Trevor Paglen wins $100,000 LG Guggenheim Award

Conceptual artist Trevor Paglen has been named the recipient of the 2026 LG Guggenheim Award, an honor that includes a $100,000 prize from LG and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York. Based in New York, Paglen is known for work across photography, writing, digital art, and sculpture that examines surveillance, communications infrastructure, and machine imaging. He will present a hybrid lecture-performance titled “The Lizard People Are Here!” at the Guggenheim on 18 May 2026, and his book “How to See Like a Machine: Images After AI” will be published by Verso on 19 May. The LG Guggenheim Art and Technology Initiative began in 2022 as a five-year collaboration, with past awardees including Stephanie Dinkins (2023), Shu Lea Cheang (2024), and Ayoung Kim (2025).

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