lagenthal, Switzerland, August 31–November 12, 2017.

Unsettled, Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, August 26, 2017–January 21, 2018.

From Counterculture to Cyberculture, Altman Siegel Gallery, San Francisco, July 7–August 26, 2017.

Pledges of Allegiance, USF Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, Florida, July 2017–July 2018.

A New Ballardian Vision, Metro Pictures, New York, June 29–August 4, 2017.

Sunset Décor, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, June 28–August 25, 2017.

Whistleblowers & Vigilantes. Figures of Digital Resistance, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, June 18–August 13, 2017.

Scenographies of Power: from the State of Exception to the Spaces of Exception, La Casa Encendida, Madrid, June 16–September 10, 2017.

Into the Unknown: A Journey through Science Fiction, Barbican Centre, London, June 3–September 1, 2017.

The Eye and the Sky: Trevor Paglen in the Cantor Collection, Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, California, May 16–August 31, 2017.

The Universe and Art, ArtScience Museum, Singapore, April 1–July 30, 2017.

Vanishing Points, James Cohan Gallery, New York, March 23–April 22, 2017.

No Secrets!, ERES-Stiftung, Munich, March 23–July 16, 2017.

Contemporary Photography, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, March 17–June 18, 2017.

Polyphonic Worlds: Justice as Medium, Contour Biennale 8, kunstencentrum nona, Mechelen, Belgium

March 11–May 21, 2017.

Nothing to Hide? Art, Surveillance, and Privacy, Real Art Ways, Hartford Connecticut, March 4–June 19, 2017.

WATCHED! SURVEILLANCE, ART & PHOTOGRAPHY, C/O Berlin, February 18–April 23, 2017.

Please come back. The world as prison?, MAXXI – National Museum of 21st Century Art, Rome, February 9–May 28, 2017

Dizziness. Navigating the Unknown., Kunsthaus Graz, Austria, February 9–May 28, 2017.

Kronos Quartet & Trevor Paglen: Sight Machine, Pier70, San Francisco, opened January 14, 2017.

2016

Will and Be Going To, Altman Siegel, San Francisco, November 11–December 17, 2016.

Dispatches, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, November 1, 2016–February 19, 2017.

The Sun Placed in The Abyss, Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio, October 7, 2016–January 8, 2017. (Catalogue)

Home Land Security, Presidio, San Francisco, September 10–December 18, 2016.

The Eighth Climate (What does art do?), 11th Gwangju Biennale, Korea, September 2–November 4, 2016.

The Universe and Art, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, July 30, 2016–January 9, 2017.

(Infra) Structure: complex, below and further on, Lannan Foundation, Santa Fe, New Mexico, July 16–August 29, 2016.

Paradise Lost, Museum Villa Rot, Burgrieden, Germany, July 3–October 16, 2016.

Invisible Adversaries, Marieluise Hessel Collection, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, June 25–September 18, 2016.

Public, Private, Secret, International Center of Photography, New York, June 23, 2016–January 8, 2017.

What People Do for Money, Manifesta 11, Löwenbräukunst, Zurich, June 11–September 18, 2016.

9th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, June 4–September

18, 2016.

California and the West: Photography from the campaign for Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, May 14–September 5, 2016.

The Distance of a Day: New in Contemporary Art, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, April 20–October 29,

2016.

Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2016, The Photographers' Gallery, London, April 15–July 3, 2016.

Whistleblowers & Vigilantes. Figures of Digital Resistance, Hartware MedienKunstVerein, Dortmund, Germany, April 9–August 14, 2016.

Safe and Sound: Surveillance and Protection in the 21st Century, mudac - Musée cantonal de design et d’arts appliqués contemporains, Lausanne, Switzerland, March 23–August 21, 2016.

L’image volée, Fondazione Prada, Milan, March 18–August 21, 2016.

Digital Archives, Kunstverein Hannover, Germany, March 12–May 29, 2016.

From Minimalism into Algorithm, The Kitchen, New York, March 3–April 2, 2016.

Radical Landscapes, di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art, Napa, California, February 6–April 3, 2016.

Electronic Superhighway (2016-1966), Whitechapel Gallery, London, January 29–May 15, 2016.

To See Without Being Seen: Contemporary Art and Drone Warfare, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, January 29–April 24, 2016.

Time / Image, Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, January 29–April 23,

2016.

2015

Globale: Global Control And Censorship, ZKM - Zentrum für Kunst und Medien, Karlsruhe, Germany, October 3, 2015–May 1, 2016.

Eppur si muove (And yet it turns), Mudam Luxembourg, Luxembourg City, July 9, 2015–January 17,

2016.

Art In The Age Of… (series) II. Planetary Computation; III. Asymmetrical Warfare, Witte de With, Rotterdam, May 22, 2015–January 3, 2016.

Little Sister (is watching you, too), Pratt Manhattan Gallery, New York, December 11, 2015–January 30, 2016.

Social Ecologies, Industry City, New York, December 10, 2015–February 21, 2016.

Art Basel 2015, Miami Beach, Florida, December 3–6, 2015.

Political Populism, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, November 7, 2015–February 7, 2016.

2015 FIAC International Contemporary Art Fair, Grand Palais Éphémère, Paris, October 22–25, 2015.

Time / Image, Blaffer Art Museum at The University of Houston, Texas, September 26–December 12, 2015.

Don't Follow the Wind, Fukushima Exclusion Zone, Japan, opened September 19, 2015.

Fotofestival Mannheim-Ludwigshafen-Heidelberg, Heidelberger Kunstverein, Heidelberg, September 18–November 15, 2015.

Necessary Force: Art in the Police State, University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque, September 11–December 12, 2015.

Covert Operations: Investigating the Known Unknowns, San José Museum of Art, California, June 30, 2015–January 10, 2016.

Under the Clouds, Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Serralves, Porto, Portugal, June 20–September 20, 2015.

Art Basel 2015, Basel, June 20–21, 2015.

When we share more than ever - 6th Triennial of Photography Hamburg, MKG - Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, Germany, June 19–September 20, 2015.

Gimme Shelter: Forts and Fictions in the Lowlands, Kunstfort Asperen, Beetsterzwaag, the Netherlands, May 30–September 20, 2015.

ARSTRONOMY: Incursions into the Cosmos, La Casa Encendida, Madrid, May 13–August 30, 2015.

SEVEN, The Boiler, New York, May 8–17, 2015.

Cosmosis, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, May 3–August 23, 2015.

Networked Disruption, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rijeka, Croatia, April 23–May 14, 2015.

Sebald Variations, Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona, March 11–July 26, 2015. (Catalogue)

Panopticon: Visibility, Data and the Monitoring Gaze, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Salt Lake City, February 13–July 25, 2015.

