Spencer Finch (b. Connecticut, 1962) lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. He studied at the Rhode Island School of Design, Hamilton College, and Doshisha University in Kyoto, Japan. Finch has exhibited internationally since the early 1990s, and recently completed large scale public projects at the Harvey Milk Terminal at The San Francisco Airport (Orion) and at the Paddington Crossrail Station in London (A Cloud index). His upcoming installations include Secret Life of Glass at the Corning Museum and  Moon Dust, a long term installation at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston. His solo museum exhibitions include A Certain Slant of Light at The Morgan Library in New York City in 2014, The Skies can’t keep their secret at the Turner Contemporary Museum in Margate, UK in 2014, Following Nature at the Indianapolis Museum of Art in 2013, Painting Air at the Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art in 2012, Lunar at the Art Institute Chicago in 2012, My Business, with the Cloud at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, DC in 2010, and What Time Is It On The Sun? at MASS MoCA in 2007. Finch was included in the 2009 Venice Biennale exhibition, Making Worlds, and the 2004 Whitney Biennial.

His public projects include The River that Flows Both Ways for The High Line in New York City (2009), the glass facade design for the Johns Hopkins Medical Center in Baltimore (2012), Vital Signs for Quadrant 3 in London (2013), Trying to remember the color of the sky on that September morning or the 9/11 Memorial Museum in New York City (2014), and  When You Look on the River and Sky (2019) as part of the Whitman at 200 celebration in Philadelphia. His work is held in numerous museum collections including the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; the Glasgow Museum of Art, Glasgow; the High Museum of Art, Atlanta; the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC; the Morgan Library, New York; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt; the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; and the Whitney Museum, New York.