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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Dominic Rushe

‘Painting is like a cockroach or a shark, perfectly evolved’: artist Seth Price

Seth Price, pictured in his studio in Queens, New York in 2022.
Seth Price, pictured in his studio in Queens, New York in 2022. Photograph: © Seth Price. Photo Kat Parker

Seth Price is slippy. Since the 1990s the artist has been producing genre-defying works that cross film with technology, photography with archaeology, sculpture, map-making and even zoology – all while making music and writing memoirs and fiction. Now, as tech is the mainstream movement in art, he’s opening his first show of paintings. Well, sort of.

“My work often falls between the cracks of categories,” Price says. “It used to worry me, but now I think it saved me.”

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