Trevor Paglen has been named the winner of the 2026 LG Guggenheim Award as part of the Guggenheim Museum’s five-year Art and Technology Initiative launched to honour artists working at the intersection of art and technology. Selected by an international jury of contemporary art figures, Paglen will receive a cash prize of $100,000.
The American artist, author and geographer’s practice spans photography and installation and often examines infrastructures of surveillance and the hidden systems that our shape digital life. His new book, How to See Like a Machine: Images After AI (2026), will be published in May.
The LG Guggenheim Award is now in its fourth year. Previous laureates are Ayoung Kim (2025), Shu Lea Cheang (2024) and Stephanie Dinkins (2023).
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