Corinne Whitaker

Short Biography

-

Corinne Whitaker, aka the Digital Giraffe, has been acclaimed for 42 years as one of the pioneering artists in the fields of digital imaging and digital sculpture. She has exhibited worldwide in over 80 solo and 260 group exhibitions, including a large solo exhibit entitled “Corinne Whitaker dot Uncom” at the San Bernardino County Museum, “No Rules” at the Peninsula Museum in Burlingame, CA.,  and “CyberSphere” at Stanford University. She presented the first digital fine art exhibition in India and has shown work in Thailand, Germany, England, Japan , Russia, France, China, Singapore, and Italy. She has shown at the Austin Museum of Digital Art and the Museum of Computer Art.  She has lectured extensively on the radical new iconography offered by the computer, including “Look Ma. No Paintbrush!” at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.  In 2007  Whitaker exhibited at Art Biennale in Florence, Italy. In 2010 she exhibited her work at United States Biennale in New York City. In 2011 her solo show “Mind Over Matter” took place at Evolve the Gallery in Sacramento, California.  Eight of her digital sculptures are located in  DAAP, the world’s first virtual sculpture park online. In 2014 she was included in “Best of 2014” at ARC Gallery in Chicago. In 2015 she was one of the distinguished sculptors invited to participate in an International Conference on 3D printing at Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas. In 2021 she will have a solo show at the Monterey Museum of Art in California titled “Leaves of Glass”.

​

Whitaker is one of the featured artists in the CD ROM and book, “Women Artists of the American West”.  Her work has won over 30 awards, including “Best in CyberArt” and two Golden Web Awards as well as an Artist’s Fellowship Award from the City of Pasadena. She is featured in “Art of the Digital Age”, as well as the DVD set “International Digital Sculpture, 2009”. She is also the author of 30 books of digital paintings and poetry. (www.giraffe.com/gr_hookedonbooks.html). Whitaker’s award-winning Digital Giraffe online journal, (www.giraffe.com) now in its 26th year of web publication, has been visited by 199 nations. It presents a changing exhibit of digital sculpture, sculptural renderings, and paintings along with features, critiques and articles, most of them archived online for the free use of scholars, curators, academics, art lovers, and critics.

​

Whitaker has been actively involved in the art community. For ten years she ran the Digital Giraffe gallery in Carmel, California. She has been a Board Member of the Fellows of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles and the
Carmel Gallery Alliance. She founded and curated the “Sculpture Withindoors” exhibit at the Carmel Art Festival. She is represented by the
Paul Mahder Gallery in Healdsburg, CA.

Artist Statement

-

A.I. and I
It all began with a crude selfie. After several voyages through A.I., I became a young woman and an old man with a beard. You will see them at the bottom of the image called “Lost and Found”.
Do we know who we are anymore? Are we the Quasi’s, half carbon half robot? Are we the Newanderthals, swollen with hubristic pride, yet primitively addicted to warfare?
We only know that we are transitioning, between the homo–not-so-sapiens to something other-than. What if we send self-replicating nanobots into space? What if they refuse to acknowledge us as their forebears, ask what humans were good for, disavow this species that devastated its planet home and turned against each other?
These digital portraits evolved from that first selfie. Do we want to face what we have become? Do we stop to ask if we like ourselves?
A.I. and I ask those questions, and neither of us has any answers.

-

Corinne Whitaker 2020