#NFTNYC2023
Community Artist Showcase

aeforia

aeforia is an artist from Montreal, Canada. His work is all about colors, balance, and emotion. Blending surreal landscapes and digital portraiture, he has managed to craft a distinct style over the years and develop a keen eye for details, while focusing on the emotional impact. His work encompasses many types of artistic self-expression, such as photography, musical composition, with a heavy focus on 3D art and animation.

He began creating digital art using his phone in 2014, and has since collaborated with many brands and musicians as his style developed into intricate and colorful artworks. He has worked with companies such as Bershka, Pantone and Opera, as well as musicians like Odesza, Yung Gravy, Haywyre, Deathpact and Kidswaste.

His art now focuses on the creation of ethereal characters by utilizing digital fashion design and organic and detailed sculpting as means of expression. It is rooted in self-introspection and aeforia translates his own human experience through these abstract and otherworldly figures and surreal landscapes. An expressive yet sophisticated use of texture, color, and composition can be recognized in his visual explorations.

Andrea Bonaceto

Andrea Bonaceto (Pisa, 1989) is an Italian artist and entrepreneur. He embraced visual art as a further means to express himself together with poetry and music, ultimately aiming at binding these disciplines together into one comprehensive practice.

Bonaceto does not have a formal artistic background. He studied Economics at University of Pisa and Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna (Pisa, Italy), and Finance at Imperial College London (UK). Involved in the blockchain space since 2017 he is among the founding partners at Eterna Capital, an investment firm focused on this technology. Moreover, he is the co-founder of Aorist, a next generation cultural institution supporting a climate forward NFT marketplace, as well as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA).

Nestled at the intersection of art and technology, his artworks are created independently or in collaboration with others such as the humanoid and world-renowned Sophia The Robot, with whom Bonaceto released works in 2021. Recently, he was commissioned by Corriere della Sera to interpret through an NFT the first page of the newspaper from 1969 announcing that “Man is on the moon”.

His work has been featured in international venues and institutions such as Museo della Permanente in Milan during DART 2121, W1 Curates and Christie’s headquarters in London, Times Square and Dreamverse Gallery in New York, and Decentral Art Pavilion in Venice.

His artwork AB INFINITE 1, can update itself through the user interaction on social networks. The piece was auctioned at Christie’s prestigious “20th/21st Century: London Evening Sale” on October 13, 2022, as the only digital work in the lot.

Through the blockchain, artificial intelligence and programmable art, Bonaceto aims at conveying an interactive as well as introspective experience for the audience, highlighting throughout the journey the improvements that Web3 can bring to society.

Baeige

Baeige is a self-taught digital artist based in Vancouver. Her art reflects her appreciation for architecture, surrealist landscapes and interior design.

Bryan Brinkman

Bryan Brinkman is an award-winning multi-media artist who utilizes his career in animation and motion graphics to create fun and inventive ways to convey ideas about creative processes and the NFT space that are both approachable and appealing. His Artwork has been seen on SuperRare, NiftyGateway, Async, ArtBlocks, and more.

Carmilla

Carmilla Sumantry is an interdisciplinary artist and designer based in Vancouver, Canada. As a creative jack of all trades and trained as an industrial designer, she carries experience in a variety of fields and mediums; including furniture design, graphic design, oil painting, and digital art.

Forever gravitating towards the intersection of art and design, a pivot into the NFT art world was a natural transition. In early 2021, she began publishing and selling 1/1 3D animated artwork as NFTs. This body of work is representative of surrealist dream-states and translations of escapism, informed by design and colour theory. Each piece is an expression of personal growth, existential thought, and mindful interpersonal connection; with an intent grounded in spiritual awareness.

This new medium led to several collaboration, consulting, and community-building opportunities; as well as an enlightened passion for the potential culture-shifting power of the web3 space. Carmilla plans to continue building a diverse career as an independent creative in web3 and beyond.

Eislyn

Eislyn is an artist who enjoys illustrating friends and NFTs along with their stories and the worlds they live in. She has illustrated over 100 different NFT Projects and have collaborated with projects like HUG, CPG, and Ladybirds/Moonbirds to make illustrations featuring community members.. 

She began making digital art as a way to connect with others and explore the possibilities of storytelling with NFTs. 

The collections she has created range from personalized custom one-of-one portraits to larger-scale group murals featuring up to 50 people/NFTs.

Fernando Samalot

Fernando Samalot is a photographer and poet from Puerto Rico offering his art as a pathway to healing and transformation - he is also a @TIMEpieces Artist. 

