2024–present / OpenAI
Artist Program
Selected for the 2026 cohort after the 2024 Sora alpha. Early access to image, video and Codex tools, with feedback to the teams building them.
Concept / role / outcome

2026 / Independent project
A satirical travel agency with carefully considered, ill-advised trips.
My role: Concept, brand voice and website
A working brand that accepts real trip inquiries.

2025 / San Francisco Art Fair
Four days playing an overwhelmed gallerist, with my actual gallerist as my assistant.
My role: Creator and performer
The paintings sold out. Covered by The Art Newspaper.

2025 / Atlanta Art Fair
Nine portraits, each two inches wide, in a booth four feet wide. I sold the work myself.
My role: Concept, paintings and performance
All nine paintings sold on opening night.

2006 / Nissan · TBWA\Chiat\Day
A week in a Sentra became films, blog posts, YouTube videos and staged public events.
My role: Creative development, content production and talent
The centerpiece of a $55 million TV and web campaign.

2008 / Sony
Nineteen cities, one very long autograph. An original series funded by Sony.
My role: Pitch, concept, production and hosting
Projects made with people at every stop, with my own production crew.

2024 / LUMINEX 3.0 · Los Angeles
Three minutes to make, package and serve a sculpture through a window, or a powerful fan hits the room.
My role: Creator and performer
Created for LUMINEX 3.0. The video was presented at de boer gallery.
2024–present / OpenAI
Selected for the 2026 cohort after the 2024 Sora alpha. Early access to image, video and Codex tools, with feedback to the teams building them.
2025 / Verse
130 hybrid digital paintings, released with a new sale format: collectors made offers and I chose who got each work, not necessarily the highest bidder.
2023–24 / Nouns DAO
An animated short I wrote, directed and produced, funded by a 50 ETH community grant and released on Zora. Official Selection, Aesthetica Short Film Festival.
2014 / Film
Director and screenwriter. Official Selection, Slamdance Film Festival.
I gave my life’s work a phone number. Nearly thirty years of paintings, performances, videos and writing. Pick a project and call to hear the story, narrated by an AI clone of my voice. A studio visit, without the studio.
2017–presentOne of the first episodic video series released as NFTs: darkly comic one-minute episodes.
2022–23I drove across America with a friend. Neither of us left home.
2009 / with Peter BaldesI put my number in a catalog. 30,000 people called.
2004–05I tried to bail out a bank. With paintings.
2008Three months live, 24/7.
2008–09For a month, thousands of strangers online made my decisions.
2010 / Creative Time1,000 drawings against four industrial fans.
2022 / de boer galleryEverything pairs with McDonald’s
2015 / NERO EditionsI couldn’t afford health insurance. So I made armor.
2007 / The Center for Improved LivingI spent seven weeks running a live talk show inside London’s Hayward Gallery.
2008 / Hayward Gallery, London