Luke Haeger is an American visual artist whose work fuses autobiographical storytelling with a raw, hand-felt, touch. He was born in Paradise Valley, Montana, and subsequently lived nomadically in seven other states, across countless houses, endless schools and experiences. Haeger lived virtually every aspect of contemporary American life, which is highly felt in his work.

He studied under Barbara Kruger, Andrea Fraser, Charles Ray, and James Welling at UCLA and CalArts. Sam Durant was his advisor during his MFA at CalArts.

During his CalArts MFA, his thesis performance involved maxing out his student loans investing in highly volatile meme coins, turning some $20-30,000 into $500,000 at a high point. He tattooed the name of the most invested coin, Relevant, on his back in reference to LeBron James’s CHOSEN1 tattoo. Already versed in accelerationist theory, Haeger began befriending insiders in AI, crypto, and greater-tech–giving him a firsthand knowledge and future insight to what is playing out today in our societal and technological landscape.

Haeger is deeply hand-felt and highly humanist in nature. Combined with his knowledge and mind map, he’s an artist who is highly critical, observant, willing, and able in understanding these highly de-material times. Thus, he’s in a rare superposition to produce the most relevant physical visual art of our time.