American Artist (b. 1989, Altadena; lives and works in New York) received an MFA from The New School (2015), and a BFA from California Polytechnic University, Pomona (2011). Solo exhibitions have been held at REDCAT, Los Angeles (2022); LABOR, Mexico City (2021); Commonwealth and Council, Los Angeles (2021); Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2020); Queens Museum (2019); Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco (2019); Koenig and Clinton, Brooklyn (2019); and HOUSING, New York (2018). Selected group exhibitions have been held at Centre d’art Contemporain Genève (2024); Guggenheim Museum (2023); Museum of Modern Art, New York (2023); Whitney Museum of American Art (2023); The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth (2023); Kunsthalle Basel (2021); San Jose Museum of Art (2020); Nam June Paik Art Center, Yongin (2020); MoMA PS1, Queens (2020); LC Queisser, Tbilisi (2019); The Studio Museum in Harlem (2019); Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit (2019); Performance Space New York (2018); Museum of Contemporary Art  Chicago (2018); 47 Canal, New York (2018); and Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, New York (2017). American Artist is a recipient of Trellis Art Fund grant (2024); Creative Capital Award (2022), LACMA Art + Technology Lab grant (2021), and Queens Museum Jerome Foundation Fellowship (2019). American Artist has participated in residencies at Smack Mellon, Brooklyn (2021); Whitney Museum Youth Insights Program, New York (2021); Red Bull Arts, Detroit (2020); ASSEMBLY, Brooklyn (2019); Abrons Art Center, New York (2019); PioneerWorks, Brooklyn (2018); and Denniston Hill, Glen Wild (2018).

American Artist’s work is in the collections of Kadist Art Foundation; Marieluise Hessel Collection, CCS Bard, Annandale-on-Hudson; Museum of Modern Art, New York; University of Iowa Stanley Museum of Art; and Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.