[3] Founded as an editorial collective in 2007, Triple Canopy currently consists of a staff of editors, writers, artists, researchers, designers, and web developers based in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Minneapolis, Mexico City, and Berlin.
[4] Due to the presentation of substantive, carefully edited material that is designed to be read and viewed online, and makes use of the characteristics of the browser, Triple Canopy's work has been referred to as "the sort of stuff people say is not happening on the internet.
Triple Canopy has organized numerous public programs and participated in residencies in New York, Los Angeles,[23][24] Mexico City,[25] Chicago,[26] Tucson,[27] Paris, Berlin, Sarajevo,[28][29] Turin,[30] and elsewhere.
Until 2017, Triple Canopy shared a space in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, with film and electronic art venue Light Industry[31] and open-source educational program The Public School New York.
"[35] In a Financial Times article naming the five best art magazines, frieze editorial director Jennifer Higgie wrote that Triple Canopy “lets you watch videos, is not limited by word or page length, and can be read simultaneously by people anywhere in the world.