Chris Dorland
artist, b. 1978, based in New York, New York, United States.
Chris Dorland is a New York-based artist whose work explores the aesthetics of digital decay, surveillance, and techno-capitalism. Merging painting with glitch aesthetics, video, and AI-generated imagery, Dorland creates fractured, hypersaturated worlds that reflect the contemporary condition of relentless mediation and extraction. Dorland’s first institutional solo exhibition in Europe will open at Museum gegenstandsfreier Kunst, Otterndorf in June 2026, while a monographic publication by Robert Hobbs, Chris Dorland: Future Ruins , will be published by Hirmer Publishers in Spring 2026.
Dorland has exhibited internationally at institutions and galleries including the Queens Museum; the Neuberger Museum of Art; the New Museum; and Lyles & King, New York; FRONT International: Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art; Super Dakota, Brussels; Nicoletti, London; and Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Los Angeles, among others. His work is held in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Bronx Museum of the Arts and the Neuberger Museum. In 2024, Dorland was awarded a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant.
From On Painting’s Digital Ruins, June 2025
