Cory is well known as one of the Whitney Museum's youngest darlings.

At the age of 33 he was the youngest artist ever to get a full floor at the Whitney for new works!

While growing up in Buffalo NY, he was not only a star lacrosse goalie, but also an awesome guitarist who was obsessed by Guns N’ Roses. He pretended to be Slash for as much as 8 hours a day. After high school he went to Oberlin College and studied Classical Guitar. Snoozefest! So he ended up majoring in Electronic Music Composition instead. This might also explain his love for '00’s euro trance?

Cory was founding member of multiple geeky collectives. One of them was called BEIGE, a “programming ensemble" that meanwhile also turned into a record label. Together with Paul B. Davis and Joe B. Beuckman, he made music and hacked Nintendo cartridges. Two things Cory became very famous for. The breaking point was the 2004 Whitney Biennial, when his work “Super Mario Clouds” was on show. It was a piece where he hacked into the one of your favorite games ever, Super Mario Bros. Barbara London, associate curator at MOMA at the time, called him “one of the first in a young generation of digital hackers to really enter the art world." He went on working in many different mediums, like drawing, music, video and sculpture. Right now he even has his own clothing line called Arcangel Surfware. Comfy clothes in which you can surf the web, not the waves.

Even though he comes off a bit shy in interviews, Cory does very well on stage. Like Jerry Seinfeld (who stars in a couple of his works) he is also a celebrated stand-up comedian. During his solo show “The Sharper Image” at the Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami, they organized an art talk. It turned out this wasn't your regular old lecture, since Cory advised people to “come ready to laugh until you cry so hard you sh*t your pants”. Apparently they did.

Besides making hilarious cat videos and doing stand-up, he also masters the art of internet trolling. Where most people would never dare to admit they like Comic Sans, Cory does and it’s not even ironic. The font was more prevalent in the early nineties and that era has a special place in his heart. As part of his show at MOCA, he thought is would be funny to change the font on the website to Comic Sans.

The one thing that ties all of his art together is preserving ancient and disappearing technologies. From NES games to the Java applet “lake” they have all become relics. He also took part in a project to recover and preserve a set of electronic drawings that Andy Warhol had created in the mid-1980’s using an Amiga home computer, which is pretty effin’ awesome!