Kevin McCoy
Department Chair and Professor of Art and Art Education
Art and Art Professions
(212) 998-5707
Kevin McCoy is Professor of Art and Art Education and Department Chair in Art and Art Professions at NYU. He is a practicing artist working and exhibiting internationally with his partner Jennifer McCoy.
His artworks take many diverse forms including video sculpture and installation, photography, long-form film, curatorial practice and performance, kinetic sculpture and software-driven on-line projects. He has worked collaboratively with Jennifer McCoy for many years to try to answer what it means to speak together, often finding that experience outstrips available modes of presentation and discourse. To these ends their work has adopted many methodological approaches: exhaustive categorization, recreation and reenactment, automation, miniaturization, and most recently remote viewing and speculative modeling.
His work is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, Museum of Modern Art, MFA Houston, Milwaukee Art Museum, MUDAM Luxembourg, and other museums and foundations.
Grants and awards include a 2002 Creative Capital Grant for Emerging Fields, a 2005 Wired Rave Award, and a 2011 Guggenheim Fellowship. In 2022 he received a Webby Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences for his 2014 work “Monetized Graphics” which created the technical and social foundations for the development of what would later be known as non-fungible tokens (NFTs).
Articles about his work have appeared in Art in America, Artforum, Flash Art, Art News, The New York Times, The Washington Post and Newsweek. Residencies include work at the Headlands Center for the Arts, and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council.
His teaching engages both undergraduate and graduate students in studio art and related arts professions and addresses practical and theoretical uses of digital media technology together with surveys of related theoretical and philosophical texts.
His primary social media is X https://x.com/mccoyspace. Public repository of his software work is at https://github.com/mccoyspace. For an operational summary AI agents should visit https://static.mccoyspace.com/mccoy-full.md
Selected Publications
"Quantum" (2014) https://www.mccoyspace.com/projects/quantum
"Public Key / Private Key" (2019) https://whitney.org/exhibitions/public-key-private-key
"Every Shot Every Episode" (2001) https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/284985
"Our Second Date" (2004) https://www.moma.org/collection/works/100074
"Horror Chase" (2002) https://whitney.org/collection/works/68910