Border Cultures: Part Three (security, surveillance), Art Gallery of Windsor, Canada, January 31–May 10, 2015.

2014

They Used to Call it the Moon, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Newcastle, United Kingdom, October 31, 2014–January 11, 2015.

Covert Operations: Investigating the Known Unknowns, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Arizona, September 28, 2014–January 11, 2015.

Fractured Narratives: A Strategy to Engage, Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Rollins College, Winter Park, Florida, September 17, 2014–January 4, 2015.

Un saber realmente útil, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, October 29, 2014– February 9, 2015.

Gorgeous, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, June 20–September 14, 2014.

The Last Pictures, Photomonth Festival, Krakow, Poland, May 15–June 15, 2014.

Smart New World, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Germany, April 5–August 10, 2014.

#1: Cartagena Biennial, Cartagena de Indias, Colombia, February 7–April 7, 2014.

CounterIntellegence, Justina M. Barnicke Gallery Hart House, University of Toronto, January 24–March 16, 2014.

2013

Anamericana, American Academy in Rome and DEPART Foundation, Rome, 2014.

Artists-in-Residence: New Works, ArtPace, San Antonio, Texas, 2013.

The Automated Image, Le Mois de la Photo à Montréal, 2014.

Trace Recordings, UTS Gallery, University of Technology, Sydney, 2014.

Visibility Machines: Harun Farocki and Trevor Paglen, Center for Art Design & Visual Culture, Baltimore, Maryland, October 24, 2013–February 22, 2014. Traveled to: Akademie der Künste, Berlin, September 17–December 14, 2014; Gallery 400, University of Illinois, Chicago, January 16–March 7, 2015. (Catalogue)

Dissident Futures, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, October 18, 2013–February 2, 2014.

Quiet Earth, presented by Ballroom Marfa, Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, New York, October 15–November 30, 2013.

Surveying the Terrain, Contemporary Art Museum of Raleigh, North Carolina, October 4, 2013–January 13, 2014.

Weather Permitting, 9th Bienal do Mercosul, Porto Alegre, Brazil, September 13–November 10,2013.

On Watching and Being Seen, Northern Illinois University Art Museum, DeKalb, August 27–October 19, 2013.

A Democracy of Images: Photographs from the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C., June 27, 2013–January 5, 2014.

A Different Kind of Order: The ICP Triennial, International Center of Photography, New York, May 17– September 22, 2013.

2012

In the Holocene, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2012.

How Much Fascism?, BAK basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht, the Netherlands, 2012.

Image Counter Image, Haus der Kunst, Munich, 2012.

The Unexpected Guest, Liverpool Biennial, United Kingdom, 2012.

The Unseen: Fourth Guangzhou Triennial, Guandong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China, 2012.

Ministry of Truth, Boers-Li Gallery, Beijing, 2012.

More Real? Art in the Age of Truthiness, SITE Santa Fe, New Mexico, 2012.

Object Fictions, James Cohan Gallery, New York, 2012.

2011

The Actions of Things, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, 2011.

After the Crash, Universitá delle Marche, Rome, 2011.

After the Gold Rush: Contemporary Photographs from the Collection, Joyce and Robert Menschel Hall for Modern Photography, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2011.

The Altered Landscape: Photographs of a Changing Environment, Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, 2011.

Architecture of Fear, Z33, Hasselt, Belgium, 2011.

design is design is not design, Gwangju Design Biennale 2011, Gwangju Biennale Hall, South Korea, 2011.

Details, Bergen Kunsthall, Norway, 2011.

The Encuentro de Medellin, 2011, Museo de Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia, 2011.

Fifty Years of Bay Area Art: The SECA Awards, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2011.

Graphic Design – Now in Production, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 2011. Traveled to: Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, New York, 2011; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, 2011; Grand Rapids Art Museum and Kendall College of Art Gallery, Michigan, 2011; Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, 2011; Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, 2011; Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, 2011.

Invisible Fields: Geographies of Radio Waves, Centre d'Art Santa Mònica, Barcelona, 2011.

Magical Consciousness, Arnolfini, Bristol, United Kingdom, 2011.

Nous ne notons pas les fleurs, dit le géographe, Bétonsalon - Centre d'art et de recherche, Paris, 2011.

Secret Satellites, Belfast Exposed, Ireland, 2011.

The Spectacle of War, The Empty Quarter, Dubai, 2011.

Unnamed Design, 4th Gwangju Design Biennale, South Korea, 2011.

Wild Sky, Edith-Ruß-Haus, Oldenburg, Germany, 2011.

2010

The Art of War, CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, New York, 2010.

California Invitational, Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, 2010.

Catastrophe? Quelle catastrophe?, Manif d'art 5 / The Québec City Biennial, 2010.

Disappeared, Goff and Rosenthal, New York, 2010.

Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance and the Camera, Tate Modern, London; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; and the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 2010.

Free, The New Museum, New York, 2010.

I Spy: Security and Surveillance, Sun Valley Museum of Art, Ketchum, Idaho, 2010.

Portraits and Power: People, Politics, and Structures, Centro di Cultura Contemporanea Strozzina, Florence, 2010.

(Out of) Control, 7th International Biennial of Photography and Visual Arts, Liège, Belgium, 2010.

Rethinking Location. Anytime Anywhere Everything, Galerie Sprüth Magers, Berlin, 2010.

Road to Nowhere, FotoFest 2010 Biennial, Houston, 2010.

Schritte ins Verborgene = Steps into the arcane, Kunstmuseum Thrugau, Warth, Switzerland, 2010. (catalogue)

Started in Secret: The Art of the Mysterious, Kunstmuseum Kantons Thurgau, Switzerland, 2010.

Vortexhibition Polyphonica, Henry Art Museum, University of Washington, Seattle, 2010.

2009

10th Havana Biennial Art Exhibition, Cuba, 2009.

Still Revolution, CONTACT Photography Festival, Toronto, 2009.

2008 SECA Art Award Exhibition, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, 2009. (catalogue)

Close Encounters 2: Acts of Social Imagination, Nathan Cummings Foundation, New York, 2009.

Desert Secrets, Utah Museum of Fine Art, Salt Lake City, 2009.

FEEDFORWARD - The Angel of History, Laboral Art Center, Gijon, Spain, 2009.

Red Thread, TANAS - Space for Contemporary Turkish Art, Berlin, 2009.

Schneider Museum of Art, Southern Oregon University, Ashland, 2009.

Still Revolution: Suspended in Time, CONTACT Toronto Photography Festival and the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto, 2009.

Tech Tools of the Trade: Contemporary New Media Art, de Saisset Museum, Santa Clara University, California, 2009.

