Generative Art Timeline · Chapter 6: Personal Computer Era (1980s)

1982

Nam June Paik at Whitney Museum of American Art

Exhibition · North America

Nam June Paik's V-yramid (1982), the forty-monitor video pyramid he made for his 1982 Whitney retrospective and which the museum bought that year.
Nam June Paik's V-yramid (1982), the forty-monitor video pyramid he made for his 1982 Whitney retrospective and which the museum bought that year. Nam June Paik, V-yramid, 1982. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Lemberg Foundation, Inc. in honor of Samuel Lemberg (82.11). © Nam June Paik Estate.

This Nam June Paik retrospective exhibition at the Whitney Museum celebrated the contributions of the pioneering video artist while also showcasing his latest work, V-yrimads.

According to a 1982 review in the New York Times:

“The largest show ever devoted to a single video artist, according to the museum, the exhibition comprises more than 60 works that go back to the beginnings of the Paik career.”

Text by Peter Bauman. Generative Art Timeline, Le Random, fact-checked September 2026.

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