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). Selected solo exhibitions have been held at MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge (2025); Kunsthall Trondheim (2025); California African American Museum, Los Angeles (2025); Pioneer Works, Brooklyn (2025); REDCAT, Los Angeles (2022); Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2020); Queens Museum (2019); and Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco (2019). Selected group exhibitions have been held at Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (2025); Centre d’art Contemporain Genève (2024); Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (2023); Museum of Modern Art, New York (2023); Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (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); and Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, New York (2017). American Artist is a recipient of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship (2026); Trellis Art Fund Milestone Grant (2024), Creative Capital Grant for Visual Artists (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); Red Bull Arts, Detroit (2020); ASSEMBLY, Brooklyn (2019); Abrons Art Center, New York (2019); Pioneer Works, Brooklyn (2018); Denniston Hill, Glen Wild (2018), and Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program, New York (2017).

American Artist’s work is in the collections of California African American Museum, Los Angeles; Kadist Art Foundation; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Marieluise Hessel Collection, Annandale-on-Hudson; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; University of Iowa Stanley Museum of Art; and Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.