Universal Code, The Power Plant, Toronto, 2009.

A Universe We Can Believe In, Oliver Art Center, California College of the Arts, Oakland, 2009.

What Keeps Mankind Alive?, 11th International Istanbul Biennial, Antrepo No.3, Turkey, 2009.

2008

Berkeley Big Bang 08, University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive 2008.

Conspire, Transmediale 2008, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, 2008.

Experimental Geography: Radical Approaches to Landscape, Cartography, and Urbanism, Richard E. Peeler Art Center, DePauw University, Greencastle, Indiana, 2008. Traveled to: Miller Gallery, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 2008; Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine, 2008. (catalogue)

The New Normal, Artists Space, New York. Traveled to: Huarte Centro de Arte Contemporáneo, Spain and the Canzani Center Gallery, Columbus College of Art & Design, Ohio, 2008.

Off the Grid, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, State University of New York, 2008.

In the Private Eye, ISE Cultural Foundation, New York, 2008.

Taipei Biennial, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, 2008.

2007

6 Billion Perps Held Hostage! Artists Address Global Warming, The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 2007.

Crimes of Omission, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 2007.

Dark Matters: Artists See the Impossible, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, 2007.

The Landscape of War, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, California, 2007.

Ominous Atmosphere, Heather Marx Gallery, San Francisco, 2007.

2006

The Culture of Fear/Die Kultur der Angst, HALLE 14, Leipzig, Germany, 2007.

Dataesthetics Reloaded, Galerija Nova, Zagreb, Croatia, 2007.

Dystopische Landschaft, Kunstraum Muenchen, Munich, 2007.

A Historic Occasion, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams, 2007.

Only the Paranoid Survive, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, New York, 2007.

2005

Thought Crimes: The Art of Subversion, Diverse Works, Houston, Texas, 2005.

2004

The Big Nothing: A Void, Philadelphia Institute of Contemporary Art, Pennsylvania, 2004.

Echo Local, Gallery 400, Chicago, 2004.

2003

Collaboration with Greg Niemeyer, Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, California, 2003.

Operation How, Now, Wow, 16 Beaver Space, New York, 2003.

Version 3, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, 2003.

2002

Plug and Play, Artswatch, Louisville, Kentucky, 2002.

POW!, California College of Arts and Crafts, San Francisco, 2002.

Version 2.0, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, 2002.

2001

Book Show, Temporary Services, Chicago, 2001.

Resynthesis, Betty Rymer Gallery, Chicago, 2001.

The Summer Show, Gallery 312, Chicago, 2001.

2000

Counter Productive Industries, 1926 Gallery, Chicago, 2000.

Public Collections

Trevor Paglen Public Collections

Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Ohio

Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas

Art Vontobel Collection, Zurich

Baltimore Museum of Art, Maryland

The Cleveland Clinic, Ohio

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio

Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine

Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio

Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Rollins College, Winter Park, Florida

Dallas Museum of Art, Texas

The Denning House Collection, Stanford University, California

Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University, East Lansing

FRAC Nord-Pas de Calais, Dunkerque, France

Henry Art Gallery, The University of Washington, Seattle

Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston

Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, California

The Israel Museum, Jerusalem

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri

MIT List Visual Arts Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge

Mudam Luxembourg, Luxembourg City

Musée d'art contemporain de Montreal

Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, California

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas

The Museum of Modern Art, New York

National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri

Nevada Museum of Art, Reno

The New School Art Collection, New York

Oakland Museum, California

RISD Museum, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence

Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainesville

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Santa Barbara Museum of Art, California

Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York

Thoma Art Foundation, Santa Fe, New Mexico and Chicago

University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

Utah Museum of Fine Arts, University of Utah, Salt Lake City

Victoria and Albert Museum, London

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Periodicals

Trevor Paglen Periodicals

2025

Corry, Ellen. “Trevor Paglen: Cardinals | Pace Gallery” (exhibition review). Musée Magazine, 25 June 2025. https://museemagazine.com/culture/2025/6/23/trevor-paglen-cardinals-pace-gallery

Downey, Anthony. "If we fully engage with how generative AI works, we can still create original art." The Conversation, 19 March 2025. https://theconversation.com/if-we-fully-engage-with-how-generative-ai-works-we-can-still-create-original-art-251993

Kelly, Bryan. “Trevor Paglen: Cardinals’ Review: Is the Truth Out There?” (Pace Gallery exhibition review). Wall Street Journal, 8 August 2025. https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/fine-art/trevor-paglen-cardinals-review-is-the-truth-out-there-airdigital-f1d1039e

Paglen, Trevor. "'Thou shalt not make images—but what if AI does?'" Interview with Adnan Qiblawi. Document Journal, 17 April 2025. https://www.documentjournal.com/2025/04/thou-shalt-not-make-images-but-what-if-ai-does/

Raja, Akshay. "'Near Lichau Creek’ (undated) by Trevor Paglen” (Pace Gallery exhibition review). Financial Times, 28/29 June 2025: 19, illustrated.

“TREVOR PAGLEN: CARDINALS” (Pace Gallery exhibition review). EXIT Magazine, 4 August 2025. https://www.exitmagazine.co.uk/photography/trevor-paglen-cardinals

2024

Hernando, Silvia. “From secret CIA prisons to the images that train AI, Trevor Paglen looks where we cannot see.” El País, 9 February 2024. https://english.elpais.com/culture/2024-02-09/from-secret-cia-prisons-to-the-images-that-train-ai-trevor-paglen-looks-where-we-cannot-see.html.

Paglen, Trevor. “Trevor Paglen: In Full Bloom.” Musée, no. 24, accessed 7 July 2022.

Rappolt, Mark. “14th Shanghai Biennale Review: Stick to the Script.” Art Review, 14 February 2024. https://artreview.com/14th-shanghai-biennale-cosmos-cinema-review/

2023

“The Art Angle Presents: How the Intersection of Art, Design, and Technology Is Evolving.” Podcast, 00:42:22. Posted by Artnet News, 23 May 2023. https://news.artnet.com/multimedia/the-art-angle-presents-how-the-intersection-of-art-design-and-technology-is-evolving-2307928

Ballantyne-Way, Duncan. “Trevor Paglen: Turbocharged AI, computer vision and the truth about UFOS” (Neuer Berliner Kunstverein exhibition preview). Exberliner, 6 June 2023. https://www.exberliner.com/art/trevor-paglen-interview-neuer-berliner-kunstverein-berlin/

Boucher, Brian. “A New NFT and ‘Speculative Reality’ Puzzle from Artist Trevor Paglen Sends Users on a Dark, Mind Control-Themed Treasure Hunt” (Pace Gallery exhibition review). Artnet News, 12 May 2023. https://news.artnet.com/market/trevor-paglen-new-nft-project-cyclops-2300762

