Art-o-mat machines are repurposed cigarette vending machines that dispense cigarette pack-sized artwork.^[1]

Clark Whittington installed the first Art-o-mat at an art show in June 1997 that dispensed black & white photographs for $1.00 each.^{[citation needed]}

There are over 200 machines worldwide and 400 contributing artists.^[2] In 2010, six machines were installed at the Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas.^[3]