Jennifer and Kevin McCoy are media artists whose works extends from film and video to installation and generative software. Their work often seeks to situate new technologies within our culture, using contemporary tools and questioning their impact both on the individual and on the collective culture. Recent work includes generative software that uses blockchain technology to create long-form ecosystems for images to change and evolve. The McCoys’ work has been widely exhibited at venues including the Pompidou Center, Paris; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; British Film Institute – Southbank, London; the Nevada Art Museum; The San Jose Museum of Art; The Addison Museum of American Art; The Sundance Film Festival, and many other venues in the US, Europe, and Asia. Their work is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; the Milwaukee Art Museum; the 21C Museum; and the Speed Museum. They received a Creative Capital award in 2003, the Wired Rave Award for Art in 2005, a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2011, and a Headlands Alumni Award in 2014. In 2022 Kevin received a Webby Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences for co-developing the technology that eventually became known as the NFT. Their work is represented by Postmasters Gallery in New York.
