Backslash Artist 2025
Niko Koppel is a visual journalist and multidisciplinary artist working across drawing, painting, and emerging technologies. Koppel’s recent practice centers on using 3D capture tools to digitally preserve overlooked cultural heritage and endangered histories—documenting artifacts and environments before they disappear, so they may be valued in the present and experienced by future generations.
With over a decade as a journalist at the New York Times, Koppel brings investigative rigor into more conceptual frameworks. His projects often take the form of interactive installations that merge narrative and documentary into experimental, sensory experiences. One such work reconstructed survivors’ encounters with police-involved shootings through leaked NYPD evidence files, transforming raw data into an immersive environment of memory and competing testimony.
Blending art, journalism, and technology, Koppel aims to preserve hidden stories—from the human consequences of climate change to abuses of power—provoking new ways of witnessing and understanding, both analytically and emotionally.
