Yucef Merhi

Yucef Merhi (born February 8, 1977) is a Venezuelan artist, poet and computer programmer based in New York.

Early life and education Yucef Merhi was born in Caracas, Venezuela. He studied at Universidad Central de Venezuela, New School 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, California, 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."

In 2025, Merhi's work was featured in 2025 Intertidal, the biennial digital art exhibition organized by the Pérez Art Museum Miami video art streaming platform, known as PAMMTV. 2025 Intertidal showcases the work of five South Florida artists working across digital media.

Permanent collections Orange County Museum of Art, California Museum of Modern Art, New York National Art Gallery, Caracas Library of Congress, Washington DC Mednarodni Grafični Likovni Center MGLC, Ljubljana Museo Alejandro Otero, Caracas, Venezuela Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Caracas, Venezuela Museo de Arte Valencia, Valencia Pérez Art Museum Miami, Florida

Awards In 2020, Merhi was awarded the MIT Open Documentary Lab Fellowship. He is also a recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts in Digital/Electronic Arts.