{"data":{"id":"9443","type":"artist","attributes":{"id":9443,"topgoose_id":6206,"tms_id":9443,"display_name":"Ken Perlin","sort_name":"Perlin Ken","display_date":"1957–","begin_date":"1957","end_date":"0","biography":"\u003cp class=\"large\"\u003eKen Perlin (b. 1958; Bronx, New York) works in a range of mediums, including multi-participant extended reality, computer graphics, animation, and user interfaces. He is a professor at New York University, where he directs the Future Reality Lab. He received an Academy Award for Technical Achievement in 1996 from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Other awards and honors include membership in the ACM SIGGRAPH Academy; the 2020 New York Visual Effects Society Empire Award; the 2008 ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics Achievement Award; the TrapCode [Creative] Award for achievement in computer graphics research (2006); the New York City Mayor’s Award for excellence in science and technology (2002); the Margaret and Herman Sokol Award for outstanding science faculty at New York University (2002); and a Presidential Young Investigator Award from the National Science Foundation (1991).\u003c/p\u003e","on_view":true,"artport":true,"biennial":false,"collection":true,"ulan_id":null,"wikidata_id":null,"created_at":"2023-11-17T18:10:29.199-05:00","updated_at":"2026-04-09T12:30:08.750-04:00","links":{"artworks":"/api/artists/9443/artworks","exhibitions":"/api/artists/9443/exhibitions"}}}}