His work explores themes such as the relationship between light and darkness, vulnerability, trust, surrender, sensuality, and softness- allowing space to honor all the different aspects that shape us into multi-dimensional beings.

Known for his use of vibrant colors, a dreamlike natural light, and interweaving bodies with landscapes, he opens up his hidden world in hopes of creating connection and allowing the viewer to tap into something deeper in themselves.

A sacred place inside us
where our love is safe to grow.

Fvckrender

Futuristic tech-digital artist Fvckrender is a self-taught creative working out of Vancouver. With a defining affinity for sharp architectural geometry, beaming future landscapes and brilliant crystalline arrangements, his renders pay a dark homage to what may eventually reflect our very existence.

Hackatao

Hackatao was born in 2007. The OG artists are among the pioneers of the international Crypto Art movement, having minted their first artwork on the blockchain back in 2018. In these early years, the duo actively participated in the construction of the cryptoverse and the NFT space. They contribute significantly to the discussion, together with other pioneer crypto artists, curators and collectors, regarding the implementation of royalties for artists on the secondary market. In 2018 Hackatao also introduced augmented reality into their practice for the first time, an umbilical cord between the physical works and the digital tokens. Before having entered the crypto sphere, the artists would also experiment with physical medium such as ceramics, drawing and painting on canvas as well as three-dimensional surfaces.

Hackatao investigate historical and pop cultural phenomena in their signature flat style, shedding light onto contemporary social, political and environmental issues and debates. Towards the end of 2021, Hackatao collaborate with NFT Studios to develop the Queens+Kings avatar series, an artistic project supported by Sotheby’s. Q+K explores and aspires to subvert the hierarchies of the PFP (profile picture) scene. The ongoing project focuses on visualizing the immense potential of web3 and the wider Metaverse, aiming to constantly involve the community in the process of creation. Q+K allows for collectors to become co-creators and dynamically transform their sovereign avatars.

Hackatao’s most recent work has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions, both physically and virtually at;ARTE MUSEUM VALLEY (Gangneung, Korea), FC Francisco Carolinum (Linz, Austria), Celestial Hermitage (State Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia), NFT.NYC (New York, USA), NFT Berlin (Berlin, Germany), Non-Fungible Conference (Lisbon, Portugal), Ca’ la Ghironda Modern Art Museum (Bologna, Italy), Sotheby’s (London, UK), Christie's (London, UK), Dreamverse (New York, USA) Museo Spazio Tadini (Milan, Italy), Musei di San Salvatore (Rome, Italy).

Josie Bellini

Josie Bellini is an acclaimed multidisciplinary digital artist and one of cryptoart’s leading pioneers. With her signature style and impassioned approach, she has become a respected titan in the NFT space and has exhibited her artworks at conferences and galleries around the world and the metaverse. Bellini’s played a considerable role in helping NFTs and digital art break into the mainstream.

Justin Aversano

Justin Aversano is a Co-Founder and CEO of Quantum Art, a platform focused on curating digital culture through NFTs. Before Quantum, Justin launched Twin Flames, a photographic collection of 100 sets of twins. Justin is also the co-founder and creative director of SaveArtSpace, a nonprofit dedicated to bringing community art to public spaces. A humanist and a social entrepreneur, Justin connects his art with the world around him through capturing moments, faces, and communities that surround him, bringing them together through the lens of his camera. Justin is currently based in Los Angeles.

Mad Dog Jones

Michah Dowbak aka Mad Dog Jones is a multidisciplinary artist from Thunder Bay, Ontario, where he still resides. His works deftly interweave cyberpunk, dystopian imagery exploring themes of beauty, nature and technology. As a lover of the wilderness, which was ever present where he grew up, he brings a fresh thematic to the metropolitan aesthetic, done up in citrus and neon tones of technology somehow rendered as a space naturally human. Dowbak rose to fame in the world of crypto art with the recent success of his Crash + Burn series of NFT artworks, and he is now a headliner in the first major NFT art exhibition at UCCA Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing.

Monica Rizzolli

Monica Rizzolli released in 2021 two series of NFTs: “Tropical Garden” (multiple marketplaces) and the generative “Fragments of an Infinite Field” through Art Blocks. She has exhibited in the US (MAK Center’s Artists and Architects, LA), Brazil, Germany, China, and Spain. Awards include MAK Schindler Scholarship (MAK Vienna) and Sweet Home (Hablarenarte, Madrid). She is a surface designer at Contrast Studio and a type designer at Just in Type foundry. She designed typefaces like Tomorrow, available at Google Fonts, and organizes projects such as Noite de Processing, a monthly meeting about code art since 2016, and Processing Community Day Brasil. Born in São Carlos, Rizzolli attended the IA-UNESP (Fine Arts, São Paulo, Brazil) and the Kunsthochschule Kassel (Drawing, Kassel, Germany). She lives and works in Portugal.

