Pindar Van Arman is an American artist and roboticist who has built artificially creative painting robots since 2005, including CrowdPainter, bitPaintr, and CloudPainter. He studied at Ohio Wesleyan University (1996) and earned a master's degree from the Corcoran School of the Arts and Design at George Washington University (2010). His CloudPainter system won first place in the international Robot Art competition in 2018, and his work has entered the permanent collection of LACMA.