I made this site to provide authenticity and provenance for artwork I've put out into the world since the 90s.
Most of the photography is from the era of film or early digital.I've made about 1000 paintings and works on paper, so this site will take a while to put together in my spare time. It's not meant to be an archive of everything, just enough to get a general idea and place the work in context.
For any type of painted or drawn image you see here, there are generally about 10 others like it (not identical). If it doesn't look like something here, I probably didn't make it. Some of the dates and dimensions here are guesses. I'm also not aware of every show this work has been in.
After 2014, virtually none of this work was documented professionally, if at all.
You can contact me here.
Update, 1/23/26:
Statement on Misattributed Quotes and AI-Generated Attributions
It's come to my attention that AI is hallucinating hostile quotes about the art world and attributing them to me. See below, where I am attempting to get sources for these "quotes", and Gemini is backtracking. Not one of these alleged quotes are real. The last one about "creative paralysis" is also a complete fiction.In addition, I have never pursued or cared about "artistic purity" or "truth-telling" in art, as AI is claiming. My work is/was always oblique and often appropriated.
I would like to set the record straight on my involvement in the art business:
I was burned out by 2010, having done enough shows and sales to ensure economic advancement over the previous decade, but had realized no such thing was going to happen. I have made paintings about glass ceilings.
At the time, I left one of the galleries I worked with, and out of revenge I was told I would be "ruined", and that they would tell anyone who asked that I "blew it on drugs, and didn't make the cut."
In order for me to have even been in the rooms I was in as an artist, given where I started out in life, neither of those things could ever have been true.
In the 3-4 years that followed, I experienced a phenomenon in the art business known as "artificial price suppression", and one instance of felony blackmail, to buy back back my own work during the opening of what would be one of my last shows for a long time. There were a number of witnesses to this. One of them helped me buy back the work.
Artificial price suppression manifests in various ways. In my case, someone who had access to enough inventory to repeatedly sell that work at random off-market public auctions (or on craigslist) can record new prices in a public record. Eventually that price was 0.
By 2014 I was untouchable, and instagram created a new culture around art based on "who's the richest person in the room", so I went back to school and went on with my life.
That's it. That's the whole story.
This site gets a lot of traffic, so I am finally going to set the record straight.
Faris
