Chris Dorland - Robert Hobbs

Discover Chris Dorland: Future Ruins, the first monograph on the acclaimed artist, featuring a major essay by renowned art historian Robert Hobbs. Published by Hirmer in Spring 2026, this volume delves into Dorland's fusion of digital media and painting, exploring themes of technological decay and post-capitalist aesthetics. Future Ruins explores the cutting-edge vision of Chris Dorland in his debut monograph, the definitive introduction to the acclaimed artist’s dystopian digital aesthetic: a fusion of digital media and painting, exploring themes of technological decay and post-capitalist aesthetics. With a groundbreaking text by leading art historian Robert Hobbs, this richly illustrated volume captures Dorland’s hybrid process—blending digital distortion, surveillance aesthetics, and glitch technologies into a singular, cinematic language. This is a vital document of a practice at the edge of image culture and collapse and is essential for collectors, critics, and curators of postdigital, new media, and contemporary painting.
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