Artemin Gallery is now representing Yuri in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and South Korea
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Artemin Gallery is delighted to announce our representation of Yuri Zupancic.
Yuri Zupancic (b. 1980) is an American artist based in Paris. He is best known for miniature paintings made directly on microchips—works that crystallize the ambitions and paradoxes of contemporary technological progress. Approaching technology as a site of inquiry rather than critique, Zupancic treats the microchip as both material and metaphor.
Working at a scale that defies ordinary perception, often painting with a single eyelash, his practice resists the maximalist aesthetics of consumer culture while echoing the relentless miniaturization of our most powerful devices. Driven by a fascination with the esoteric elegance of circuitry—forms typically hidden from view—he paints on the very components that transmit and store private data, emotions, and memories, giving visual form to a felt digital presence.
Blending classical painting techniques with digital processes, his works inhabit a liminal space between the tactile and the virtual. His work has been featured in WIRED, Juxtapoz, and the New York Times, and exhibited internationally from the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco to galleries in Paris, London, and Tokyo.
We are proud to have presented Yuri Zupancic at Pavilion Taipei Art Fair, Grand Courtyard, Taipei (January 2026) and Art OnO Seoul (April 2026).
Yuri Zupancic (b. 1980) is an American artist based in Paris. He is best known for miniature paintings made directly on microchips—works that crystallize the ambitions and paradoxes of contemporary technological progress. Approaching technology as a site of inquiry rather than critique, Zupancic treats the microchip as both material and metaphor.
Working at a scale that defies ordinary perception, often painting with a single eyelash, his practice resists the maximalist aesthetics of consumer culture while echoing the relentless miniaturization of our most powerful devices. Driven by a fascination with the esoteric elegance of circuitry—forms typically hidden from view—he paints on the very components that transmit and store private data, emotions, and memories, giving visual form to a felt digital presence.
Blending classical painting techniques with digital processes, his works inhabit a liminal space between the tactile and the virtual. His work has been featured in WIRED, Juxtapoz, and the New York Times, and exhibited internationally from the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco to galleries in Paris, London, and Tokyo.
We are proud to have presented Yuri Zupancic at Pavilion Taipei Art Fair, Grand Courtyard, Taipei (January 2026) and Art OnO Seoul (April 2026).
Two of Yuri's paintings on microchips will be exhibited at ArtHouse Tai Hang in the context of Art Basel Hong Kong 2026! More info soon...
Artemin Gallery is honored to present works by Yuri Zupancic and Taiwanese artist Lu Yuan-Tse at PAVILION Taipei 2026.
This exhibition is developed in response to Pavilion’s curatorial framework, which centers on the themes of urban memory, nostalgia, and the notion of return.
Yuri Zupancic employs computer components and technological materials as his primary artistic media, transforming highly functional objects into visual structures that carry memory and affect. Rather than pointing toward technology’s promised future, his works turn back to the remnants of technological civilization, rendering them into contemporary memories that can be perceived and read. In doing so, they engage with the tensions between urban development, collective memory, and technological transformation.
This exhibition is developed in response to Pavilion’s curatorial framework, which centers on the themes of urban memory, nostalgia, and the notion of return.
Yuri Zupancic employs computer components and technological materials as his primary artistic media, transforming highly functional objects into visual structures that carry memory and affect. Rather than pointing toward technology’s promised future, his works turn back to the remnants of technological civilization, rendering them into contemporary memories that can be perceived and read. In doing so, they engage with the tensions between urban development, collective memory, and technological transformation.
MADE ON THE MOUNTAIN
Jeremy Rockwell / Yuri Zupancic / Pauline Rrrrrrr
August 2025
Yuri Zupancic
REAL VIRTUALITY
Aspen Collective Gallery • Aspen, Colorado • July 2024
Everything ‘virtual’ was so abstract and distant. Until it wasn’t. Online banking, shopping, working, dating – even catching up with friends and family – has become so integral to most of our lives that its exoticism has evolved into normality. This shift happened so quickly and (mostly) seamlessly that I’m left grasping pixels and trying to weigh the tangible, palpable presence of the myriad fruits of the internet explosion. It’s a cornucopia of knowledge and distraction, of convenience and confusion, of utopia and turmoil. And it’s only growing. That’s our reality.
What if we subject our machines to human algorithms? Can we evolve in harmony with artificial intelligence? Far from a luddite, I embrace technological evolution as natural evolution. But we can’t go to sleep at the wheel. My art practice is an effort to speak to machines on human terms, on an intuitive level, painting life onto microchips, projecting animations on paintings, inviting humor and wonder down holistic tangents to complement all the binary logic.
As a multi-media artist, I’m endlessly inspired by the incredible tools expanding our capacity for creative expression, giving new voice to imagination. It would be foolish to resist trying new technology. I don’t want to simply meet machines in the middle, I hope we boost each other to higher ground, co-evolving gracefully and doing some good for the world. But Marshall McLuhan convincingly defined communication technology as an extension of man… so I’m probably just talking to myself, and hoping to gain some kind of insight.
We’re living in uncharted territory, beyond the limits of any classical understanding, which is why I rely on art to open my mind a little wider and glimpse some new perspectives.
-Yuri Zupancic