Born USA, 1978
Evan Roth is an American artist based in Paris whose work explores the relationship between misuse and empowerment. Creating prints, sculptures, videos and websites, the work is defined less by medium and genre than by its appropriation of popular culture. Roth's work is informed by the misuse of seemingly rigid structures and the effect that philosophies from hacker communities can have when applied to non-digital systems.
Roth's work is in the permanent collection of the
Museum of Modern Art NYC and has been exhibited at various institutions, including the Centre Pompidou, the Kunsthalle Wien, the Tate and the front page of Youtube. He has received numerous awards, including the Golden Nica from Prix Ars Electronica, Rhizome/The New Museum commissions and the
Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt National Design Award.
Roth is also co-founder of the
Graffiti Research Lab and the
Free Art & Technology Lab (F.A.T. Lab), a web based, open source research and development lab.
To find Roth's work online, just google "
bad ass mother fucker".
Evan is represented by
Gallery Niklas Belenius in Stockholm.
Contact: info(at)evan-roth.com
Twitter:
@EvanRoth_
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Selected press and interviews:
New York Times: Evan Roth, an Award-Winning Man of Many Tags
The Guardian: Evan Roth: the badass artist hacking popular culture
Juxtapose Magazine interview
BBC: Hacker artist takes over internet cafe for speed show
New York Times: High-Tech Graffiti: Spray Paint Is So 20th Century
Liberation (in French)
PBS ART:21 interview
