Using primarily sculpture, video, installation, digital media and writing in their practice, American Artist (Altadena, CA 1989) formulates thought experiments related to race and visibility, a sense of identity and community within our networked societies, history of technology, knowledge production and surveillance capitalism.
By changing their legal name in 2013,
American Artist challenged the established white male canon imposed by Western Art History and they made themselves hard to trace while simultaneously gaining hyper-visibility, and claiming their place within a context and a definition from which Afro-diasporic artists have long been excluded.
