Avery Singer

(American, born 1987)

Avery Singer is a contemporary American artist known for the distinct digital style she employs in large-scale paintings. Singer’s process involves using 3-D rendering software to create images that are then airbrushed and painted onto canvas. “I want to make work that explores something that I haven’t seen in painting before,” the artist explained. “I guess it’s really a question of being generational—making art that belongs to your generation in some way.” Born in 1987 in New York, NY, she was the daughter of two artists. Singer went on to graduate from Cooper Union in 2010, where she dabbled in video and performance but spent most of her time in the woodshop teaching herself carpentry, bronze casting, and welding. After her graduation, she started to develop her own body of work, which led to her first show at Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler in 2013 during Berlin’s Gallery Weekend. This in turn began a steady stream of high-profile institutional shows, including solo outings at the Stedelijk Museum in the Netherlands and the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles. She was included in the 2015 New Museum Triennial, the 13th Biennale de Lyon, and the 2019 Venice Biennale. Singer joined the gallery Gavin Brown’s enterprise in 2016. In November 2018, her painting “Fellow Travelers, Flaming Creatures” (2013) sold at Sotheby’s for $735,000, more than six times its high estimate, heralding a new stage in the artist’s market. Singer continues to live and work in New York, NY.