Avery Singer
PROJECT
Deepfake Stan is part of a series of paintings influenced by Avery Singer’s experience of the 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York. The work depicts Stan Honda, a photojournalist whose images were widely circulated during media coverage of 9/11. Built from digitally altered composite images, Deepfake Stan prompts reflection on how images circulate within our networked visual environment and the media’s role in shaping perceptions of collective trauma. For the 2026 NGV Triennial, Singer has presented Deepfake Stan within an installation that draws on her recollections of the office interiors of the World Trade Center, where her mother worked before the attacks.
The acquisition of this artist’s work is supported by an anonymous donor
ABOUT
Avery Singer is known for her innovative approach to painting, which blurs the boundaries between virtual and physical image-making and blends digital techniques with traditional media to explore themes of technology, identity and contemporary visual culture. Singer often uses industrial materials and binary computer language to engage with the legacies of painting and modernism. Singer studied at the Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main, and Cooper Union, New York. She has held solo exhibitions at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam (Netherlands); Museum Ludwig, Cologne (Germany); Secession, Vienna (Austria); Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin (Italy); and the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (US). Her work was included in the 2015 New Museum Triennial (US); the 13th Biennale de Lyon (France); and the 2019 Venice Biennale (Italy). Singer’s work is in the permanent collections of the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (US), and the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam (Netherlands), among others.