Avery Singer

Place: New York

Born: 1987

Biography:

Avery Singer is an American artist born in 1987 in New York. She is known for creating digitally assisted paintings using 3D modeling software and computer-controlled airbrushing. Singer's work often involves using architectural, automation, and other modeling software to create the backdrop, then airbrushing layers of images using a computer-controlled printer designed for transferring logos on to trucks and aeroplanes. The images she uses are culled from Internet image searches based in genres and trends inherited from the history of art. Singer's earlier work primarily used a narrow palette of black, white, and grays, while her later work incorporates color. She has cited Charline von Heyl as a source of inspiration. Singer's paintings are in the public collections of the Museum Ludwig, Stedelijk Museum, The Whitney Museum, the Hammer Museum, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In 2017, her Google SketchUp–inspired Anxiety Painting (2014) became her first work to enter the collection of the Museum of Modern Art. Singer won the annual Prix Jean-François Prat in 2017. She is represented by Hauser & Wirth (since 2020) and Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler. From 2017 until 2020, she worked with Gavin Brown's Enterprise.