Ken Goldberg

Ken Goldberg uses new technologies to express the contrasts between what is natural and what is artificial – the liminal spaces between reality and representation. His artworks include a live garden tended by a robot controlled by over 100,000 people via the internet, a 1 millionth scale model of Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater in silicon, installations generated by live seismic data, and award-winning ballet and short documentary films. Goldberg's art has been exhibited at the Whitney Biennial, Venice Biennale, Pompidou Center, Walker Art Center, Ars Electronica (Linz Austria), ZKM (Karlsruhe), ICC Biennale (Tokyo), Kwangju Biennale (Seoul), Artists Space, and The Kitchen. His work is in the permanent collections of the Berkeley Art Museum, the Nevada Museum of Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art.

In 2023, Ken Goldberg collaborated with dancer Catie Cuan on an eight-hour performance with an industrial robot arm, alluding to the lifting, cleaning, caring, and maintaining motions performed by essential workers each day. This was presented by the National Sawdust Theater in Brooklyn and at the Exploratorium in SF. In 2024, Ken collaborated with artist Tiffany Shlain to create an invited exhibition for PST.Art: Art & Science Collide: Getty Museum Pacific Standard Time (PST) Initiative in LA, drawing inspiration from the Los Angeles landscape, the science of tree dating, and artificial intelligence. In 2026, the di Rosa San Francisco Museum presented an extended version of this exhibition.

In addition to his work as an artist, Goldberg is Founding Director of Berkeley's Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium, and Professor of Engineering and Art Practice at UC Berkeley. Goldberg currently lives in Mill Valley and has exhibited with Catharine Clark Gallery since 1995.