Kirk Finkel [untitled, xyz] is an artist and metaverse architect based in New York. His work explores virtual architecture through ai-generation and modular design concepts with a focus on developing immersive experiences for digital art. Prior to xyz, he practiced as an urban designer, co-founded the Sndbox incubator and the art collective Hither Yon. Currently, Kirk is the Director of Architecture at the Museum of Crypto Art, MOCA.
Education
- 2014 Master of Science in Architecture and Urban Design, MsAUD — GSAPP, Columbia University
- 2011 Bachelor of Architecture, BArch — AAP, Cornell University
Interviews + Press
- 2024 Impossible Designs, Modular Metaverses, and Public Goods — Brady Walker, MakersPlace
- 2023 All of my buildings are inside out — Anna Seaman, MORROW Collective
- 2022 A Beginner's Guide To The Metaverse — N3W LANDS, Fortune
- 2022 Can the Metaverse Disrupt Architecture? — Fifth Wall Ventures
- 2022 Tour the Metaverse — Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune
- 2022 Metaverse Feature — Galileo, ProSieben
- 2022 The Four Faces of Kirk Finkel — Max Cohen, Museum of Crypto Art
- 2022 Who is designing the architectures of the metaverse? — Andrea Daniele Signorelli, domus
- 2022 Why Every 3D Designer / Architect Can Benefit From the Creator Economy in the Metaverse — Chloe Sun, ArchDaily
- 2021 A Crypto Architect Takes Us Inside the 'Visual Language' of the Metaverse — Brady Dale, The Defiant
- 2018 Off the Blockchain: Shedding Light on Cryptocurrency — Brian Vines, BRIC TV
Publication Features
- 2024 On NFTs: The Hard Code Edition — Robert Alice, Taschen
- 2023 Multispace: Architecture at the Dawn of the Metaverse — Owen Hopkins; "Architecture in Postreality" essay by Jesse Damiani, Architectural Design
Exhibitions
- 2025 CITY EDGES — Eterno Gallery, Lisbon, PT — Curated by Pauline Foessel
- 2024 PROJECTIONS — Galerie Charlot, Paris, FR — Curated by Elisabeth Karolyi
- 2024 /SPATIAL — techcontemporary gallery / objktone, Copenhagen, DK + Virtual — Curated by Bay Backner + Damir First
- 2024 {R(Evolutionaries);} — Art Dubai, Dubai, UAE — Curated by MORROW
- 2023 DYOR — Kunsthalle Zürich, Zürich, CH — Curated by Nina Roehrs
- 2023 UAE First Immersion — Art Dubai Digital, Dubai, UAE — Curated by MORROW
- 2023 GALLERY^2 — ETH Denver, Denver, USA — Curated by IRL Art
- 2022 VRUSEUM — Secondary Bounce, Virtual — Curated by Boldtron + SlurpTV
- 2022 Silvermine — Silvermine Arts Gallery, New Canaan, USA + Virtual — Curated by Snowcrash
- 2022 Elsewhere is a Negative Mirror — Vellum LA, Los Angeles, USA — Curated by Jesse Damiani + Sinziana Velicescu
- 2021 CADAF — Crypto And Digital Art Fair, Virtual
- 2021 Hack of a Bear by Hackatao — Virtual — Curated by Eleonora Brizi, Christie's, M○C△, Arium
- 2020 I○C△ — Incubator of Crypto Art, Virtual
- 2018 Crypto Renaissance — 100 Bogart Gallery, Brooklyn, USA (as Sndbox)
- 2014 techne, n — Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, DK — Curated by KWY (as Hither Yon)
- 2012 No Illusion — Kreuzberg Pavillon, Kassel, DE — Curated by Yujin Lee (as Hither Yon)
- 2012 Id, Ego, Superego — Traffic Konzept, Berlin, DE (as Hither Yon)
- 2011 The Hither Yon Collective — Milano, IT — Curated by Carlotta Testori (as Hither Yon)