Mac Premo makes art, commercials and short films. Born in Washington DC in 1973, Mac graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1995 and moved to New York that same year. His films and art have exhibited worldwide, including The Brooklyn Museum, the Ringling Museum, PS1 MoMA, The Invisible Dog and The New Museum. Mac has won 17 New York Emmy® Awards for his video and animation work, including awards for best commercial, photography, set design and best PSA. Sometimes he writes and performs one-man plays. Mac is a NYFA Fellow and a recent fellow of The New Institute in Hamburg, Germany. He lives in Brooklyn with his tremendous wife and two totally radical kids. And also their dog, Philomena. Artist Statement 2025 We are all going to come to an end, and we know it. If I had to choose a word for it all, I guess I’d choose ‘futile.’ But at the same time, I still like things like steak, my children, the Yankees…There’s a contradiction between our cognition of futility and our appreciation of existence.To process this conflict, we create systems, like god or Wu Tang concerts or stores. Beyond being merely an elaborate salve, these things perform imperative cooperative function and offer deep meaningful comfort. And then the complex symphony of all these systems interfacing can make things feel, well, kind of non-futile. Which is a contradiction. It just keeps fucking going. Tremendous!I want to make art that enjoys contradiction.Collage is the perfect medium for this investigation: its art about stuff we made up, made out of stuff we made up.The end.