Lillian F. Schwartz

She was an American artist considered a pioneer of computer-mediated art and one of the first artists notable for basing almost her entire oeuvre on computational media. Many of her ground-breaking projects were done in the 1960s and 1970s, well before the desktop computer revolution made computer hardware and software widely available to artists.

Schwartz's artworks have been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art (New York),the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Moderna Museet (Stockholm), Centre Pompidou (Paris),Stedelijk Museum of Art (Amsterdam), the Grand Palais Museum (Paris), and at numerous galleries and festivals worldwide. Schwartz has been a visiting member of the Computer Science Department at the University of Maryland; an adjunct professor at the Kean College, Fine Arts Department; an adjunct professor at the Rutgers University Visual Arts Department; a visiting scholar at New York University; and a Member of the Graduate Faculty of The School of Visual Arts, NYC. She has also been an Artist in Residence at Channel 13, WNET, New York. She has been a fellow of the World Academy of Science and Art since 1988.

A graveside service for Lillian will be held Thursday, October 17, 2024 at 1PM at B'nai Abraham Memorial Park, 2600 US-22 East, Union, New Jersey 07083.