Overview
- The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum named Paglen the 2026 recipient of the LG Guggenheim Award, which carries an unrestricted $100,000 prize.
- The honor is part of the five-year LG Guggenheim Art and Technology Initiative launched in 2023 to elevate artists working with technology.
- A five-person jury praised his research-driven practice for bringing public legibility to opaque technologies and for sustained engagement with urgent global concerns.
- Paglen’s work investigates surveillance systems, internet infrastructure, machine vision, and AI, a focus he has pursued in art for more than a decade.
- He follows past honorees Shu Lea Cheang, Stephanie Dinkins, and Ayoung Kim, and he plans to publish How to See Like a Machine: Images After AI this year.