The Spring 2025 Leslie and Brad Bucher Artist-in-Residence is Trevor Paglen, an interdisciplinary artist whose work ranges from image-making and writing to investigative journalism and engineering. His innovative collaborations include launching an artwork into Earth's orbit with Creative Time and MIT; contributing research and cinematography to the Academy Award-winning film Citizenfour; and creating a radioactive public sculpture for the exclusion zone in Fukushima, Japan. Image Operations, Op.10 (2018), Paglen's video installation that explored bias in machine-learning algorithms, was shown in the Moody's exhibition Soundwaves: Strategies in Art + Music  and subsequently acquired by the Museum of Fine Art, Houston for their permanent collection.

Earning a B.A. from U.C. Berkeley, an MFA from the Art Institute of Chicago, and a Ph.D. in Geography from U.C. Berkeley, Paglen was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2017. He received the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Pioneer Award and Deutsche Börse Photography Prize. Paglen's solo shows include exhibitions at the Smithsonian Museum of American Art, Washington D.C.; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; Fondazione Prada, Milan; the Barbican Centre, London; Vienna Secession, Vienna; and Protocinema Istanbul. A prolific writer, his books include The Last Picture (2012) and Archives of Peter Merlin, Aviation Archaeologist (2019), among others.