Trevor Paglen

Dates

Born 1974, Camp Springs, Maryland

Lives and works in Berlin

Education

University of California at Berkeley, 2008 (PhD in Geography)

School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 2002 (M.F.A.)

University of California at Berkeley, 1996 (B.A.)

2020

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

2019

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

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, Museo Tamayo, Mexico City, June 28–September 30, 2018.

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, 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 the 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, 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, Netherlands, September 19, 2013– January 19, 2014.

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

Trevor Paglen, Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne, 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, England, October 6–November 4, 2012.

2011

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

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

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

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.

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

2009

Trevor Paglen, Bellwether Gallery, New York.

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

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

2008

Trevor Paglen: The Other Night Sky / MATRIX 225, Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive, University of California, Berkeley, 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.

2001

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

Trevor Paglen, Salina Art Center, Kansas.

2019

Kate Crawford | Trevor Paglen: Training Humans, Osservatorio Fondazione Prada, Milan.

Age of You, Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto.

New Order: Art and Technology in the Twenty-First Century, Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Beyond Truth: Photography After the Shutter, The Cleveland Museum of Art.

Moonlight – 50 Years of Photographing the Moon, Hasselblad Foundation, Göteborg, Sweden.

Entangled Realities: Living with Artificial Intelligence, Haus der elektronischen Künste Basel.

Here We Are Today, Bucerius Kunst Forum, Hamburg.

Vanitas Contemporary, H2 – Zentrum für Gegenwartskunst im Glaspalast, Augsburg, Germany.

Uncanny Values: Artificial Intelligence & You, Vienna Biennale for Change 2019, MAK – Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna.

Time, Forward!, V-A-C Zattere, Venice, Italy.

The Moon: From Inner Worlds to Outer Space, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Høvikodden, Norway.

The New Alphabet – Opening Days, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin.

2018

Nina Beier, Judith Hopf, John Miller, Trevor Paglen, Halsey McKey Gallery, East Hampton, New York.

Low Form. Imaginaries and Visions in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo, Rome.

The Value of Freedom, Belvedere 21, Vienna.

Everything is Connected: Art and Conspiracy, The Met Breuer, New York.

The World to Come: Art in the Age of the Anthropocene, Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainesville. Traveled to: University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor.

Im Zweifel für den Zweifel, NRW Forum Wirtschaft und Kultur, Düsseldorf, Germany.

[Control] No Control, 7th Triennale der Photographie Hamburg, Hamburger Kunsthalle.

The Planetary Garden, Manifesta 12, Palazzo Ajutamicristo, Palermo.

Walls Turned Sideways, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston.

Expanding Narratives, Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago.

Extra States: Nations in Liquidation, Kunsthal Extra City, Antwerp.

Nothing Will Be As Before, Tanya Leighton, Berlin.

Julieta Aranda: Ghost Nets, Galería OMR, Mexico City.

Artes Mundi 8, National Museum Cardiff, Wales.

I Was Raised on the Internet, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago.

I am here to learn: On Machinic Interpretations of the World, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt.

Faithless Pictures, The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo.

Art in the Age of the Internet, 1989 to Today, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston.

Nothing Stable Under Heaven, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

When Facts Don’t Matter, Lismore Castle Arts, Waterford, Ireland.

23rd Photobiennale: Capital Realism, Museum of Photography Thessaloniki, Greece.

Ansel Adams in Our Time, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

2017

Galileo e le Arti, Palazzo del Monte di Pietá, Italy.

Illegal, Luggage Store Gallery, San Francisco.

The Electric Comma, V-A-C Foundation, Palazzo delle Zattere, Venice.

Aesthetic of the Virtual, Collection Falkenberg, Hamburg.

Age of Terror: Art since 9/11, Imperial War Museum, London.

Science Fiction, Onassis Cultural Center, Athens.

Stars: Cosmic art from 1900 to today, Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz, Austria.

Escaping the Digital Unease!, Kunsthaus Langenthal, Switzerland.

Sterne, Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz, Austria.

Time as Landscape, Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Rollins College, Winter Park, Florida.

The Image of War, Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm.

Spectacle & Scaffolding: Contemporary Photography Muses Hierarchy, Turchin Center for the

Visual Arts, Appalachian State University, Boone, North Carolina.

Sunset Décor, Marian Goodman, New York.

A New Ballardian Vision, Metro Pictures, New York.

No Secrets!, ERES Foundation, Munich.

Dizziness, Navigating the Unknown, Kunsthaus Graz, Austria. Traveled to: Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw.

Scenographies of Power, La Casa Encendida, Madrid.

WATCHED! Surveillance, Art & Photography, C/O Berlin.

Polyphonic Worlds: Justice as Medium, Contour Biennale 8, Nona Arts Centre, Mechelen, Belgium.

Please Come Back. The World As Prison?, Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo, Rome.

From Counterculture to Cyberculture, Altman Siegel, San Francisco.

Into the Unknown: A Journey through Science Fiction, The Curve, Barbican Centre, London.

Nothing to Hide? Art, Surveillance, and Privacy, Real Art Ways, Hartford, Connecticut.

2016

The Sun Placed in the Abyss, Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio.

Watching the Earth from the Universe, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo.

All Power to the People: Black Panthers at 50!, Oakland Museum of California, California.

Will and Be Going To, Altman Siegel, San Francisco.

Home Land Security, Fort Winfield Scott at Langdon Court, Golden Gate National Recreation Area, San Francisco.

The Distance of a Day: New in Contemporary Art, Israel Museum, Jerusalem.

