Generative Art Timeline · Chapter 10: On-Chain Era (2020s)

2022

Noteworthy AI Work

Artwork · Women Artists

Mario Klingemann's Portrait of a man (75 years old)..., the first work named in this year's AI list: a prompt rendered as a sober painted portrait of a man in black-rimmed glasses and a blue-and-white Breton jumper, hands folded, against a pale ground.
Mario Klingemann's Portrait of a man (75 years old)..., the first work named in this year's AI list: a prompt rendered as a sober painted portrait of a man in black-rimmed glasses and a blue-and-white Breton jumper, hands folded, against a pale ground. Mario Klingemann, Portrait of a man (75 years old) in a horizontally blue-white thinly-striped french breton jumper wearing square square square cornered rectangular black rim designer glasses and greying short straight hair parting hairstyle, oil on canvas (1991), 2022. Courtesy of the artist. Owned by Le Random.

The work we currently hold in high regard may shift in importance over time, while some notable contributions will inevitably be overlooked. Here is an ongoing list of standouts from the year. Portrait of a man (75 years old) by Mario Klingemann Wall and RAY-D OH! AKTIV by Kevin Abosch Pieces of North Sea Port by Anna Ridler

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

Sources

People

Anna Ridler, Kevin Abosch, Mario Klingemann

Movements

artificial intelligence, Machine Learning Art

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Ideas
ai art
People
Anna Ridler, Kevin Abosch, Mario Klingemann
Works
Pieces of North Sea Port, Portrait of a man (75 years old), RAY-D OH! AKTIV, Wall

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