Mark Lombardi

Mark Lombardi (1951-2000) was an American artist best known for his intricate, large-scale drawings that visualized complex networks of financial and political corruption, conspiracy, and power structures through carefully researched diagrams resembling abstract art. His "narrative structures," as he called them, documented connections between banks, governments, corporations, and individuals involved in scandals such as BCCI, Iran-Contra, and the savings and loan crisis, creating an influential form of information visualization. Lombardi's work has been exhibited posthumously at major museums including the Whitney Museum and MoMA, and gained renewed attention for its prescient mapping of networks later connected to terrorism and global financial crimes.