Press Kit | Colin Goldberg

Ebisu, 2026. Acrylic and archival inkjet on linen, 36 × 64 in. Courtesy the artist and Helmholz Fine Art. Download high-res JPG →

Marcel, 2026. Acrylic and archival inkjet on linen, 32 × 24 in. Courtesy the artist and Helmholz Fine Art. Download high-res JPG →

Encounter, 2026. Acrylic and archival inkjet on linen, 32 × 24 in. Courtesy the artist and Helmholz Fine Art. Download high-res JPG →

Kneeling Icon, 2004/2022, Metagraph series. Digital monoprint on vinyl, 100 × 75 in., with AR animation. Original audio, 23 sec. loop, edition 1/1. Collection of the Hearst Corporation, installed at Hearst Tower, New York. Download high-res JPG →

The studio at Sage Street Mill, North Bennington, Vermont. Download high-res JPG →

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Press contact

Colin Goldberg · studio@goldberg.art · studio in North Bennington, Vermont, about 3–4 hours from New York City

New work: paintings from the Mill

Since moving his studio into a nineteenth-century mill in North Bennington, Vermont, Colin Goldberg has made a new body of large paintings that join brushwork and digital drawing. The new works, including Ebisu, Marcel and Encounter, are shown in Vermont by Helmholz Fine Art in Manchester.

Press release

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Colin Goldberg Unveils New Mill Paintings Ahead of a Paris Group Show and His First Solo Museum Exhibition

NORTH BENNINGTON, Vt., November 2026: Painter Colin Goldberg, who coined the term Techspressionism, is showing new paintings made in his studio at the Sage Street Mill in North Bennington, Vermont. Three of them, Ebisu, Marcel and Encounter (all 2026), are on view at Helmholz Fine Art in Manchester, Vermont.

The Mill paintings carry forward the approach Goldberg has developed for more than two decades: layers of gestural hand painting and digital drawing, with the drawing printed directly onto the painted surface.

Two exhibitions follow in 2027:

Paris, January 2027. Goldberg’s Metagraph works appear in Mémoire de l’Avenir, the first European exhibition of Techspressionist artworks, with 94 artists from 25 countries.
Cape Cod Museum of Art, June 4 – August 22, 2027. Metagraphs: Augmented Reality Art is Goldberg’s first solo museum exhibition. The Metagraphs are vector-based digital drawings, made from 1999 on, that come alive through augmented reality with motion and original sound. Viewers scan a QR code and point a phone at the work. No app is needed.

Goldberg first used the word Techspressionism in 2011 to describe art that joins technology and expressive mark-making. In 2020 he founded an online artist group around the idea, which now includes artists from more than 50 countries. Exhibitions have followed in New York, Los Angeles and Tashkent.

His work is in the Hearst collection: Kneeling Icon (100 x 75 in.) hangs in Hearst Tower in New York. He has been featured by WIRED, PBS and GBH, and holds an MFA in Computer Art from Bowling Green State University. His book Metagraphs pairs each of its works with a haiku, and every work in it comes alive in augmented reality.

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Quotes

“works that are both energetically rhythmic and elegantly choreographed”

Eric Ernst, Hamptons Art Hub, 2014

“Movement implies momentum, and Techspressionism certainly has that.”

Helen Harrison, longtime Director, Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center, in Dan’s Papers

“has pioneered and championed the ‘techspressionist’ movement”

Danielle M. Crosier, Bennington Banner, 2025

About the artist

Colin Goldberg with Ebisu, 2026. Download portrait JPG →

Colin Goldberg is a painter and digital artist based in North Bennington, Vermont. He coined the term Techspressionism in 2011 and founded the international art movement of that name. His work has been featured by WIRED and PBS and is in the Hearst Corporation collection.

Long bio

Colin Goldberg’s paintings merge gestural abstraction with the tools of the digital age. His Shodo series grew from his grandmother Kimiye Ebisu’s calligraphy. In the late 1990s, working from a small studio on Avenue A in Manhattan’s East Village, he supported himself as a freelance designer and coder in ad agencies and media companies, building some of the earliest websites for brands such as Snapple, Popular Science and Merrill Lynch. He trained as a studio assistant to Steve Miller in Sagaponack, earned an MFA in Computer Art from Bowling Green State University (2008), and in 2011 named the idea that drives his practice: Techspressionism, technology used to express emotional experience. Since 2020 he has led the Techspressionism community, which now includes hundreds of artists in dozens of countries, through monthly salons and exhibitions in New York, Los Angeles, Tashkent and, in January 2027, Paris. His Metagraphs, digital drawings that come alive through augmented reality, are collected in a book with a foreword by Paul D. Miller (DJ Spooky). In 2023 the Hearst Corporation acquired Kneeling Icon for its permanent collection.

Key facts

Based: North Bennington, Vermont, studio in a historic mill
Represented in Vermont by: Helmholz Fine Art
Known for: coining “Techspressionism” (2011), founding the movement (salons since September 2020)
Education: MFA, Computer Art, Bowling Green State University, 2008
Collections: Hearst Corporation (Kneeling Icon, 2023); Verostko Center for the Arts
Book: Metagraphs, foreword by Paul D. Miller aka DJ Spooky
Upcoming: Techspressionism 2027: New Visual Languages, Mémoire de l’Avenir, Paris, January 22 – March 27, 2027

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Video

WGBH Open Studio with Jared Bowen, 2017.

Techspressionism

Techspressionism is an art movement in which artists use technology to express emotional experience. About Techspressionism · Techspressionism press kit · AR works · Metagraphs · The book