Jonas Lund (Swedish, b. 1984) is a conceptual artist whose paintings, installations, and participatory systems use algorithms and rule-based structures to interrogate authorship, participation, and the mechanisms of the art world. In 2013 his exhibition “The Fear Of Missing Out” generated artworks from art-world big data, an early example of the algorithm-driven approach that runs through his later work.
Lund earned a BFA at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam in 2009 and an MA at the Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam in 2013, and was an Eyebeam resident in New York in 2012. In 2018 he launched the Jonas Lund Token, a cryptocurrency that turns collectors into shareholders with voting power over his practice. He has described its purpose as “to distribute agency in my practice”, with token holders co-opted into renegotiating how decisions are made and value is produced.
