Maryland Art Place (MAP) is excited to announce ARTificial, an exhibition in critical discourse with the utilization, implementation and innovation of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in art making. ARTificial aims to explore the varied ways in which artists engage with AI and how it has shaped the arts since its inception.

As access to AI tools increase - our engagement with AI informs how we interface with the environment, our communities, and our work.All artworks exhibited do not necessarily utilize AI - but challenge our perception of media, technology and digitization. Exhibiting artists critique, engage, reimagine and challenge AI as [simultaneously] a tool and collaborator - AI is a system shaped by human decisions, datasets and cultural assumptions - artists in dialogue with AI are unavoidably considering concepts surrounding ethics, authorship, bias and posthumanist sentiments. Collectively, the exhibition invites sustained reflection on how algorithmic technologies reshape aesthetic production and cultural meaning.

ARTificial is on view Thursday, January 22 - Mar 14, 2026. Please join us for the closing reception and artist panel discussion on Thursday, March 12 from 6 PM to 8 PM. Carrie Fucile and Brenton Lim will be performing at 7:30 PM in MAP’s basement Cabaret and Bar.

Exhibiting Artists:

Mollye Bendell, Evan Boggess, Chris Combs, Stephanie Dinkins, Carrie Fucile, Terence Hannum, Artemis Herber, Dan Ortiz Leizman, Brenton Lim, Timothy Nohe, Elizabeth Withstandley, and Tara Youngborg.