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

2020

Noteworthy AI Work

Exhibition

A framed photographic work from Trevor Paglen's 2020 exhibition Bloom at Pace, in which a thicket of blossom is pushed through machine-vision colour transformations; the individual work is not titled on the gallery's page.
A framed photographic work from Trevor Paglen's 2020 exhibition Bloom at Pace, in which a thicket of blossom is pushed through machine-vision colour transformations; the individual work is not titled on the gallery's page. Trevor Paglen, from Bloom, 2020. Courtesy Pace Gallery.

From about 2019, the amount of AI work increased exponentially. We highlight a few exceptional standouts only in a surely incomplete list: • Acne Studios x Robbie Barrat • Neural Decay and Neural Composition by Mario Klingemann • numpytillism, transcribing after Matisse by Helena Sarin (The legend’s genesis mint) • Bloom by Trevor Paglen (Pace exhibition)

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

People

Helena Sarin, Mario Klingemann, Robbie Barrat, Trevor Paglen

Movements

Machine Learning Art, NFT Art

Filed under

Ideas
ai art, Machine Learning Art, NFT Art
Technologies
artificial intelligence, GANs, NFTs
People
Helena Sarin, Mario Klingemann, Robbie Barrat, Trevor Paglen
Works
Bloom, Neural Composition, Neural Decay, numpytillism, transcribing after Matisse
Organisations
Acne Studios, Highlight, Pace Gallery
Other subjects
Matisse

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