Bio
Jeffrey Alan Scudder (b. 1989, Assonet, MA) is a painter based in Los Angeles. His work moves between stretched canvas, custom software, and live performance, treating painting as a practice that extends across surfaces and systems.
Scudder builds his own tools for making images. Aesthetic.Computer is a creative computing platform he designed as an instrument for drawing, painting, and interaction. NoPaint.art, an earlier project, reimagined the paint program as a medium rather than a utility. These tools inform his studio paintings and vice versa—code becomes a way to think about color, gesture, and composition, while painting on canvas stays immediate and physical.
With Whistlegraph, a collaborative performance practice with Camille Klein and Alex Freundlich, Scudder has performed at the New Museum, Pioneer Works, ZKM Karlsruhe, and dozens of venues across the US and Europe. The group's work treats drawing as a live, social act.
He has given over 65 lectures and performances on Radical Digital Painting internationally, including at the Chaos Communication Congress and in conversation with Casey Reas at bitforms gallery. His work is in the collections of KADIST (San Francisco) and SMK (National Gallery of Denmark). He was invited to present at the inaugural Hash Award at ZKM Karlsruhe in 2018.
Scudder holds a BFA in Fine Art from Ringling College of Art and Design (2011) and an MFA in Sculpture from Yale School of Art (2013). He has taught at UCLA, Parsons The New School for Design, and Southern Oregon University. In Spring 2026, he is Author in Residence at UCLA's Social Software studio with Casey Reas. He also demos biweekly at NELA Computer Club, a biweekly demo night at Plot.Place in Chinatown, Los Angeles.
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Upcoming
Scudder's last public exhibition of physical pictures was Radical Digital Painting with Julia Yerger at Johannes Vogt Gallery in New York (June 2018), where he showed large-format digital prints on paper. In the years since, he has focused on building Aesthetic Computer, touring with Whistlegraph, and returning to painting on canvas and board.
In May 2026, he will show new physical paintings at the 47th Venice Family Clinic Art Exhibition + Auction at 910 Abbot Kinney Blvd in Venice, CA—his first gallery exhibition of physical work in eight years.
Timeline
2026
Author in Residence at UCLA Social Software studio with Casey Reas. Participating in the 47th Venice Family Clinic Art Exhibition + Auction. Demoing biweekly at NELA Computer Club at Plot.Place in Chinatown.
2025
Spoke at El Cid. Participated in the inaugural Turbo Cheap exhibition. Continuing development of Aesthetic Computer and studio painting practice in Los Angeles. Joined NELA Computer Club.
2024
Created the Aesthetic Inc. corporation.
2023
Released 129 Freaky Flowers and Sex: The Whistlegraph Zine. Continuing work on aesthetic.computer.
2022
Performed The Longest Whistlegraph Ever (so far) at the New Museum. Whistlegraph became a co-owned company and had its first solo exhibition with Feral File. Shifted focus back to aesthetic.computer and educational software design.
2021
Most of my work has been consolidated by Whistlegraph. I resigned from Southern Oregon University to grow the practice with my partners Camille Klein and Alex Freundlich. I then released Radical Digital Painting, Ten Minute Painting and other prior major work to the digital art market. Began writing aesthetic.computer.
2019–2020
Released a new version of No Paint. Keynoted Korea HCI 2020. Started and grew a TikTok account to over 300k followers. Keynoted at India HCI 19. Created Meeting Mr. Kid Pix for the Internet Archive AIR program. Performed at RAFLOST in Iceland, and gave a visiting artist lecture at Weber State University. Participated in Processing Community Day, LA in January 2019 and spent February in Puerto Rico. Toured Europe with the band Goodiepal & Pals and performed Radical Digital Painting & Political Rock lecture shows at art institutions, schools, and music venues from August through December 2018.
2016–2019
Jeffrey travels and spends his time performing, programming and making pictures. Since 2016 he has given over 65 lecture performances on Radical Digital Painting and related topics in the US and in Europe, often with collaborators Goodiepal & Pals, Julia Yerger, Artur Erman, and Casey REAS. He has taught at UCLA and Parsons The New School for Design and worked previously at the design studio Linked by Air. Jeffrey received an MFA in Sculpture from Yale University School of Art in 2013. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Emerging Digital Practices at Southern Oregon University.
