Sterling Crispin

Sterling Crispin, born in 1985, is a conceptual artist and software engineer working across smart contracts, generative art, machine intelligence and techno-sculpture. He studied painting and drawing, and was an artist in residence at RedLine in Denver from 2008 to 2011. He is known for Data-Masks, a series of biometric masks made in response to facial recognition technology, and for Flourish, a generative collection released on Art Blocks in 2023 that draws on architectural ornamentation from the late 1800s and early 1900s. A share of the Flourish proceeds went to the Hawaii Community Foundation's Maui Strong Fund following the 2023 Maui wildfires. His work has been shown at ZKM Karlsruhe, the Seoul Museum of Art and the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, and appeared in Poetics of Encryption at KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin in 2024.