Born in 1978 in Okemos, Michigan, Evan Roth earned a degree in Architecture from the University of Maryland, and an M.F.A. from the Design and Technology department at Parsons The New School for Design, where he graduated as class valedictorian. Roth worked at the Eyebeam OpenLab, an open source creative technology lab for the public domain as a Research and Development Fellow from 2005 to 2006 and was a Senior Fellow there from 2006 to 2007. Evan Roth co-founded the Graffiti Research Lab in 2005 and the Free Art and Technology Lab (FAT Lab), an arts and free culture collective, in 2007. He lives and works in Paris, France, where he relocated in 2010, attracted to the cheese and universal health care.
Roth’s work is in the collection of The Museum of Modern Art, New York; it has been exhibited widely in the Americas, Europe and Asia, including the Centre Pompidou and Fondation Cartier, Paris, the Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, and the Tate, London; and his work has occupied the front page of YouTube. He has received numerous awards, including the Golden Nica from Prix Ars Electronica, Rhizome/The New Museum commissions, the Future Everything Award, the inaugural Transmediale Open Web Award, the Design Museum London’s Designs of the Year, and the prestigious Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt National Design Award. This is the first major one-person presentation of the artist’s pioneering, multifaceted work in the US.