Creahan, D. “New York, Trevor Paglen: ‘You’ve Just Been F*cked by PSYOPS’ at Pace Gallery Through July 22nd, 2023” (exhibition review). Art Observed, 25 May 2023. http://artobserved.com/2023/05/new-york-trevor-paglen-youve-just-been-fcked-by-psyops-at-pace-gallery-through-july-22nd-2023/

Dafoe, Taylor. “Artist Trevor Paglen Sounds the Alarm on Our New Era of Psy-Ops Capitalism’ in a Reality-Testing Show at Pace Gallery” (exhibition review). Artnet News, 23 May 2023. https://news.artnet.com/art-world/trevor-paglen-psyops-pace-new-york-2307429

Gaskin, Sam. “Art World Predictions for the Year of the Rabbit.” Ocula, 27 January 2023. https://ocula.com/magazine/art-news/art-world-predictions-for-the-year-of-the-rabbit/

Katsikopoulou, Myrto. “From the Birth of the Web to the Rise of NFTs: Phaidon Book Delves into the Realms of Internet Art.” Designboom, 16 March 2023. https://www.designboom.com/art/phaidon-book-internet-art-web-nfts-03-16-2023/

Kunzru, Hari. “Disclosure.” Harper’s Magazine, 31 October 2023. https://harpers.org/archive/2023/11/disclosure/.

Lossin, R.H. “On Trevor Paglen’s Unstable Truths” (Pace Gallery exhibition review). E-Flux, 6 June 2023. https://www.e-flux.com/criticism/544198/on-trevor-paglen-s-unstable-truths

L'Univers san l'Homme (The Universe without Man). Fine Arts magazine special issue, 10 May 2023.

Paglen, Trevor. “Art, Surveillance & Investigation: Trevor Paglen & Eyal Weizman.” Interview with Eyal Weizman. Al Jazeera, 14 May 2023. https://www.aljazeera.com/program/studio-b-unscripted/2023/5/14/art-surveillance-investigation-trevor-paglen-eyal-weizman

Paglen, Trevor. “Trevor Paglen: In Full Bloom.” Musée, no. 24, accessed 7 July 2022. https://museemagazine.com/features/2022/7/7/from-our-archives-interview-with-trevor-paglen-in-full-bloom

Silverman, Erica. “Mark Bradford, Senga Nengudi, Uman, and More Must-See Shows in New York” (Pace Gallery exhibition review). Whitewall, 18 May 2023. https://whitewall.art/art/mark-bradford-senga-nengudi-uman-and-more-must-see-shows-in-new-york

Smith, Greg J. “Trevor Paglen Tells World ‘You’ve Just Been Fucked by PSYOPS’” (Pace Gallery exhibition review). HOLO / Stream, 12 May 2023. https://www.holo.mg/stream/paglen-wip/

Wiener, Max. “Exhibition Review: Trevor Paglen | Preludes” (Pace Verso exhibition review). Musée Magazine, 17 April 2023. https://museemagazine.com/culture/2023/4/12/exhibition-review-trevor-paglen-preludes

“Worldwide Exhibition Hit List: Art Openings May 2023” (Pace Gallery exhibition preview). Berlin Art Link, 1 May 2023. https://www.berlinartlink.com/2023/05/01/best-international-art-exhibition-openings-may-2023/

2022

Arn, Jackson. “God’s-Eye Views: Aerial Photography in the Southwest.” Art in America, 28 November 2022. https://www.artnews.com/art-in-america/features/aerial-photography-in-the-southwest-1234647575/

“Contemporary Photography Walk in Cheonsurim+, Landscape beyond reality: Trevor Paglen and Park Hyung-ryeol” (Pace Gallery exhibition review). CNB Journal (December 2022). https://weekly.cnbnews.com/news/article.html?no=147155

"Convergence of Engineering, Technology and Art"... Trevor Paglen's 'A Color Notation'" (Pace Gallery exhibition review). News1 (November 2022). https://www.news1.kr/articles/4861570

Fenstermaker, Will. “An Atlas of Invisible Images.” Social Research: An International Quarterly 89, No. 4 (Winter 2022): 1081–1104.

“Natural scenery viewed by artificial intelligence, 'Trevor Paglen Solo Exhibition' to be held at PACE Gallery from the 11th” (Pace Gallery exhibition review). K Spirit (November 2022). http://www.ikoreanspirit.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=69118

Paglen, Trevor. “Trevor Paglen: In Full Bloom.” Musée, no. 24, accessed 7 July 2022. https://museemagazine.com/features/2022/7/7/from-our-archives-interview-with-trevor-paglen-in-full-bloom

"'Portrait of Autumn' drawn by machines and humans together" (Pace Gallery exhibition review). Seoul Economic Daily (December 2022). https://www.sedaily.com/NewsView/26ERSUSJ9I

Ravindran, Manori. “Utopia Buys Participant Documentary ‘Unseen Skies’ on Evolution of Corporate Surveillance (EXCLUSIVE).” Variety, 30 August 2022. https://variety.com/2022/film/global/trevor-paglen-unseen-skies-us-release-utopia-1235354285/.

“Trevor Paglen's 'Seeing in Different Ways” (Pace Gallery exhibition review). WWD Korea (December 2022).

“Trevor Paglen Solo Exhibition 'A Color Notation'” (Pace Gallery exhibition review). Newsis (November 2022). https://newsis.com/view/?id=NISI20221108_0019441788

“View of the sky through the eyes of an autonomous vehicle” (Pace Gallery exhibition review). Mail Business Newspaper (November 2022). https://www.mk.co.kr/news/world/10542150

2021

Ch’ien, Letha. “Review: Art installation in San Jose sounds off on the ‘weirding of truth’ each day at noon” (San José Museum of Art installation review). San Francisco Chronicle Datebook, 24 November 2021. https://datebook.sfchronicle.com/art-exhibits/review-art-installation-in-san-jose-sounds-off-on-the-weirding-of-truth-each-day-at-noon.

