Avery Singer valuation
Builds her pictures in architectural software, then has them airbrushed on to canvas by computer.
Avery Singer was born in New York in 1987, studied at the Städelschule in Frankfurt in 2008 and took her BFA at Cooper Union in 2010, where she first came across SketchUp, the 3D modelling software used by architects.
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Bio
Avery Singer was born in New York in 1987, studied at the Städelschule in Frankfurt in 2008 and took her BFA at Cooper Union in 2010, where she first came across SketchUp, the 3D modelling software used by architects. She builds her compositions in software of this kind, then airbrushes them on to canvas with a computer-controlled printer originally designed to put logos on lorries and aeroplanes. The early paintings are grey, with blocky digital figures acting out scenes from the art world, and later work brings in colour. Hauser & Wirth has represented her since 2020.
The paintings are unique even though a machine lays down the paint, and they are often large. An airbrushed surface has no texture to hide a mark, so scuffs, fingerprints and damage at the edges show clearly and are hard to repair. Much of the work has passed through a small number of galleries, Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler in Berlin, Gavin Brown's Enterprise and Hauser & Wirth, and their invoices are the usual documentation. Title and date separate the early grey pictures from the later ones.
At a glance
- Born
- 1987, New York
Art Basel, the Hammer and the Stedelijk
At Art Basel in 2015 she showed a large installation in the Statements section, which now belongs to the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. She had a Hammer Projects show at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles from October 2015 to January 2016, and the Stedelijk's solo show in 2016, curated by Beatrix Ruf, was her first at a European museum. Anxiety Painting, of 2014, became her first work in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in 2017.
Best auction results
- Happening $5.25m
- Acrylic on canvas, 2014 · New York · 19 May 2022
- Publicly reported
- Untitled (Tuesday) $4.5m
- 2017 · Hong Kong · 1 December 2021
- Publicly reported
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