Dmitri Cherniak
About
Biography
Dmitri Cherniak is a Canadian-American artist born in Toronto who lives and works in New York.
He created Ringers (2021) and developed Light Years (2022) in partnership with the Estate of László Moholy-Nagy. His work is held in the collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Buffalo AKG Art Museum, and ZKM Karlsruhe. In 2026, the Tel Aviv Museum of Art presented Ringers in Motion.
Artist statement
From the outside, art is regarded as highbrow, intellectual, and human. Automation, however, is perceived as rote, boring, and robotic.
In my artistic practice I try to bridge that disparate gap by using software to automate the generation of unique art pieces in less than a fraction of a second. My hope is to elicit the same kind of emotions and reactions that viewers feel when viewing art that has been “generated” by hand, and help them consider automation as an artform and act of creativity.
Whether acting as an artist, or engineer, automation is my artistic medium.
