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International Business Machines↴
International Business Machines (working title) is the first mid-career survey of contemporary artist Cory Arcangel (1978, Buffalo, New York). Aimed at the broadest possible audience, International Business Machines will feature 30 years of the artist’s work in popular culture and technology and will be centered around several of the artist’s (now) canonical immersive video installations such as Super Mario Clouds (2002), I Shot Andy Warhol (2003), Working on My Novel (2009), Adobe Photoshop Gradients (2007-ongoing), and /roʊˈdeɪoʊ/ Let's Play: HOLLYWOOD, 2017-2021. The show will also feature the debut of a major new body of work focusing on the rapid advancements and limitations of Artificial Intelligence.
Dates↴
2029+
Venues↴
The exhibition will take place in one institution in America and one institution in Scandinavia, in parallel with virtual venues such as coryarcangel.com, https://are.na, Rhizome.org (TBC), EooS, Youtube, Bandcamp, Twitter, and Instagram. Beyond the two co-producing venues, the exhibition could potentially tour to other institutions in the United States, Europe, and Asia. The presentation will include work that is present in US and European collections and therefore can be tailored to each venue with different editions used for loans.
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In a modern world covered in screens, awash in alerts, and soon to be eaten by AI, now is the time to reflect on what the hell is going on. Positioned to address the “now” more than any artist of his generation, Arcangel has explored the potential and failures of old and new digital technologies, highlighting their obsolescence, humor, aesthetic attributes and eerie influence in contemporary life. In its approach, International Business Machines could introduce the public to an entirely new model of what such a retrospective can look like. Unlike so many traditional exhibitions, this survey has the potential to span physical galleries, virtual sites, and concert venues. Inside the museum walls, Arcangel’s pioneering videos and video game installations can be tailored to each space, creating multi-sensory, immersive, and sometimes interactive installations for viewers to experience alongside other seminal works such as Arcangel’s Gradient series. Lastly, Arcangel — having spent the past 25 years publishing, and performing his work online — can expand upon each artwork on each museum’s social media and websites in addition to his own and partnerships with other web platforms, appealing to both the museum audience as well as his own a broad multi-generational global audience.
About Cory Arcangel↴
Cory Arcangel (born 1978, Buffalo, NY) is an artist living and working in Stavanger, Norway for the past decade. Since 2000, he has been profiled in multiple publications including The New Yorker, New York Magazine, Interview Magazine, and the Guardian as well as been the subject of over 20 institutional exhibitions including Stavanger Art Museum, Stavanger, Norway (2026); MGK Siegen, Siegen, Germany (2025); Michel Majerus Estate, Berlin, Germany (2024); Kunstverein Hamburg, Germany (2022), CC Foundation, Shanghai (2019), “Galleria d‘Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Bergamo (2015), Reykjavik Art Museum, Reykjavik (2015), Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh (2012–13), the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2011), Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin (2010–11) and Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zürich (2005).
Sample Checklist (ish 😉)↴

Are.na mood board↴

Credits↴
Organizer: Cory Arcangel, and Arcangel Studio
Press: TBC
Legal: Crown Law
Institutional assistance: Rhizome.org (TBC), Canyon Media Art Conservation Center (TBC), and Electronic Arts Intermix (TBC)
Gallery support: Lisson Gallery, and Thaddaeus Ropac Gallery (TBC)
Loans (all TBC): the Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, NY, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA, Centre Geroges Pompidou, Paris, France, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zürich, Switzerland, Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami, Miami, FL, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany, Smithsonian Museum of American Art, Washington D.C., Tate, London, UK, Thoma Foundation, Santa Fe, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Version: 4, March 14, 2026