Geo. Log
2025 — Los Angeles, CA
2023 — New York, NY
2019 — Ashland, OR
2018 — Berkeley, CA
2017 — Los Angeles, CA
2016 — Bridgton, ME
2013 — Brooklyn, NY
2011 — New Haven, CT
2007 — Sarasota, FL
1989 — Assonet, MA (Born)
Education
2013 — Yale School of Art — MFA
2011 — Ringling College of Art + Design — BFA
2010 — AICAD New York Studio Program Residency
2006 — Ringling College of Art + Design PreCollege Perspective
2007 — Apponequet Regional High School
Press, Interviews, Articles and Pages
2023 — Whistlegraph — A new audience for generative art, Dirt
2023 — Sex: The Whistlegraph Zine, interviews by Asher Penn, essays by Jacob Ciocci & Perry
2022 — Doodling Clockwork in Lore and Score, Dorothy Howard, Feral File
2019 — On Radical Digital Painting, The Artword Podcast
2019 — Drawing is the best videogame, The Creative Independent
2018 — Radical Digital Painting & Political Rock, Are.na Blog
2018 — Harvard Advocate, Winter 2018, Noise
2017 — A Manifesto for Radical Digital Painting, Schlosspost
Lectures, Conferences & Performances
2025 — Talk @ El Cid, Los Angeles, CA
2020 — New Dynamic Graphics: Whistlegraph Recital @ Korea HCI 2020
2019 — New Dynamic Graphics @ India HCI 19, Hyderabad, India
2019 — VJ @ Internet Archive's World Night Market w/ Patrick Vogel, San Francisco
2019 — RDP @ SF Art Book Fair w/ Alex Freundlich
2019 — RDP & VJ @ Internet Archive's DWeb Camp w/ Alex Freundlich
2019 — RDP @ Yale — IEEE GEM Conference
2018 — RDP (JAS on Paper), The House on Sunset, Los Angeles, CA
2018 — RDP (JAS on Paper), 1 Thoresby St. w/ Leon Sadler, Nottingham, UK
2018 — RDP (JAS on Paper) w/ GP&PLS, Centrala, Birmingham, UK
2018 — RDP (JAS on Paper) w/ GP&PLS, Colchester Arts Center, Colchester, UK
2018 — RDP (JAS on Paper) w/ GP&PLS, Cafe OTO, London, UK
2018 — RDP (JAS on Paper), Gazelli Art House, London, UK
2018 — RDP (JAS on Paper) Yale School of Art (Painting), New Haven, CT
2018 — RDP (JAS on Paper) generate!_lab meets Querfeldein, Tubingen, Germany
2018 — RDP (JAS on Paper) One Night in Club Danger, curated by Taissa Fromme, Apolda, Germany
2018 — RDP (JAS on Paper) Bauhaus University: Arts, Weimar, Germany
2018 — RDP (JAS on Paper) w/ GP&PLS (Rowan van As) Serendip Festival, Paris
2018 — RDP (JAS on Paper) Klasse Digitale Grafik | HFBK, Hamburg, Germany
2018 — RDP (JAS on Paper) Exploration Laboratory @ Sibelius Academy, Helsinki
2018 — RDP (JAS on Paper) Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, Holland
2018 — Radical Digital Painting & Political Rock @ Erratum Galerie, Berlin
2018 — RDP (JAS on Paper) w/ Goodiepal & Pals, Kammer-Pop, Hamburg
2018 — RDP (JAS on Paper) w/ Goodiepal & Pals, Dans for voksne, Oslo
2018 — RDP (JAS on Paper) w/ Dalin, Rowan & Ben, Open Forum, Oslo National Academy of the Arts
2018 — RDP (JAS on Paper) @ Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm
2018 — RDP (JAS on Paper) @ Estonian Academy of Arts, Tallinn
2018 — RDP (JAS on Paper) w/ GP&PLS, dodo.org HarFest, Helsinki
2018 — RDP (JAS on Paper) w/ GP&PLS, Mayhem, Copenhagen
2018 — RDP (JAS on Paper) Det Jyske Kunstakademi, Aarhus, Denmark
2018 — RDP (JAS on Paper) w/ Goodiepal & Pals, Louisiana Museum Literature Festival
