Artist Spotlight - Corinne Whitaker — Contemporary Art Curator Magazine

Biography

Corinne Whitaker, aka the Digital Giraffe, has been acclaimed for 47 years as a pioneer in digital imaging and digital sculpture. She has exhibited worldwide in over 80 solo and 260 group exhibitions, including “Corinne Whitaker: Digital Mindscapes” at the Monterey Museum of Art, “Corinne Whitaker dot Uncom” at the San Bernardino County Museum, “No Rules” at the Peninsula Museum in Burlingame, CA., and “CyberSphere” at Stanford University.

Delectables, 2025, Unique Digital Painting in LED Lighted Box, 182.88 x 91.44

She presented the first digital fine art exhibition in India and has shown work in Thailand, Germany, England, Japan , Russia, France, China, Singapore, and Italy. She has shown at the Austin Museum of Digital Art and the Museum of Computer Art. She has lectured extensively on the radical new iconography offered by the computer, including “Look Ma. No Paintbrush!” in 1994 at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

Ekstasis, 2025, Unique Digital Painting in LED Lighted Box, 182.88 x 91.44

In 2010 she exhibited her work at United States Biennale in New York City. A dozen of her digital sculptures are shown in DAAP, the world’s first virtual sculpture park online. In 2014 she was included in “Best of 2014” at ARC Gallery in Chicago. In 2015 she was one of the distinguished sculptors invited to participate in an International Conference on 3D printing at Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas.

Falling Off the Logic Tree, 2025, Unique Digital Painting in LED Lighted Box, 182.88 x 91.44

In 2021 she was one of 20 international sculptors selected to participate in a digital sculpture exhibition at the Galerie Maitre Albert in Paris, juried by an international panel of experts from Europe, China, America, and the Pacific. Whitaker is one of the featured artists in the CD ROM and book, “Women Artists of the American West”.

If Love Were a Tapestry, 2025, Unique Digital Painting in LED Lighted Box, 182.88 x 91.44

Her work has won over 30 awards, including “Best in CyberArt” and two Golden Web Awards. She is featured in “Art of the Digital Age”, as well as the DVD set “International Digital Sculpture, 2009”. She is also the author of 33 books of digital imaging and poetry, and composer of music based on AI.

Metaverse on Steroids, 2025, Unique Digital Painting in LED Lighted Box, 182.88 x 91.44

Whitaker’s award-winning Digital Giraffe online journal, now in its 31st year of web publication, has been visited by 223 nations. It presents a changing exhibit of digital sculpture, sculptural renderings, and paintings along with features, critiques and articles, most of them archived online for the free use of scholars, curators, academics, art lovers, and critics.

Passions of the Vine, 2025, Unique Digital Painting in LED Lighted Box, 182.88 x 91.44

Artist Statement

Goodbye and Hello We understand change when it means changing jobs, trains, diapers, money. But what’s happening now is a radical redefinition of change. It means we’re not sure who we are any more. We’re not sure what’s a bot and what’s a me.

Silence Was A Woman, 2025, Unique Digital Painting in LED Lighted Box, 182.88 x 91.44

Algorithms are now sweethearts. They think, they reason, they-self-correct, they converse, they diagnose. Where does that leave a human being? Being what? At the moment, being confused. Being frightened. Borders are crumbling. Boundaries are vanishing. Old definitions evaporate. New species emerge. What’s next? c. Corinne Whitaker 2025

https://www.giraffe.com