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Dissecting Nature: Quint Contemporary Art

Dissecting Nature: Quint Contemporary Art

Roman de Salvo – Olive Branch Rorschach, 2008, olive wood, poplar, glue, hinge, 33 x 149 inches DISSECTING NATURE Birgir Andrésson, Adam Belt, Stephen Curry, Roman de Salvo, Andy Diaz Hope, Iran do Espírito Santo, Vernon Fisher, Maiko Haruki, Anya Gallaccio, Andy Goldsworthy, Roy McMakin, Lincoln Schatz and James Turrell OPENING RECEPTION January 14, 2012 [...]

KIN Global Summit: June 1-3, 2011

KIN Global Summit: June 1-3, 2011

Lincoln Schatz will be speaking and presenting his generative portrait work at the KIN Global Summit in Evanston, IL on June 2, 2011. Throughout the duration of the conference, an interactive generative portrait by Schatz will be installed to capture members of the Kellogg Innovation Network as they attend lectures and break out sessions.

Lincoln Schatz at Charles de Jonghe Gallery: Brussels

Lincoln Schatz at Charles de Jonghe Gallery: Brussels

Opening May 19, Lincoln Schatz shows new works from 2010-2011 at the Charles de Jonghe Gallery in Brussels, Belgium. The show runs through July 2, 2011.


Removing the Narrative from Portraiture

Removing the Narrative from Portraiture

Lincoln Schatz presents “Portraiture: Unraveling Time and Narrative” at the 16th annual American Art Conference “Turning Points” in New York City, May 20-21, 2011.

Portraiture as it Relates to Fashion

Portraiture as it Relates to Fashion

Lincoln Schatz presents “Moment to Moment: Portraits in Time” at the 12th Annual New York Fashion Conference “Vintage: Value, Values, and Enduring Design”. The conference takes place in New York City on December 2-4, 2010 and features presentations by Hamish Bowles, Hal Rubenstein, and Anna Sui.

Portrait of Water at Catharine Clark Gallery

Portrait of Water at Catharine Clark Gallery

Lincoln Schatz debuts his Portrait of Water at the Catharine Clark Gallery Media Room in San Francisco, CA. The exhibition runs November 20, 2010 – January 1, 2011, with a reception on November 20th from 5-7pm.


“Healthy Families, Safe Communities” in Washington, D.C.

“Healthy Families, Safe Communities” in Washington, D.C.

Lincoln Schatz  presents Cure Violence at the National Addiction Treatment and Prevention Conference “Healthy Families, Safe Communities”, sponsored by the Therapeutic Communities of America. The four-day conference takes place November 7-10, 2010 in Washington, D.C.

“Personal Identities/Contemporary Portraits” at Sonoma State University

“Personal Identities/Contemporary Portraits” at Sonoma State University

Lincoln Schatz is exhibiting two generative portraits in the show “Personal Identities/Contemporary Portraits” at the University Art Gallery at Sonoma State University in Rohnert Park, CA. The exhibition runs November 4 – December 12, 2010 and features works by Kehinde Wiley, Andy Warhol, Catherine Opie, and Chuck Close.

The Alaska Design Forum Presents UN/COMMON Lecture with Lincoln Schatz

The Alaska Design Forum Presents UN/COMMON Lecture with Lincoln Schatz

The Alaska Design Forum (ADF) is a non-profit organization of architects, artists, and designers formed to broaden the range of discussion of the design of the built environment. The core of the program is the annual lecture series. Each year, ADF presents between six and eight lectures – by nationally and internationally recognized architects, designers [...]


“A Giant Impact”: Chicago Teens Use Digital Media to Respond to Neighborhood Violence on MacArthur StudentSpeak Blog

“A Giant Impact”: Chicago Teens Use Digital Media to Respond to Neighborhood Violence on MacArthur StudentSpeak Blog

From MacArthur Foundation Spotlight on Digital Media and Learning: “Previously on StudentSpeak, we met Chicago teenagers who use social media to promote their weekly open-mic night at the YOUmedia digital space at Harold Washington Library. In these webisodes from Spotlight on Vimeo (episodes 10, 11 and 12), we check out how they’re using their digital [...]

Esquire’s Portrait of the 21st Century  featured in “Americans Now” at Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery

Esquire’s Portrait of the 21st Century featured in “Americans Now” at Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery

“Americans Now,” drawn from the National Portrait Gallery’s collection, features portraits of outstanding individuals in the realms of science, business, government and the arts. The exhibition opens Aug. 20 and will be on view through July 10, 2011. The show includes such familiar names as Erykah Badu, Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Tom Hanks, Tony Hawk, Jay-Z, [...]

National Portrait Gallery Acquires Esquire’s Portrait of the 21st Century

National Portrait Gallery Acquires Esquire’s Portrait of the 21st Century

The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery has selected Lincoln Schatz’s 2008 commission for Esquire magazine, Portrait of the 21st Century for inclusion in its collection. The series of nineteen portraits, which includes George Clooney, Jeff Bezos and LeBron James, will be on view beginning Aug. 20 in the exhibition “Americans Now” through 2011. Curators and historians [...]


