title: Yucef Merhi
text: # Yucef Merhi
  
  Yucef Merhi (born February 8, 1977) is a Venezuelan artist, poet and computer programmer based in New York.
  
  ## Early life
  
  Yucef Merhi was born in Caracas, Venezuela. He studied at Universidad Central de Venezuela, New School University, and holds a Master's in Interactive Telecommunications from New York University.
  
  ## Art career
  
  Merhi has produced a variety of works that engage electronic circuits, computers, video game systems, touch screens, and other devices in the presentation of his written words. One example is Poetic Clock, a machine that converts time into poetry, generating 86,400 different poems daily. The resulting artworks expand the limitations of language and the traditional context of poetry. His 2012 commissioned work for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Quetzalcoatl 2.0.1.2., was a web-based work that "aims to reveal the voice of Quetzalcoatl in the technological reality of 2012 A.D."
  
  ## Exhibitions
  
  * New Museum of Contemporary Art; *Bronx Museum of the Arts;
  * El Museo del Barrio;
  * Eyebeam Art and Technology Center
  * Exit Art,
  * Newark Museum
  * Orange County Museum of Art, California
  * Los Angeles County Museum of Art
  * De Appel (Amsterdam); Haus der Kulturen der Welt
  * Museo Michetti, Rome
  * Borusan Culture & Art Center, Istanbul; Paço das Artes
  * Museo del Chopo, Mexico DF
  * Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Yucatán, Yucatán
  * Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas (Caracas); Museo de Arte Contemporáneo
  * Science World, Vancouver
  * 7th International Festival of New Film, Split, Croatia
  * 2007 Bienal de São Paulo – Valencia
  * 10th Istanbul Biennial and the 30th Ljubljana Biennial of Graphic Arts.
  
  ## Permanent collections
  
  * Orange County Museum of Art California
  * National Art Gallery, Caracas
  * Library of Congress, Washington
  * Mednarodni Grafični Likovni Center MGLC, Ljubljana
  * Museo Alejandro Otero, Caracas
  * Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Caracas
  * Museo de Arte Valencia Valencia
  
  ## Awards
  
  * New York Foundation for the Arts in Digital/Electronic Arts
  