Biography
Kevin Mack is a pioneering Digital Artist and Academy Award winning Visual Effects Designer. He received the Oscar for his work on the film "What Dreams May Come". For a complete filmography, see the Kevin Mack IMDB page
Mack's fine art is focused on philosophical, spiritual and scientific imponderables. His goal is to create compelling psychoactive objects and media that inspire contemplation and a transpersonal experience of awe and mystery.
The son of Disney artists, Kevin was drawing and painting before he could talk. At 16, he received a scholarship for drawing classes at Art Center College of Design. At 18, he was accepted into the college program, where he studied Fine Art, Illustration and Film.
After college, Mack supported his experimental art and music by working in the film industry doing traditional glass matte painting, scenic painting, sculpting, model making, animation, storyboards, concept art and set design for commercials and movies.
In the mid-eighties, Kevin began experimenting with computers to make his art and music. Recognizing it's potential for film work, he helped pioneer the use of computer graphics for visual effects and became a creative leader in the digital revolution. In 2007 he received an honorary Doctorate of Science degree from Art Center for his contributions to the field of motion picture visual effects.
Mack's work is informed by research in a wide range of fields from neuroscience to quantum physics. His work in artificial life and rule based systems, used on "What Dreams May Come" and "Fight Club", inspired the development of tissue simulation software that has been used in virtual stem cell research. In 2006, Mack received the title of Honorary Neuroscientist, from UCLA's David Geffen School of Medicine, for his lectures there on perception, visualization and creativity. In 2012 Kevin worked with physicists at CERN on the visualization of recent discoveries in particle physics.
Kevin's fine art has been exhibited at The Copro Gallery, The Brett Wesley Gallery, The 2012 Extreme Futurist Festival, The Laguna Art Museum, Carnegie Melon University, Siggraph Art Gallery and Animation Festival, Flower Pepper Gallery, The Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, The Barbara Mendes Gallery, Banzai!!! in NYC, Visual Amalgam, The Hive and various LA art events.
Kevin is a native of Los Angeles, California, where he lives with his wife, artist Snow Mack. They have two sons, Jon Mack and Ray Mack, both of whom are artists. Jon works in visual effects and Ray is a musician, composer and music producer.
Mack's fine art is focused on philosophical, spiritual and scientific imponderables. His goal is to create compelling psychoactive objects and media that inspire contemplation and a transpersonal experience of awe and mystery.
The son of Disney artists, Kevin was drawing and painting before he could talk. At 16, he received a scholarship for drawing classes at Art Center College of Design. At 18, he was accepted into the college program, where he studied Fine Art, Illustration and Film.
After college, Mack supported his experimental art and music by working in the film industry doing traditional glass matte painting, scenic painting, sculpting, model making, animation, storyboards, concept art and set design for commercials and movies.
In the mid-eighties, Kevin began experimenting with computers to make his art and music. Recognizing it's potential for film work, he helped pioneer the use of computer graphics for visual effects and became a creative leader in the digital revolution. In 2007 he received an honorary Doctorate of Science degree from Art Center for his contributions to the field of motion picture visual effects.
Mack's work is informed by research in a wide range of fields from neuroscience to quantum physics. His work in artificial life and rule based systems, used on "What Dreams May Come" and "Fight Club", inspired the development of tissue simulation software that has been used in virtual stem cell research. In 2006, Mack received the title of Honorary Neuroscientist, from UCLA's David Geffen School of Medicine, for his lectures there on perception, visualization and creativity. In 2012 Kevin worked with physicists at CERN on the visualization of recent discoveries in particle physics.
Kevin's fine art has been exhibited at The Copro Gallery, The Brett Wesley Gallery, The 2012 Extreme Futurist Festival, The Laguna Art Museum, Carnegie Melon University, Siggraph Art Gallery and Animation Festival, Flower Pepper Gallery, The Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, The Barbara Mendes Gallery, Banzai!!! in NYC, Visual Amalgam, The Hive and various LA art events.
Kevin is a native of Los Angeles, California, where he lives with his wife, artist Snow Mack. They have two sons, Jon Mack and Ray Mack, both of whom are artists. Jon works in visual effects and Ray is a musician, composer and music producer.
