Refik Anadol

Refik Anadol is a Turkish American media artist, born in 1985. He earned a Master of Fine Arts in design media arts at UCLA, where he studied under Casey Reas and later taught. In 2014 he founded Refik Anadol Studio with Efsun Erkılıç, and he directs it from Los Angeles. Anadol works with machine learning and large datasets. WDCH Dreams, commissioned by the Los Angeles Philharmonic for its centennial in 2018, mapped decades of the orchestra's archive onto the exterior of Walt Disney Concert Hall. Unsupervised was installed at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 2022 and acquired the following year as the first generative artwork in its permanent collection. In 2025 Living Architecture: Gehry animated the facade of the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao. In June 2026 he and Erkılıç opened Dataland, a for-profit museum of AI art at Frank Gehry's Grand LA complex.