Los Angeles-based artist Glenn Kaino creates sculptures that show a fascination with Rube Goldberg machines, history, and quantum physics. Kaino's often-humorous conceptual objects and installations attract the viewer with immediately recognizable forms that comment on their surroundings and engage a large network of cultural references. In his work, Kaino often demonstrates affinities between seemingly unrelated ideas.

MCASD has commissioned Kaino to create new works for the Cerca Series. Revolving around the premise that "Laws are Made for Rogues," Kaino will create installations dealing with issues of individual versus group identity and aesthetic style as a form of social commentary, using ninjas, pirates, and Zapatistas as his protagonists.

Kaino was born and raised in Los Angeles. He received his B.A. from the University of California, Irvine and his M.F.A. from the University of California, San Diego. Kaino’s work has been shown at the Asia Society, New York; Whitney Biennial at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Bronx Museum of the Arts; The Studio Museum, New York; and The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis. He was a co-founder of Deep River Gallery in Los Angeles, a pioneering artist-run exhibition space, was Chief Creative officer of Napster, and has taught at UCLA and USC.