2018 — RDP (JAS on Paper) w/ Goodiepal & Pals, KUNSTHAL AARHUS
2018 — RDP (JAS on Paper) w/ Goodiepal & Pals, Spanien 19C, Aarhus
2018 — RDP (JAS on Paper) w/ Goodiepal & Pals, West Germany Venue, Berlin
2018 — RDP @ Headquarters, Asheville, NC
2018 — RDP Lecture @ Johannes Vogt Gallery, NYC
2018 — RDP (x2) @ RISD Foundations w/ Travess Smalley's students, Providence, RI
2018 — RDP @ UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA
2018 — RDP @ Harvard Advocate's Noise Launch Party, Boston, MA
2018 — RDP @ SUNY Purchase, NY
2018 — RDP @ Coaxial Arts in LA
2017 — Radical Digital Painting Northeast US Lecture Tour w/ JAS Team (Parsons, Victoria's Basement, Rutgers, RISD, UMASS, Harvard, Temple University, Baltimore, Yale, Kimberly-Klark)
2017 — RDP @ Cafe OTO, London
2017 — RDP @ RBABARRAB, Copenhagen
2017 — RDP @ GIPHY's TIME_FRAME Exhibition
2016 — Explained Pictures Basement Show — Victoria Sobel's Basement, Brooklyn, NY
2016 — Guest Lecturer: Projects Class, Cooper Union, New York
Solo Exhibitions
2022 — Ten Whistlegraphs, Feral File (w/ Whistlegraph)
2018 — Radical Digital Painting: Los Angeles, The Newsstand Project & CAP, Los Angeles, CA
2017 — Tumpin, left.gallery, Online
2017 — Imaginary Screenshots, Whitcher Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2016 — No Paint: Release One, Essex Flowers (Digital Commission), Website
2016 — What do we see when we close our eyes?, SCREEN_, Email
2013 — Attn: Trap, Parallelograms, World Wide Web
2008 — Open Your Heart To Me, Crossley Gallery, Sarasota, FL
Group Exhibitions
2026 — 47th Venice Family Clinic Art Exhibition + Auction, 910 Abbot Kinney Blvd, Venice, CA
2025 — Turbo Cheap (inaugural exhibition), Los Angeles, CA
2018 — drawings, 650mAh
2018 — INTENTIONS BASED ON A FUTURE WHICH HAS ALREADY HAPPENED (curated by Alex Corbett), Naming Gallery, Oakland, CA
2018 — Radical Digital Painting w/ Julia Yerger, Johannes Vogt Gallery, NYC
2018 — OPEN CODES (Schloss Solitude Web Residencies), ZKM, Karlsruhe
2017 — drawinghomework.net Presents, February Gallery, Austin, TX
2017 — New Dawn, Neumeister Bar-Am, Berlin
2017 — Coping Copy, Konstanet, Online
2016 — Becoming That, becomingthat.com, curated by Levi Easterbrooks, Online
2016 — Drawing Homework, Online
2015 — VIDEO MIXER, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT
2015 — P.S.1 Commencement, ALLGOLD @ MoMA PS1 Printshop, Long Island City, NY
2015 — RENDER SERIES (3), ALLGOLD @ MoMA PS1 Printshop, Long Island City, NY
2015 — Clorox/Envy, STILL HOUSE GROUP, Brooklyn, NY
2013 — 'Toonskin, Artspace, New Haven, CT
2013 — APARTMENT SHOW — Hosted by Nouriel Roubini, Nouriel Roubini's Apartment, New York, NY
2013 — Yale Sculpture MFA Thesis Exhibition, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT
2013 — "Now that I have your attention, what do I do with it?", New York Studio Program, Brooklyn, NY
2012 — 3rd Floor, The New Haven Business Center, New Haven, CT
2012 — MFA 2013 Second Year Show, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT
2011 — Frais Peint MFA 2013 First Year Show, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT
