Jeffrey Alan Scudder

Bio

Jeffrey Alan Scudder (b. 1989, Assonet, MA) is a painter based in Los Angeles. His work moves between stretched canvas, custom software, and live performance, treating painting as a practice that extends across surfaces and systems.

Scudder builds his own tools for making images. Aesthetic.Computer is a creative computing platform he designed as an instrument for drawing, painting, and interaction. NoPaint.art, an earlier project, reimagined the paint program as a medium rather than a utility. These tools inform his studio paintings and vice versa—code becomes a way to think about color, gesture, and composition, while painting on canvas stays immediate and physical.

With Whistlegraph, a collaborative performance practice with Camille Klein and Alex Freundlich, Scudder has performed at the New Museum, Pioneer Works, ZKM Karlsruhe, and dozens of venues across the US and Europe. The group's work treats drawing as a live, social act.

He has given over 65 lectures and performances on Radical Digital Painting internationally, including at the Chaos Communication Congress, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, and in conversation with Casey Reas at bitforms gallery. His work is in the collections of KADIST (San Francisco) and SMK (National Gallery of Denmark). He received the inaugural Hash Award from ZKM Karlsruhe in 2018.

Scudder holds a BFA in Fine Art from Ringling College of Art and Design (2011) and an MFA in Sculpture from Yale School of Art (2013). He has taught at UCLA, Parsons The New School for Design, and Southern Oregon University. In Spring 2026, he is Author in Residence at UCLA's Social Software studio with Casey Reas. He also demos biweekly at NELA Computer Club, a biweekly demo night at Plot.Place in Chinatown, Los Angeles.