Ness Graphics

25 year old digital artist Alex Ness works in a wide range of modern media, known primarily for his mastery of 3D animation, modeling, and design. From the age of 12, Ness gravitated towards the use of technology to captivate his audience through digital story telling at varying scale, showcasing his visual art alongside award-winning musicians at globally prominent events and shows. Ness weaves in soothing undertones of dystopian and cyberpunk timelessness into his work, and is widely respected as a thought leader in the NFT world.

Ola

Ola Volo is a muralist and illustrator out of Montreal. Volo's signature style blends in folklore from her Eastern European roots with a focus on pattern and narrative to depict scenes of wonder.

OSF

Ovie Faruq, better known as OSF, is a crypto artist, collector and co-founder of multiple NFT projects including Canary Labs, rektguy and Degenz. Having spent a decade working as a credit trader in both London and NYC, OSF quit Wall Street to go full-time web3. His claims to fame include minting 150 Bored Apes and selling art to Snoop Dogg.

Six n Five

Six N. Five is the studio of Ezequiel Pini’s work, an award-winning Argentinian designer and digital artist based in Barcelona.

Over the last decade, Pini has pioneered the use of 3D to create imaginary, dreamlike worlds with his signature clean, modern aesthetic, making Six N. Five one of today’s most recognized digital artists. His work incorporates different mediums to explore imaginary spaces, moving stories and physical collectibles.

His extensive experience working with esteemed brands and artists includes several exhibitions in Art Basel, Moco Museum, Fotografiska Stockholm, Museo della Permanente, and the recent creation of Microsoft Windows 11 and Microsoft Surface wallpapers.

His refined imagination, poetic compositions, avant-garde mind, and elegant skills make Six N. Five stand out for its uniqueness and purity of results.

Slimesunday

Slimesunday is a viral digital collage artist who constructs surreal, often unsettling compositions out of digital photographs to broach questions of censorship, consumerism, sexuality, and religion. Consistently ranked in the top 10 highest earning artists in the NFT space, their work can be found in Playboy, Hunger, Vice, Plastik, and Glamour Magazine. Slimesunday's What The Fork? collection debuted in NY with Phillips auction house last year, selling both physical and digital works. The artist's star-studded resume includes projects with J. Cole, Lana Del Rey, Katy Perry, J Balvin, and Beck. Slimesunday is also the art director for 3LAU and makes up half of the audio-visual project SSX3LAU whose piece “FACES" remains the #1 Most Popular NFT on Nifty Gateway since its release in early 2021. Slimesunday earned their BA in Psychology from Salem State University. The artist lives and works in Salem, MA.

Trevor Jones

Trevor Jones graduated from Edinburgh University and Edinburgh College of Art with an MA Fine Art in 2008. From 2008 – 2015 he was the Director of the Scottish charity Art in Healthcare and teacher at Leith School of Art. Trevor has been working at the intersection of art and technology for over a decade working with QR codes from 2011 and in 2013 he was one of the first painters in the world to explore augmented reality.

 

Trevor's work connects the long tradition and history of painting with the world of innovation & technology including AR, cryptocurrency, social media and NFTs. He’s been a pioneer in the cryptoart space since the end of 2017 and has established himself as one of the most successful traditional to digital, crossover artists with record breaking drops on SuperRare, Makersplace, AsyncArt, KnownOrigin and Niftygateway.

Tyler Hobbs

Tyler Hobbs is a visual artist from Austin, Texas who works primarily with algorithms, plotters, and paint. His artwork focuses on computational aesthetics, how they are shaped by the biases of modern computer hardware and software, and how they relate to and interact with the natural world around us. Tyler develops and programs custom algorithms that are used to generate visual imagery. Often, these strike a balance between the cold, hard structure that computers excel at, and the messy, organic chaos we can observe in the natural world around us.

Tyler’s work has been shown internationally, and has been collected in more than a dozen countries around the world.

Victor Mosquera

Born in 1989, Victor Mosquera is a Colombian-born, Vancouver, B.C.-based artist creating works influenced by psychedelia and the ethereal intersection between consciousness and the subliminal. His artworks have been exhibited at Christie’s, Sotheby’s and several contemporary galleries and art fairs around the world. His unique and immediately recognizable style also led him to work with a variety of musicians, festivals, films, brands and video games.