Pace Gallery is delighted to present its first exhibition of work by American artist Trevor Paglen. The exhibition will be held at Quai des Bergues, 15-17, from 4 September to 19 October 2019 and will explore Paglen’s central themes of computer intelligence, facial recognition technologies and alternative futures. The Shape of Clouds will coincide with Training Humans, an exhibition of works by Paglen and Kate Crawford presented at the Prada Foundation, Italy, from 12 September 2019 to 24 February 2020, and From “Apple” to “Anomaly”,Paglen’s exhibition staged at the Barbican’s Curve, London, from 26 September to 16 February 2020.
Trevor Paglen (b. 1974, Camp Springs, MD) is an artist whose work spans image making, sculpture, investigative journalism, writing, engineering, and numerous other disciplines. Among his chief concerns are learning how to see the historical moment we live in and developing the means to imagine alternative futures.
Paglen’s work has had one-person exhibitions at Vienna Secession, Eli & Edythe Broad Art Museum, Van Abbe Museum, Frankfurter Kunstverein, and Protocinema Istanbul, and participated in group exhibitions the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Tate Modern, and numerous other venues. He has launched an artwork into distant orbit around Earth in collaboration with Creative Time and MIT, contributed research and cinematography to the Academy Award-winning film Citizenfour, and created a radioactive public sculpture for the exclusion zone in Fukushima, Japan. He is the author of five books and numerous articles on subjects including experimental geography, state secrecy, military symbology, photography, and visuality. Paglen’s work has been profiled in the New York Times, Vice Magazine, the New Yorker, and Art Forum. In 2014, he received the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Pioneer Award for his work as a “groundbreaking investigative artist.” Paglen 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.