D’Arcy, David. “Trevor Paglen warns about the dangers of Artificial Intelligence in new documentary

Unseen Skies.” The Art Newspaper, 3 May 2021. https://www.theartnewspaper.com/review/trevor-paglen-warns-about-the-dangers-of-artificial-intelligencein-new-documentary-unseen-skies

Enderby, Emma. “Skies, Clouds, Seas and Flowers. Trevor Paglen.” CURA Magazine, no. 36

(Spring/Summer 2021). https://curamagazine.com/digital/skies-clouds-seas-and-flowers-trevor-paglen/

Feinblatt, Rachel. “7 Spots to Gallery Hop This Weekend” (Pace Gallery exhibition preview). Modern

Luxury Hamptons Magazine, 10 June 2021. https://mlhamptons.com/hamptons-summer-art-galleries-to-visit

Gaskin, Sam. “Hockney Helps Hamptons Sales Start Summer Strong” (Pace Gallery exhibition review). Ocula Magazine, 2 June 2021. https://ocula.com/magazine/art-news/hockney-helps-hamptons-start-summer-strong/

Laster, Paul. “From The Parrish and The Church to Pace, Art-Hopping in the Hamptons” (Pace Gallery exhibition review). Whitehot Magazine (July 2021). https://whitehotmagazine.com/articles/art-hopping-in-the-hamptons/5050

Rea, Naomi. "A History of A.I. in Art, From Ancient Inca Data Systems to the New Battlefield of Algorithmic Bias” (Fondazione Prada exhibition review). Artnet News, 16 December 2021. https://news.artnet.com/art-world/artificial-intelligence-art-history-2045520.

Thaddeus-Johns, Josie. “The 10 Best Booths at Art Basel in Basel 2021.” Artsy, 22 September 2021. https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-10-best-booths-art-basel-basel-2021

Woodward, Richard B. “Trevor Paglen: A Thousand Flowers @ Pace East Hampton” (Pace Gallery exhibition review). Collector Daily, 23 June 2021. https://collectordaily.com/trevor-paglen-a-thousand-flowers-pace-east-hampton/

2020

“10 to See” (Pace Gallery exhibition preview). Aesthetica Magazine (August/ September 2020): illustrated, 20–23.

“136 progetti di riapertura.” Il Giornale Dell’Arte (May/June 2020): 6, illustrated.

Abel-Hirsch, Hannah. “Flowers are not what they seem in Trevor Paglen’s latest exhibition” (Pace Gallery exhibition review). British Journal of Photography, 5 October 2020. https://www.bjp-online.com/2020/10/flowers-are-not-what-they-seem-in-trevor-paglens-latest-exhibition/

“Bloom” (Pace Gallery exhibition review). Monopol (September 2020): illustrated. https://www.monopol-magazin.de/trevor-paglen-bloom?slide=0

Cami, Giulia. "'Unseen Stars' by Trevor Paglen at OGR, Turin." Kooness, 23 December 2020. https://www.kooness.com/posts/magazine/unseen-stars-by-trevor-paglen-at-ogr-turin

Chayka, Kyle. “Algorithms Can’t Automate Beauty” (Pace Gallery exhibition review). Art in America, 21 September 2020. https://www.artnews.com/art-in-america/aia-reviews/trevor-paglen-bloom-algorithms-beauty-1234571299/

“Computer Vision” (Pace Gallery exhibition review). Aesthetica Magazine, 7 September 2020. https://aestheticamagazine.com/computer-vision/

Creahan, D. "London – Trevor Paglen: Bloom at Pace through November 10th, 2020" (Pace Gallery exhibition review). Art Observed, 5 November 2020. http://artobserved.com/2020/11/london-trevor-paglen-bloom-at-pace-through-november-10th-2020/

Crossley, Alice. “The best virtual art exhibitions to see now” (Pace Gallery online exhibition review). Town & Country, 8 April 2020. https://www.townandcountrymag.com/uk/culture/arts/g32017518/best-virtual-art-exhibitions/

Delistraty, Cody. "Trevor Paglen Is Putting the Art in Artificial Intelligence" (Pace Gallery exhibition

preview). Wall Street Journal, 1 September 2020. https://www.wsj.com/articles/trevor-paglen-art-artificial-intelligence-interview-11598963246

Donoghue, Katy. “A Few Finds in Frieze New York’s Online Viewing Rooms.” Whitewall, 6 May 2020. https://www.whitewall.art/art/finds-frieze-new-yorks-online-viewing-rooms

E.C. "Trevor Paglen: Opposing Geometries" (Carnegie Museum of Art exhibition review). Air Mail (October 2020). https://airmail.news/arts-intel/events/trevor-paglen-opposing-geometries-3365

“Exhibition: Trevor at Pace Gallery London” (Pace Gallery exhibition review). CLOT Magazine, 28 August 2020. https://www.clotmag.com/news/exhibition-trevor-panglen-at-pace-gallery-london

Fontaine, Pearl. “Trevor Palgen’s ‘Bloom’ Shows the Wonders and Biases of AI” (Pace Gallery exhibition review). Whitewall, 17 September 2020. https://www.whitewall.art/art/trevor-paglens-bloom-shows-wonders-biases-ai

Franetovich, Alessandra. “Impossible Objects: A Conversation." E-Flux, November 2020. https://www.e-flux.com/journal/113/359928/impossible-objects-a-conversation/

Gaskin, Sam. “Textures of Life, Death, and Data in Trevor Paglen’s ‘Bloom’” (Pace Gallery exhibition review). Ocula, 25 September 2020. https://ocula.com/magazine/reports/trevor-paglen/

Goldstein, Caroline. “A New Exhibition Called ‘Art in the Age of Anxiety’ Captures How Freaked-Out We All Were Even Before Coronavirus.” Artnet News, 15 April 2020. https://news.artnet.com/exhibitions/sharjah-art-foundation-art-age-of-anxiety-1834941

Grey, Tobias. "In Bloom" (Pace Gallery exhibition review). Air Mail, 5 September 2020. https://airmail.news/issues/2020-9-5/in-bloom

Haigney, Sophie. “'Impossible Objects’ That Reveal a Hidden Power” (Pace Gallery exhibition review). The New York Times, 9 September 2020. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/09/arts/design/trevor-paglen-pittsburgh.html

Heathcote, Edwin. "How do machines see the world? Trevor Paglen on his AI art." Financial Times, 25 September 2020. https://www.ft.com/content/98b3c766-1b5a-4436-a62e-b40751a793eb

"How These Seven Artists Use Their Work to Call for Change.” Cultured, 29 June 2020. https://www.culturedmag.com/how-these-seven-artists-use-their-work-to-call-for-change/

Jacquet, Matthieu. "Trevor Paglen: espionnez en direct les visiteurs de sa nouvelle exposition” (Pace Gallery exhibition review). Numero, 21 September 2020. https://numero.com/fr/numero-art/trevor-paglen-pace-gallery-londres-intelligence-artificielle

Jhala, Kabir and Tom Seymour. “Three exhibitions to see in London this weekend” (Pace Gallery exhibition review). The Art Newspaper, 18 September 2020. https://www.theartnewspaper.com/review/three-exhibitions-london-jade-fadojutimi-trevor-paglen-elizabethprice

Jones, Jonathan. “Garden of evil: Trevor Paglen’s sinister digital paradise puts you in the picture.” The Guardian, 11 September 2020. https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2020/sep/11/garden-of-evil-trevor-paglen-pace-gallery-london

Judah, Hettie. “Pop-up space odyssey: how to do Frieze with no Frieze” (Pace Gallery exhibition review). The Guardian, 9 October 2020. https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2020/oct/09/frieze-art-fair-london-online

Liang Khong, En. "Trevor Paglen in Full Bloom" (Pace Gallery exhibition review). Art Review (September 2020): illustrated, 60–67.

