UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS:

HONG KONG: "Workers' Playtime." Solo Exhibition at DE SARTHE. Oct. 10 - Nov. 21, 2026.

MIAMI: Art Basel Miami Beach. Presented by Nguyen Wahed & DE SARTHE. Dec. 2026.

RECENT PRESS:

Essay in ARTFORUM Nov 2025 issue

RECENT LECTURES:

Origins of the Art Game. Recorded at the New Museum, New York for New Inc DEMO26.

Five Perfect Artworks. Recorded in Marfa, Texas.

RECENT EXHIBITIONS:

SHANGHAI: Westbund Art Fair. Presented by DE SARTHE. Nov. 13 - 16, 2025.

LONDON: Nguyen Wahed. Solo Exhibition. Sep. 23 - Oct. 10, 2025.

BUDAPEST: BINALÉ. Sep. 17 - Oct. 26, 2025

SEOUL: Frieze Seoul. Presented by DE SARTHE. September 3-6, 2025

NEW YORK: Nguyen Wahed: Solo exhibition. May 10 - 14, 2025

STEAM / ITCH.IO: Zantar and Other Stories coming soon

---

Works:

---

I am conceptual artist based in Toronto. I have been creating innovative new media installations and exhibiting them across the world since 2006. Many of them are about changing human sensibility in the age of technology. Some are about the ways that art's commodity form leaks into its expressive power.

I have been described by one critic as “committed to the most serious ideas of conceptualism in the most playful way possible,” and I agree with that.

My pioneering blockchain artwork Digital Zones of Immaterial Pictorial Sensibility, 2017, was recently exhibited in “Monte di Pietá” at the Fondazione Prada during the 60th Venice Biennale. My most recent project, The Zantar Triptych, is a series of real videogames set inside a fictional videogame economy. It premiered at Nguyen Wahed in New York City in 2025 and made its Asian debut at Frieze Seoul with de Sarthe Gallery.

I also co-founded a public art studio that creates large scale public artworks. You can see that here.

I have written for Artforum, Outland, Right Click Save, and The Pembroke Observer.