Photo: Christian Oth
BREAKFAST is a kinetic sculptor based at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Since 2009, he has created over 250 works installed across 12 countries — from intimate collector editions to 53-foot landmark installations.
His work transforms invisible forces — ocean data, carbon emissions, wind patterns, human movement — into physical, mechanical motion. No screens. No projectors. Thousands of individually controlled elements driven by custom electronics and proprietary software, all designed and built in-house.
BREAKFAST is the artist name of Andrew Zolty. Like KAWS or Banksy, the name is the work. Behind it is a 17-person team of engineers, fabricators, and software developers — but the creative vision is his.
"I take the tack of pulling people in by presenting them something they've unlikely ever seen before — a piece that is alive and physically moving. Once I have them there, it's easier to present the deeper story behind the piece. You have to earn people's attention, and then you can share something meaningful."BREAKFAST
BREAKFAST operates out of the Brooklyn Navy Yard — a studio where every aspect of a work is conceived, engineered, and built. Nothing is outsourced. The team designs custom circuit boards, writes proprietary software, fabricates structural components, and assembles each piece by hand.
This isn't a traditional art studio. It's closer to a research lab that happens to produce sculpture. The team includes electrical engineers, mechanical engineers, full-stack developers, industrial designers, and skilled fabricators — each contributing to works that blur the line between art and technology.
The result is total creative control. From the first sketch to final installation, everything passes through the same hands and the same building. It's how BREAKFAST can push into territory that most artists and most technology companies can't reach alone.
Art Dubai — Julius Baer commission: Infinite Ripples of Generosity, main entrance installation
Frieze London — Solo exhibition, The Chancery Rosewood Hotel, Mayfair. Art Dubai — Carbon Wake debut (7-meter Brixel sculpture). NVIDIA GTC — Featured speaker
Venice Biennale — Interwoven Existence, Grenada Pavilion. First interactive kinetic artwork at the Biennale. The Pearl installed — world's largest kinetic sculpture at 53 feet
Fontainebleau Las Vegas — Oceans, permanent installation. Rockefeller Center — Time Capsule Over Manhattan
Tiffany & Co. — Installations in NYC, Dubai, Seoul. NEOM — Installation in Saudi Arabia
World Expo Dubai. CPA Senovva, Istanbul — 70-foot-wide installation. Meow Wolf
Harvard University. Equinox HQ, Hudson Yards
Christie's — Svalbard Ice in "First Open | Post-War and Contemporary Art" auction
BREAKFAST begins. First circuit board etched by hand in a tiny Brooklyn studio
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