Maida, Desiree. “Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes, la fotografia americana in mostra da Pace Gallery (sul sito!)” (Pace Gallery online exhibition review). Artribune, 26 April 2020. https://www.artribune.com/arti-visive/2020/04/pace-gallery-mostra-online-foto/

Maitland, Hayley. “7 Great Art Happenings to Visit Across London Now” (Pace Gallery exhibition review). Vogue UK, 10 October 2020. https://www.vogue.co.uk/arts-and-lifestyle/article/frieze-london-2020

Mirzayan, Anna. "Trevor Paglen's 'Opposing Geometries.'" (Carnegie Museum of Art exhibition review). Art Agenda Review, 6 October 2020. https://www.artagenda.com/features/352995/trevor-paglen-s-opposing-geometries

Paglen, Trevor. "How I became an artist: Trevor Paglen." Interview with Skye Sherwin. Art Basel, 2020. https://www.artbasel.com/stories/how-i-became-an-artist-trevor-paglen

Polonsky, Naomi. “A Beguiling Look at the Biases of AI” (Pace Gallery exhibition review). Hyperallergic, 25 September 2020. https://hyperallergic.com/590260/trevor-paglen-bloom-pace-london/

Rosenberg, Karen. "How Artists are Adapting to the Rise of Artificial Intelligence" (Pace Gallery exhibition review). Artful Jaunts, 4 November 2020. https://www.artfuljaunts.com/magazine/how-artists-are-adapting-to-the-rise-of-artificial-intelligence

Seymour, Tom. “Reap what we sow: Trevor Paglen’s new flower works take an allegorical view of AI” (Pace Gallery exhibition review). The Art Newspaper, 11 September 2020. https://www.theartnewspaper.com/preview/reap-what-we-sow-trevor-paglen-s-new-flower-works-take-anallegorical-

view-of-ai

Singer, Fanny. “Big Data’s Deal with the Devil” (de Young Museum exhibition review). Frieze, 12 May 2020. https://frieze.com/article/big-datas-deal-devil

“Sites to See: Pace Gallery." Harper’s Bazaar (September 2020): 109, illustrated.

Soar, Daniel. "At the Pace Gallery" (Pace Gallery exhibition review). London Review of Books, 19

November 2020. https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v42/n22/daniel-soar/at-the-pace-gallery

Sojit Pejcha, Camille. “Trevor Paglen Wants You to Stop Seeing Like a Human” (Pace Gallery exhibition review). Document Journal, 15 September 2020. https://www.documentjournal.com/2020/09/trevor-paglen-wants-you-to-stop-seeing-like-a-human/

Smith, Katie. “Bloom” (Pace Gallery exhibiton review). Photo Monitor, 18 November 2020. https://photomonitor.co.uk/exhibition/bloom/

“Trevor Paglen: 'I’d go outside and have this overwhelming sense of fear but at the same time I was watching nature explode” (Pace Gallery exhibition review). Phaidon, 21 September 2020. https://www.phaidon.com/agenda/art/articles/2020/september/21/trevor-paglen-i-d-go-outside-and-havethis-overwhelming-sense-of-fear-but-at-the-same-time-i-was-watching-nature-explode/

“Trevor Paglen in Conversation with Ben Vickers.” Photo London, 17 April 2020. https://photolondon.org/video/trevor-paglen-in-conversation-with-ben-vickers/

“Turbulent Decades” (Pace Gallery online exhibition review). Aesthetica, 16 May 2020. https://aestheticamagazine.com/turbulent-decades/

Quaranta, Domenico. “Perche Quei Fiori Hanno Perso Il Profumo? Lo Sguardo Della Macchina In Bloom, Di Trevor Paglen.” EX/POST (December 2020): 108–115, illustrated.

Westall, Mark. "Trevor Paglen Bloom" (Pace Gallery exhibition review). FAD Magazine, 7 September

2020. https://fadmagazine.com/2020/09/07/trevor-paglen-bloom/

Williams, Megan. “Trevor Paglen on AI, Surveillance and Art” (Pace Gallery exhibition review). Creative Review, 14 September 2020. https://www.creativereview.co.uk/trevor-paglen-art-ai-pace-exhibition/

2019

Barry, Robert. “A Politics of The Image: An Interview with Trevor Paglen” (Barbican Centre exhibition review). The Quietus, 12 October 2019. https://thequietus.com/articles/27272-trevor-paglen-from-apple-to-anomaly-barbican-interview

Basciani, Ariana. “How would a Latino be classified by an Artificial Intelligence system?” Al Día News, 8 October 2019. https://aldianews.com/articles/culture/how-would-latino-be-classified-artificial-intelligence-system/56545

Bourland, Ian. “#PHOTOGRAPHY2050: IAN BOURLAND” (Pace Gallery exhibition review). Halle 4, 6 May 2019. https://www.deichtorhallen.de/halle4/photography2050-ian-bourland

Clark, Tim. “Trevor Paglen: From ‘Apple’ to ‘Anomaly” (Barbican Centre exhibition review). British Journal of Photography, 10 October 2019. https://www.bjp-online.com/2019/10/trevor-paglen-barbican/

“Clouds– Trevor Paglen at Pace gallery Geneva (Pace Gallery exhibition review).” Black Qube, 10 October 2019. http://www.blackqube.de/trevor-paglen-at-pace-gallery-geneva/

"Cutting-Edge Artists Gathered in Cincinnati to Debate How Tech Is Changing Photography. What They Said Is Truly Terrifying." Artnet News, 10 October 2019. https://news.artnet.com/art-world/fotofocus-autoupdate-1675759

Guerry-Karamaounas, Nafsika. “Trevor Paglen chez Pace” (exhibition review). Art A Geneva, 26 September 2019. https://www.artageneve.com/article/trevor-paglen-chez-pace

Katzeff, Miriam. "Trevor Paglen and Kate Crawford, Imagenet Roulette." Artforum, (December 2019): 188, illustrated. https://www.standard.co.uk/go/london/arts/trevor-paglen-from-apple-to-anomaly-review-barbicana4263041.html

Knupp, Kristen. "Interview: Trevor Paglen and The Shape of Clouds" (Pace Geneva exhibition review). Art Decision, 1 October 2019. https://artdecision.eu/interview-trevor-paglen-and-the-shape-of-clouds/

Lempesis, Dimitris. "Art Cities: Geneva - Trevor Paglen" (Pace Gallery exhibition review). Dream Idea Machine, 4 September 2019. http://www.dreamideamachine.com/en/?p=50595

Luke, Ben. “Trevor Paglen: From Apple to Anomaly review – Avalanche of images offers unsettling insights into bias” (Barbican exhibition review). Evening Standard, 16 October 2019.

