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Roxy Paine is a conceptual artist whose work explores the tension between human interventions and the natural world as he continually investigates the interplay between the realms of nature, humanity, and industry.  Centering upon a core set of philosophic concerns in which purity is unattainable and human intervention is inevitable; Paine has developed a practice in which he pushes the boundaries of artmaking. The artist’s multifaceted approach examines complex systems from the biological to the geological to the industrial. Paine has an insatiable desire to investigate these notions through an incredibly diverse range of subjects and materials. From replicas of fungus spreading across fields to large scale dioramas to intricate relief paintings and monumental outdoor sculpture, Paine presents a fractured natural world altered by humankind.

Paine is a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow. His artwork can be found in the permanent collections of the Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY; Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR; Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park, Grand Rapids, MI; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA; Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO; Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC; Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, TX; North Carolina Museum of Art Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC; Olympic Sculpture Park of Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA; Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, NE; St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; Fundación NMAC, Cadiz, Spain; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel; De Pont Museum of Contemporary Art, Tilburg, Netherlands; Wanas Foundation, Knislinge, Sweden, among many others.