Colin Adriel Goldberg (born December 23, 1971) is an American visual artist known for his role in the development of Techspressionism.[1]
Goldberg coined the term Techspressionism in 2011 as the title of a solo exhibition in Southampton, New York.[2] Goldberg went on to write the Techspressionist Manifesto in 2014,[3] and Techspressionism was first referred to as a movement in WIRED later that year.[1] The use of the hashtag #techspressionism on Instagram became the primary way that the idea began to proliferate globally, with over 40,000 Instagram posts using the hashtag as of April 2022.[4]
Early life and education
Colin Goldberg was born in the
Bronx, New York[5] in 1971 to parents of Japanese and Jewish ancestry.[6] He grew up on the East End of Long Island.[5]
Goldberg studied Studio Art at
Abstract Expressionist painter Angelo Ippolito,[1] who was responsible for introducing him to abstraction and encouraged his move to New York City after graduation. As an undergraduate student, he did an internship through Long Island University, working as a studio assistant in the Hamptons for artist Steve Miller. Goldberg worked alongside Robert Bardin, a longtime screen printer for Andy Warhol.[7]
After completing his undergraduate degree in 1994, Goldberg established his first studio in an old bank building in Williamsburg, Brooklyn before relocating to Manhattan's East Village shortly thereafter.
Ohio
In 2005, Goldberg was offered a full scholarship into the MFA
In 2014, he exhibited a survey of his work at Glenn Horowitz Bookseller in East Hampton, New York. The solo show, curated by the artist Scott Bluedorn, was accompanied by a text entitled The Techspressionist Manifesto, which was inspired by artistic manifestos of the past, including the Surrealist Manifesto and the Futurist Manifesto.[7] The text included an initial definition of the term Techspressionism, an amalgam of the Oxford English Dictionary definitions of Expressionism and technology.[3]