about the exhibition
International Artist-In-Residence
New Works 13.2
Trevor Paglen
July 11–September 15, 2013
Space exploration, secret military operations, journalism, cryptography-Trevor Paglen’s work is inspired by his multi-disciplinary exploration of new ways to interpret our world. In a 2010 commission for Creative Time, Last Pictures, Paglen chose 100 photographs to be micro-etched onto an archival silicon disc and affixed to the exterior of a communications satellite orbiting Earth. His work has been included in exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; The Tate Modern, London; The Walker Arts Center, Minneapolis; The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the 2008 Taipei Biennial; the 2009 Istanbul Biennial; the 2012 Liverpool Biennial, and numerous other solo and group exhibitions. Paglen is the author of 5 books and holds a B.A. from U.C. Berkeley, an MFA from the Art Institute of Chicago, and a Ph.D. in Geography from U.C. Berkeley. He currently lives and works in New York.