Past Member

Perry Chen

Former Director's Fellow

Perry Chen is a New York City-based artist and creator of the funding platform Kickstarter, where he was CEO through 2013. He was a TED Fellow in 2010, and named to TIME magazine’s 2013 list of the 100 most influential people in the world.

Perry, who co-founded Southfirst gallery in Brooklyn, NY in 2001, has exhibited his artwork in New York, Berlin, and Mexico City. Most recently, he presented Computers in Crisis, his project investigating our perceptions of Y2K, for the New Museum’s First Look program.