Trevor Paglen (1974, US) is a visual artist who lives and works in New York. Paglen holds a BA from UC Berkeley, an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and a PhD in geography from UC Berkeley. His work blurs disciplinary and formal borders to construct unfamiliar ways to see and interpret the world around us. Paglen’s visual work has been exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York), Tate Modern (London), Walker Arts Center (Minneapolis), the Andy Warhol Museum (Pittsburgh), the Institute for Contemporary Art (Boston), the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Istanbul Biennial 2009, and in many other solo and group exhibitions. He is the author of five books and numerous articles on subjects such as future warfare, state secrecy, experimental geography, anthropogeomorphology, deep-time, and cave art.