JOAN TRUCKENBROD
USA, B.1945
Joan Truckenbrod is a digital artist beginning early 1970s. One of her programmed pen plotter drawings from 1975, is currently included in a group exhibition The World Through AI at Jeu de Paume in Paris. Recently her coded algorithmic drawings and textiles were included in the group exhibition Radical Software: Women, Art & Computing l960-1991 at Kunsthalle, Wien in Vienna, where it traveled from the Museum of Contemporary Art in Luxembourg, curated by Michelle Cotton. One of Truckenbrod’s programmed textiles was recently in the exhibition Electric Op at the AKG Buffalo Art Museum, curated by Tina Rivers Ryan. Two US exhibits highlighting early artwork created by programming computers, included her programmed drawings and textiles: Coded: Art Enters the Computer Age, 1952 - 1982 in 2023 at LACMA curated by Leslie Jones, and Programmed: Rules, Codes and Choreographies in Art at the Whitney in 2018, curated by Christiane Paul. Ms Truckenbrod’s artwork is in collections at the Whitney Museum of American Art, The Art Institute of Chicago, the AKG Buffalo Art Museum and the Victorian and Albert Museum in London. She is Professor Emerita in the Art and Technology Department at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Ms Truckenbrod’s artwork is represented by RCM Galerie in Paris.
