20 Years of AI Painting

Two Decades of AI Art

Two Decades of AI Art

Reflection - Painting created layer by layer by synthetically creative system

emergence

A Collaboration with the Past, Present, and Future
Artonomous - Autonomous paintings with blue and beige hues, suggesting a distorted face.

Augmented Intelligence - Christie’s - New York - 2025
Reflection - Coming to Dallas October 2025
Art of the Punk - Museum of Linz - Austria - 2025

BrightMoments Venice - 2024
NFT Paris - Reflection - 2024
DEEEP PARIS - 2024

LACMA Permanent Collection - 2023
Time Magazine : Inside the Studio with an AI Painting Robot
BrightMoments Tokyo - 2023
DEEEP Miami - 2023

Sotheby’s Natively Digital 1.3 - 2022
NVIDIA AI Art Gallery - 2022
DEEEP London - 2022

ArtBasel Miami - SuperRare Monolith - 2021
NVIDIA AI ART GALLERY - 2021

Neural Networks

Gemma : Colorful GAN generated painting of a woman's face with green eyes and flowing hair
Turing Test - AI painting with colorful brush strokes and drips
AI Imagined Face - Robot painted face with textured, paint-dripped effect.
Hunter: Abstract portrait painting created with neural nets showing bold brushstrokes and earthy colors.

NeurIPS AI Art Gallery 2020 - artonomous - 2020
Art(ificial) Intelligence - NVIDIA AI - 2020
Machine, The Art of intelligence - 2020

Art of the Machine - Group Show - London - 2019
NeurIPS AI Art Gallery - Gemma - 2019
Speciesism - Group Show - New York - 2019

Scientific American : Can AIs Create True Art? - 2018
CNN : Last Look: Can Robots Make Art? - 2018
BBC Click : Can Artificial Intelligence Create Art? - 2018
Robot Art 2018 - First Place Prize - 2018
out of office - Museum der Arbeit, Hamburg - 2018
NeurIPS AI Art Gallery - Bonnie - 2018
Tysons: Then and Now - Solo Exhibition - Tysons Corner - 2018
Aspen AI Conference - Berlin - 2018
MBN Y Forum 2018 - Seoul - 2018

HBO Vice : The da Vinci Coder - 2017
IROS 2017 : Towards and Artist in the Lab - 2017
CISR 2017 : Oak Ridge National Labs - 2017
Elastic Cause Award - Shortlist - 2017
Microsoft Surface Innov8r - 2017
NVIDIA GTC 2017 - Keynote Feature - 2017

CBS : Robot Uses Artificial Intelligence to Make Art - 2016
Professional Artist Magazine : The Robot in Your Studio - 2016
TEDx Talk - Teaching Creativity to Robots - 2016
RobotArt 2016 - Second Place Prize - 2016

Feedback Loops

Bonnie and Corinne - Robot painting created with visual feedback loops.
Crowdsourced painting of Abraham Lincoln.

NPR You Can Give A Robot A Paintbrush, But Does It Create Art? - 2015
TechTimes : How a Cyber Attack Became Art - 2015

Google Made w/ Code - New York - 2014
Barbican's Dev Art Competition - Shortlist - 2014


cloudpainter.com - live interactive crowd painting performance - 2013

Form Follows Software - Group Show - Arizona State University - 2012

Genesis

Early Robot Painting created with agentic AI.
Early robot painted abstract portrait of a woman, composed of four panels in shades of blue and beige.
Van Arman's first robot paintings of his newly born son.

Gallery One - The Corcoran - Washington DC - 2010
Kids Collaborate with Robot Artists - The Cartoon Network - 2010
Beyond Warhol in the 21st Century - BAG Gallery - New York - 2010

FLUX 09 - Group Show - Wash DC - 2009
The 12"x12" Exhibit - Group Show - Washington DC - 2009
Robot Fest 09 - National Electronics Museum - 2009

DC Freshly Squeezed - Group Show - Washington DC - 2008
Ofrenda, Art of the Dead - Group Show - Washington DC - 2008
FLIK International Film Festival - Washington DC - 2008
The Creative Process of Artist Groups - Gallery RFD - 2008

Gonzaga - Permanent Alumni Collection - 2007
Art Movements Past and Present - Gallery RFD - Juror's Choice Award
St Thomas  - Solo Exhibition - Washington DC - 2007
Splash Contemporary Art - Ashbury Park - 2007
The Gallaerie - Solo Exhibition - Washington DC - 2007