About The Artist

Image: Artist Colin Goldberg with his Augmented Reality Artwork Circuit at the Kingsborough Art Museum in Brooklyn in 2024.

Bronx-born artist Colin Goldberg’s work explores the relationship between technology and personal expression. Goldberg is a pioneering artist at the forefront of the Techspressionism movement, a term he coined to describe the fusion of technology and artistic expression.  The working definition of Techspressionism is “An artistic approach in which technology is utilized as a means to express emotional experience.” It has been described as "Expressionism for the 21st Century." Over the last five years, Techspressionism has grown into a international movement of artists working with technology from over 45 countries. Since the Summer of 2020, when the artist group was formulated, there have been over 75K posts published on Instagram using the hashtag #techspressionism.  Critic and curator Helen Harrison, the former Director of the Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center in East Hampton NY, is the group’s advisor.

Goldberg was born in the Bronx, New York in 1971 to parents of Japanese and Jewish ancestry, both Ph.D chemists. His grandmother Kimiye was an accomplished practitioner and instructor of Japanese Shodo calligraphy in Hawaii and Japan. In the 1990’s the artist supported his studio practice as a freelancer in NYC advertising agencies, coding and designing some of the web’s first consumer-facing sites and launching brands such as Snapple, GOLF Magazine, and Popular Science online. Goldberg holds a BA in Studio Art from Binghamton University and a MFA in Computer Art from BGSU. He is a recipient of grants from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation and the New York State Council on the Arts.

Goldberg’s works reside in numerous private and public collections, including the permanent collections of the Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center, Verostko Center for the Arts, Stony Brook University Hospital and the Islip Art Museum, as well as the AOI (Art on Internet) Foundation, and Anne and Michael Spalter Digital Art Collection, one of the world’s largest private collections of early digital art.

The artist's Metagraphs collection, 25 years in the making, merges contemporary abstraction with interactive media.  Explore the Metagraphs Collection today and experience art that bridges the gap between reality and imagination. Each piece is not just a visual statement; it’s an invitation to experience art in a entirely new way.  You can learn more about the collection here.