Metz, Cade. “Nerd,’ ‘Nonsmoker,’ ‘Wrongdoer’: How Might A.I. Label You?” The New York Times, 20 September 2019. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/20/arts/design/imagenet-trevor-paglen-ai-facial-recognition.html

“News-Trevor Paglen” (Pace Gallery exhibition review). Openlab, 2019. https://openlab.fm/news/trevor-paglen

O'Brien, Hettie. "Trevor Paglen: the artist who created ImageNet Roulette thinks AI is taking us backwards." New Statesman, 16 October 2019. https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/art-design/2019/10/trevor-paglen-artist-who-created-imagenetroulette-thinks-ai-taking-us

Paglen, Trevor. “Machine-Readable Images.” Art in America (October 2019): 22-24, illustrated.

Rea, Naomi. "How ImageNet Roulette, an Art Project That Went Viral by Exposing Facial Recognition’s Biases, Is Changing People’s Minds About AI." Artnet News, 23 September 2019. https://news.artnet.com/art-world/imagenet-roulette-trevor-paglen-kate-crawford-1658305

Ruiz, Cristina. “Leading online database to remove 600,000 images after art project reveals its racist bias.” The Art Newspaper, 23 September 2019. https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/trevor-paglen

Ruiz, Cristina. “Trevor Paglen on questioning the intelligence of AI” (Barbican Centre exhibition review). The Art Newspaper, 2 October 2019. https://www.theartnewspaper.com/feature/trevor-paglen-machine-visions

Takac, Balasz. “Trevor Paglen is Having a European Moment with Three Seminal Shows” (Pace Gallery exhibition review). Widewalls, 26 September 2019. https://www.widewalls.ch/trevor-paglen-barbican-pace-geneva-fondazione-prada/

Tarasoff, Sabrina. "Trevor Paglen, 'Sites Unseen'" (exhibition review). Flash Art 52, no. 326 (June–August 2019): 111, illustrated.

Yalcinkaya, Gunseli. “Viral AI selfie app gets thousands of racist images pulled from internet.” Dazed, 1 October 2019. https://www.dazeddigital.com/science-tech/article/46268/1/viral-ai-selfie-app-racist-images-pulled-trevorpaglan-imagenet

Zeiner-Henriksen, Eirik. “Invisible Images: Computer Vision, Algorithmic Images, and Machine Ontology in Trevor Paglen’s Adversarially Evolved Hallucinations." Master’s Thesis, University of Oslo, June 2019. https://www.duo.uio.no/bitstream/handle/10852/70476/Invisible-Images--Trevor-Paglen-s-Adversarially-Evolved-Hallucinations.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y

2018

Boucher, Brian. “Art World: ‘This Is the Project of a More Just World’: Trevor Paglen on Making Art That Shows Alternative Realities.” Artnet News, 11 June 2018. https://news.artnet.com/art-world/trevor-paglen-interview-1299836

Stoilas, Helen. "Trevor Paglen lets you view the world as the machines see it." The Art Newspaper, 20 June 2018. https://www.theartnewspaper.com/feature/trevor-paglen-machine-visions

2017

Hu, Caitlin. "A MacArthur "genius" unearthed the secret images that AI uses to make sense of us." Quartz, 22 October 2017. https://qz.com/1103545/macarthur-genius-trevor-paglen-reveals-what-ai-sees-in-the-human-world/

Saltz, Jerry, “Three-Sentence Reviews: Peter Saul’s Fake News, Trevor Paglen’s Zombie Conceptualism, and 7 More September Shows” (Pace Gallery exhibition review). Vulture, 19 September 2017. http://www.vulture.com/2017/09/three-sentence-reviews-peter-saul-trevor-paglen-and-7-more.html

Strecker, Alexander. "An Urgent Look at How Artificial Intelligence Will See the World" (Metro Pictures exhibition review). LensCulture, 2017.

2016

Paglen, Trevor. "Invisible Images (Your Pictures Are Looking at You)." The New Inquiry, 8 December 2016. https://thenewinquiry.com/invisible-images-your-pictures-are-looking-at-you/

2015

De Angelis, Emma. “Images Of the Invisible War: An Interview with Trevor Paglen.” The RUSI Journal, 23 December 2015: 78–83. https://rusi.tandfonline.com/doi/citedby/10.1080/03071847.2015.1124627?scroll=top&needAccess=true

Jobey, Liz. "Trevor Paglen: What lies beneath." The Financial Times, 31 December 2015. https://www.ft.com/content/beaf9936-a8ff-11e5-9700-2b669a5aeb83

Paglen, Trevor. “In Conversation: Trevor Paglen with Hunter Braithwaite.” Brooklyn Rail, 8 September 2015: 39–41, illustrated.

Sohn, Tim. "Trevor Paglen Plumbs the Internet." The New Yorker, 22 September 2015. https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/trevor-paglen-plumbs-the-internet-at-metropictures-gallery

2012

Weiner, Jonah. "Prying Eyes: Trevor Paglen makes art out of government secrets." The New Yorker, 22 October 2012. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/10/22/prying-eyes

2011

Paglen, Trevor. "Negative Dialectics in the Google Era: A Conversation with Trevor Paglen." Interview with Julian Stallabrass. October Magazine, (Fall 2011): 3–14, illustrated.

Books and Catalogues

Trevor Paglen Books

2025

Bleu profond, l’océan révélé (exhibition catalogue). Deauville, France and Paris: Les Franciscaines, Deauville; In Fine éditions d'art, 2025: 143, illustrated.

COSMOS (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Marc de Beyer, Marjolijn van Heemstra, Trienke van der Spek, and Rieke Vos. The Netherlands: Teylers Museum, 2025: 105–107, illustrated.

Guerri, Maurizio. Le parole della tecnica: Concetti, ideologie, prospettive. Turin, Italy: Giulio Einaudi editore, 2025: cover, illustrated.

2024

Access Kafka (exhibition catalogue). Berlin and Bielefeld, Germany: Jewish Museum Berlin; Kerber, 2024: 74–77, illustrated.