Call to Action: An Intervention on Water at Archeworks

Call to Action: An Intervention on Water at Archeworks

Rick Valicenti of Moving Design has invited passionate, fearless, and brilliant designers to join forces inside the Archeworks Studio, coming together to advance powerful ideas in response to the glocal issues underscored in Archeworks’ Infrastructures for Change Conference. During 12 evening sessions over 5 weeks, we will convert design into tangible and real social currency. [...]

“Digital Art @Google: Data Poetics” at Chelsea Art Museum (CAM)

“Digital Art @Google: Data Poetics” at Chelsea Art Museum (CAM)

Google and The Project Room for New Media at Chelsea Art Museum (CAM) in New York are launching an exhibition program, Digital Art @Google NYC, which will engage Googlers with the art world and promote creativity with digital technology. “Data Poetics”, will open June 11 with works by well-known international digital artists, Scott Draves, R. [...]

Participatory Art and Portraiture at FOTOWEEK DC

Participatory Art and Portraiture at FOTOWEEK DC

In this unique opportunity, three internationally renowned photographers will present their work, giving an insider’s view of some of the most exciting photography being produced today. This is the first of two photographers talks organized by FotoWeek and Lucian Perkins. Each photographer will speak for about an hour. Liza Faktor, a Russian photographer and curator, [...]


“Mirror Mirror: Contemporary Portraits and the Fugitive Self” at Brigham Young University Museum of Art

“Mirror Mirror: Contemporary Portraits and the Fugitive Self” at Brigham Young University Museum of Art

Lincoln Schatz’s generative video artwork Branch is included in the exhibition “Mirror Mirror: Contemporary Portraits and the Fugitive Self”. With the advent of social networking sites, cell phones, and YouTube, how we portray ourselves is always transforming. This exhibition will explore how we shape our identities in an expanding global society and how living artists [...]

Lincoln Schatz and Amanda Geppert Present Cure Violence at PopTech 2009

Lincoln Schatz and Amanda Geppert Present Cure Violence at PopTech 2009

Having been invited to speak separately at PopTech’s 2008 conference, gun violence expert Gary Slutkin, founder of CeaseFire, and video artist Lincoln Schatz teamed up to collaborate on a participatory public art project that builds on existing local community relationships to create, train, and bring together non-violence advocates in a digital forum to impact social [...]

Civic Engagement at PICNIC ’09 Amsterdam

Civic Engagement at PICNIC ’09 Amsterdam

In times of peril and uncertainty, it is the creative and innovative minds that emerge as the leaders of change. PICNIC ’09 will cover major and minor challenges that lie ahead, from a critical but optimistic point of view. What are the great breakthroughs that will change our lives in the coming decade? How will [...]


eARTS BEYOND: Shanghai International Gallery Exhibition of Media Art

eARTS BEYOND: Shanghai International Gallery Exhibition of Media Art

eARTS BEYOND will inaugurate its first edition with an international gallery invitational exhibition titled “base target=new” presenting pioneering galleries in placing new media art at the forefront of the contemporary art scene. Lincoln Schatz’s work is presented at eARTS BEYOND by bitforms gallery nyc.

GOOD Inventions: Brain-Sharing by Lincoln Schatz

GOOD Inventions: Brain-Sharing by Lincoln Schatz

From GOOD: “As a cutting-edge video artist, Lincoln Schatz is familiar with the different ways in which we perceive the world. It is no surprise, then, that for our Inventions series, Schatz should invent a device that allows us to see the world through someone else’s mind, literally.”

Initiatives in Art and Culture: “Out of Control: When Artist and Celebrity Surrender to Chance”

Initiatives in Art and Culture: “Out of Control: When Artist and Celebrity Surrender to Chance”

Lincoln Schatz will give a talk entitled “Out of Control: When Artist and Celebrity Surrender to Chance” at the 14th Annual American Art Conference, “Celebrity in American Art, 1790-Present” hosted by Initiatives in Art and Culture.


First Public Exhibition of Esquire’s Portrait of the 21st Century at PULSE Art Fair Miami

First Public Exhibition of Esquire’s Portrait of the 21st Century at PULSE Art Fair Miami

Esquire’s Portrait of the 21st Century is a massive video art installation commissioned by the Hearst Corporation in celebration of Esquire magazine’s 75th anniversary. The installation includes generative portraits of Marc Jacobs, Samantha Power, Santiago Calatrava, LeBron James, George Clooney, David Chang, Jeff Bezos, Danger Mouse, Elon Musk, Ken Griffin, Noah Feldman, M.I.A., Jay Keasling, [...]

Updating Portraiture to Reflect Human Memory at PopTech

Updating Portraiture to Reflect Human Memory at PopTech

Lincoln Schatz will present one of his generative video portraits at PopTech as part of its Secrets & Lies segment on Saturday, October 25. Schatz will speak on updating portraiture from the static image to an interactive experience that uses technology to emulate the subjectivity and randomness of human memory. PopTech is a one-of-a-kind conference, [...]

Esquire Commissions Cube Portraits of Most Influential People of the 21st Century

Esquire Commissions Cube Portraits of Most Influential People of the 21st Century

Esquire magazine has commissioned Lincoln Schatz to do a series of Cube portraits of the most influential people of the 21st Century. This project, entitled Esquire’s Portrait of the 21st Century by Lincoln Schatz will span several months and include dozens of people. It is a companion piece for Esquire’s October 75th Anniversary issue, which [...]