2011 — 1408: Group Show, 1408 Art Space (Joint Collective), Sarasota, FL
2011 — Fine Arts BFA Thesis Exhibition, Crossley Gallery, Sarasota, FL
2011 — SURPLUS, curated by RCAD Senior Thesis Class, Sarasota, FL
2011 — Best of Ringling (President's Award), curated by Chie Fueki, RCAD, Sarasota, FL
2011 — NUGENT · PHILLIPS · SCUDDER — Compulsory Thesis Exhibition, Crossley Gallery, Sarasota, FL
2010 — Best of Ringling 2010, curated by Jay Davis, RCAD, Sarasota, FL
2009 — Advanced Drawing, with Bradley Wester's Junior Advanced Drawing, Crossley Gallery, Sarasota, FL
2009 — OPEN, with Bradley Wester's Fine Arts Painting III, Crossley Gallery, Sarasota, FL
2009 — no ones little grr, with Jenny Vu and Sarah Valdez, Crossley Gallery, Sarasota, FL
2009 — The New Easy, curated by Lars Eijssen, Artnews Projects, Berlin
2009 — No Bad Memories, with the NYSP class of Spring 2009, New York Studio Program, Brooklyn, NY
2008 — Best of Ringling 2008 (Juror's Award), curated by Dominique Nahas, RCAD, Sarasota, FL
2008 — Realia, curated by Kayla Carlson, Big E's, Sarasota, FL
Residencies
2026 — Author in Residence, UCLA Social Software (Casey Reas), Los Angeles, CA
2017 — Schloss-Post Web Residencies No. 2 by Solitude & ZKM
Curated Exhibitions
2018 — Make Pictures, bitforms gallery, NYC
2014 — Island Girl, Gordilloscudder, Brooklyn, NY
2013 — Interludes & Remnants, Gordilloscudder, Brooklyn, NY
Workshops
2017 — Programming for Graphic Designers, Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT
Teaching Experience
2026 — Author in Residence, UCLA Social Software (Casey Reas), Los Angeles, CA
2024 — UCLA DMA Summer Section: Interactivity
2019 — Assistant Professor of Emerging Digital Practices, Southern Oregon University, Ashland, OR
2017 — RDP Lecture & Workshop, Yale University School of Art — Graphic Design, New Haven, CT
2016 — Visiting Professor, UCLA Digital Media Arts, Los Angeles, CA
2013–2016 — Adjunct Professor, Parsons New School for Design, New York, NY
Professional Experience
2021 — Artist Mentor / Adviser, wild.xyz, San Francisco, CA
2017 — Technical Curator, GIPHY, New York, NY
2016 — Contractor, Kickstarter, Brooklyn, NY
2016 — Contractor, New Art Dealers Association & Linked by Air, New York, NY
2013–2014 — Linked by Air, New York, NY
2013–2014 — Partner — Gordilloscudder gallery, New York, NY
2013 — Programmer — allmyfriendsatonce.com, New York, NY
2012–2013 — Web Development — New York & Los Angeles Art Book Fair, Printed Matter, New York, NY
2012 — Teaching Assistant for Johannes DeYoung, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT
2012 — art.yale.edu Student Administrator, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT
2012 — Checkout Assistant — Digital Media Center for the Arts, Yale University, New Haven, CT
2011 — Studio Assistant — Nathan Skiles, Sarasota, FL
2010 — Children's Activity Programmer — Travels With Max Books, Naples, FL
2010 — Information Technology Assistant — Ringling College of Art + Design, Sarasota, FL
2009 — Gallery Assistant — Ringling College of Art + Design, Sarasota, FL
2007 — Dishwasher — The Perch Restaurant, Denali, AK
2004–2006 — Boys Gymnastics Coach — East Bay Gymnastics, Bristol, RI