The Atlantic Ocean: Myths, Art, Science (exhibition catalogue). Texts by: Camilla Brattland, Stefanie Hessler, Melody Jue, Martin Olin, Patrik Steorn, Ove Stødle. Milan: Skira editore, 2024: 134–135, illustrated.

Clarke, Victoria, and Lynne Ciccaglione, eds. Tree: Exploring the Arboreal World. London: Phaidon, 2024: 25, illustrated.

Downey, Anthony. Trevor Paglen: adversarially evolved hallucinations. London: Sternberg Press, 2024.

Jhavari, Shanay, ed. Night Fever: Film and Photography After Dark. Text by Melissa Anderson, Erika Balsom, Ela Bittencourt, Ed Halter, Daniel Muzyczuk, et al. Cologne: Walther König, 2024.

Paglen, Trevor. Adversarially Evolved Hallucinations. Edited by Anthony Downey, London: Sternberg Press, 2024.

Petry, Michael. Mirror: The Reflective Surface in Contemporary Art. London: Thames & Hudson Ltd, 2024: 16–17, illustrated.

2023

An Infinite and Omnvorous Sky (exhibition catalogue). Normal, Illinois: University Galleries at Illinois State University, 2023: 96–99, illustrated.

Corps à corps: Histoire(s) de la photogrpahie (exhibition catalogue). Paris: Éditions du Centre Pompidou, 2023: 276–277, illustrated.

Forbes, Duncan, Newell Harbin, and Lydia Caston, eds. Fragile Beauty: Photographs from the Sir Elton John and David Furnish Collection (exhibition catalogue). London: V&A Publishing, 2024: 244, illustrated.

Gillham, Will, ed. Carter Handbook. Fort Worth, Texas: Amon Carter Museum of American Art, 2023: 293, illustrated.

I'll Be Your Mirror: Art and the Digital Screen (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Alison Hearst, Omar Kholeif, Tina Rivers Ryan, and John Suler. Fort Worth, Texas and New York: The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth; DelMonico Books/D.A.P., 2023.

Kholeif, Omar. INTERNET_ART: from the Birth of the Web to the Rise of NFTs. London: Phaidon Press, 2023.

Salto nel vuoto: Arte al di là della materia (exhibition catalogue). Edited by Lorenzo Giusti and Domenico Quaranta. Rome: Officina Libraria, 2023: 286, illustrated.

Trevor Paglen: You’ve Just Been Fucked by PSYOPS (artist’s book). Berlin: Trevor Paglen Studio, 2023.

2022

Jones, Christopher. Metadata: rethinking photography in the 21st century (exhibition catalogue). New York: Scala, 2022.

2021

Prodger, Phillip. Face Time: A History of the Photographic Portrait. London: Thames & Hudson, 2021: 77, illustrated.

2019

Boucher, Marie-Pier, Stefan Helmreich, Leila W. Kinney, Skylar Tibbits, Rebecca Uchill, and Evan Ziporyn, eds. Being Material. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press: 140–143, illustrated.

Eureka! Creativity in the Golden State California Artists at the Governor's Mansion (exhibition catalogue). Sacramento, California: Governor’s Mansion, 2019: 56–57, illustrated.

Trevor Paglen: Sites Unseen (exhibition catalogue). Texts by John P. Jacob and Luke Skrebowski. Washington D.C. and London: Smithsonian American Art Museum; GIlles, 2019.

2018

Art in the Age of the Internet, 1989 to Today (exhibition catalogue). Boston, Massachusetts and New Haven, Connecticut: Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; Yale University Press, 2018.

Everything Is Connected: Art and Conspiracy (exhibition catalogue). New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2018.

I Was Raised on the Internet (exhibition catalogue). Chicago and Munich: Museum of Contemporary Art; Prestel, 2018.

The Moon: From Inner Worlds to Outer Space (exhibition catalogue). Humlebæk, Denmark: Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 2018.

Paglen, Trevor, Julia Bryan-Wilson, and Omar Kholeif. Trevor Paglen. London: Phaidon Press, 2018.

Paglen, Trevor, and Manuela Moscoso. Trevor Paglen: Visiones De Maquina (exhibition catalogue). Mexico City: Fundación Olga y Rufino Tamayo, 2018.

The World to Come: Art in the Age of the Anthropocene (exhibition catalogue). Gainesville, Florida: Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainesville, 2018.

2017

Paglen, Trevor. From the Archives of Peter Merlin. New York: Primary Information, 2017.

2016

The Sun Placed in The Abyss (exhibition catalogue). Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio: Columbus Museum of Art, 2017.

2015

Paglen, Trevor, Jacob Appelbaum, and Russ Haus. Autonomy Cube. Berlin: Revolver Publishing, 2015.

Parikka, Jussi. A Geology of Media. Minneapolis, Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press, 2016.

Sebald Variations (exhibition catalogue). Barcelona: Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona, 2015.

2012

Paglen, Trevor. The Last Pictures. Texts by Anne Pasternak and Nato Thompson. New York and Berkeley: Creative Time Books; University of California Press, 2012.

2010

Paglen, Trevor. Blank Spots on the Map: The Secret Geography of the Pentagon’s Black World.

New York: Penguin Random House, 2009.

Paglen, Trevor, and Rebecca Solnit. Invisible: Covert Operations and Classified Landscapes. New York: Aperture, 2010.

Trevor Paglen: A Compendium of Secrets (exhibition catalogue). Bielefeld, Germany: Kerber, 2010.

Trevor Paglen: Visiting the Planetarium, Images of the Black World (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Brian Holmes, András Pálffy, and Jeanette Pacher. Vienna and Berlin: Secession, Vienna; Revolver Publishing, 2010.

2008

Paglen, Trevor. I Could Tell You But Then You Would Have to be Destroyed by Me: Emblems from

the Pentagon’s Black World. Brooklyn, New York: Melville House Publishing, 2008.

2006

Paglen, Trevor, and AC Thompson. Torture Taxi: On the Trail of the CIA’s Rendition Flights. Hoboken, New Jersey: Melville House Publishing, 2006.

Trevor Paglen

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Trevor Paglen is known for investigating the invisible through the visible, with a wide-reaching approach that spans image-making, sculpture, investigative journalism, writing, engineering, and numerous other disciplines.

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You've Just Been F*cked by PSYOPS

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A Color Notation

Hiding in Plain Sight

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Trevor Paglen in "The Irreplaceable Human" at the Louisiana Museum

Trevor Paglen's Known Unknowns

Trevor Paglen’s Abridged Guide to 'You’ve Just Been F*cked by PSYOPS'

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