California and the West: Photography from the Campaign for Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

The Eight Climate: What Does Art Do,” 11th Gwangju Biennale, South Korea.

Global Control and Censorship, The ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, Germany.

Digital Archives, Kunstverein Hannover, Germany.

Social Ecologies, Rail Curatorial Projects at Industry City, Brooklyn.

Political Populism, Kunsthalle Wien Museumsquartier, Vienna.

Electronic Superhighway (2016-1966), Whitechapel Gallery, London. Traveled to: Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology, Lisbon.

Radical Landscapes, The di Rosa Museum, Napa, California.

To See Without Being Seen: Contemporary Art and Drone Warfare, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri.

2015

Time/Image, Blaffer Art Museum, University of Houston.

Trevor Paglen and Jacob Appelbaum: Autonomy Cube, Edith-Russ-Haus for Media Art, Oldenburg, Germany. (catalogue)

Artists at Work, Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University, California.

Covert Operations: Investigating the Known Unknowns, San Jose Museum of Art, California.

Under the Clouds: From Paranoia to the Digital Sublime, Museu de Arte Contemporânea, Porto, Portugal.

Necessary Force: Art in the Police State, University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque.

Sebald Variations, Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona.

Art in the Age of…, Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, Netherlands.

Panopticon: Visibility, Data, and the Monitoring Gaze, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Salt

Lake City.

Eppur Si Muove: Art et Technique, Un Espace Partagé, Grand Duke Jean Museum of Modern Art, Luxembourg City.

Cosmosis, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago.

2014

Un saber realmente útil, Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid.

They Used to Call it the Moon, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Newcastle, United Kingdom.

Covert Operations: Investigating the Known Unknowns, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Arizona.

Fractured Narratives: A Strategy to Engage, Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Rollins College, Winter Park, Florida.

The Last Pictures, Photomonth Festival, Krakow, Poland.

Gorgeous, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco.

Smart New World, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf.

#1: Cartagena Biennial, Cartagena de Indias, Colombia.

CounterIntellegence, Justina M. Barnicke Gallery Hart House, University of Toronto.

2013

Quiet Earth, presented by Ballroom Marfa, Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, New York.

Visibility Machines: Harun Farocki and Trevor Paglen, Center for Art Design & Visual Culture, Baltimore. Traveled to: Akademie der kunste, Berlin; Gallery 400, University of Illinois, Chicago; Gund Gallery, Kenyon College, Ohio. (catalogue)

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

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

Surveying the Terrain, Contemporary Art Museum of Raleigh, North Carolina.

Dissident Futures, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco.

Weather Permitting, 9th Bienal do Mercosul, Porto Alegre, Brazil.

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

On Watching and Being Seen, Northern Illinois University Art Museum, DeKalb, Illinois.

A Democracy of Images: Photographs from the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

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

A Different Kind of Order: The ICP Triennial, International Center of Photography, New York.

2012

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

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

Image Counter Image, Haus der Kunst, Munich.

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

The Unexpected Guest, Liverpool Biennial, United Kingdom.

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

Ministry of Truth, Boers-Li Gallery, Beijing.

Object Fictions, James Cohan Gallery, New York.

2011

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

Architecture of Fear, Z33, Hasselt, Belgium.

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

Details, Bergen Kunsthall, Norway.

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

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

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

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

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

The Spectacle of War, The Empty Quarter, Dubai.

Secret Satellites, Belfast Exposed, Ireland.

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

Magical Consciousness, Arnolfini, Bristol, United Kingdom.

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

After the Crash, Universitá delle Marche, Rome.

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

2010

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

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

Free, The New Museum, New York.

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

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

Road to Nowhere, FotoFest 2010 Biennial, Houston.

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

Disappeared, Goff and Rosenthal, New York.

California Invitational, Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego.

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

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

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

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

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

2009

10th Havana Biennial Art Exhibition, Cuba.

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

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

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

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

Schneider Museum of Art, Southern Oregon University, Ashland.

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

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

Universal Code, The Power Plant, Toronto.

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

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

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

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

2008

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

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

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

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

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.

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

2008 Taipei Biennial, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan.

2007

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

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

Ominous Atmosphere, Heather Marx Gallery, San Francisco.

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

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

2006

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

Dataesthetics Reloaded, Galerija Nova, Zagreb, Croatia.

Dystopische Landschaft, Kunstraum Muenchen, Munich.

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

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

2005

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

2004

Echo Local, Gallery 400, Chicago.

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

2003

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

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

Version 3, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago.

2002

Plug and Play, Artswatch, Louisville, Kentucky.

Version 2.0, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago.

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

2001

The Summer Show, Gallery 312, Chicago.

Resynthesis, Betty Rymer Gallery, Chicago.

Book Show, Temporary Services, Chicago.

2000

Counter Productive Industries, 1926 Gallery, Chicago.

Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Ohio

Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas

Baltimore Museum of Art, Maryland

Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, California

Carl & Marilynn Thoma Art Foundation, Santa Fe, New Mexico and Chicago, Illinois

Cleveland Clinic Collection, 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, Dunkirk, France

Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle

Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Massachusetts

Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts 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

Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, Canada

Musée d'art moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg City

Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, California

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts

The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas

Museum of Modern Art, New York Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia

The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri

Nevada Museum of Art, Reno

The New School’s Art Collection, New York

Oakland Museum of 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, California

Santa Barbara Museum of Art, California

Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York

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

Victoria and Albert Museum, London, United Kingdom

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York