NEW YORKERS · THE HONORARIES

The Honor­aries.

Every real person MLow has painted into NEW YORKERS, in one room: the artists and collectors of his world, the guests of The MLow Show, and the musicians, athletes, chefs, writers and mayors who make New York what it is. 445 people, 452 paintings, and counting.

190 Artists · 52 Collectors · 50 Founders · 26 Media · 58 Music · 10 Film and stage · 17 Fashion · 17 Sport · 5 Food · 20 Civic

Artists

190 people

  • Aaron Penne

    @aaronpenne

    Generative artist behind Apparitions and Rapture, known for fine line forms that seem to hover. Code that draws ghosts

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  • Adamtastic

    @Adamtastic

    Digital painter of sleepy round characters, small birds and starry skies in glowing teal and violet. Soft art, loud color

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  • Addie Wagenknecht

    @wheresaddie

    New media artist working with hacked hardware, circuit boards and paintings made by Roomba. The machine holds the brush

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  • Alfred Steiner

    @alfredsteiner

    Artist and intellectual property lawyer who collages familiar cartoon figures into new ones. The lawyer knows where the lines are

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  • All Seeing Seneca

    @allseeingseneca

    Painter of Sugar Noirism, surreal girls and creatures framed in ornate folk borders. Sweet surface, sharp teeth

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  • Alpha Centauri Kid

    @lphaCentauriKid

    An artist and collector painted by MLow as a gold skeleton playing keys in a Harlem room. Bones play, the room listens

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  • Amber Vittoria

    @amber_vittoria

    Artist painting looping ribbons of color by hand and on screen, with editions over one of ones. The errors stay in on purpose

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  • Amrit Pal

    @amritpaldesign

    Digital artist known for stylized portraits with a designer's control of line and color. A face, edited to its essence

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  • Andre Oshea

    @andreoshea

    Digital artist building glossy animated worlds of cherry blossom roads and drifting classic cars. Motion blur as a mood

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  • Andrés Del Vecchio

    @andresdelvecc

    Painter working in a dark Venezuelan surrealist mode of skulls crowned with flowers and angels at card tables. Gold leaf over the shadow

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  • Andrés Reisinger

    @reisingerandres

    Designer of the soft pink Hortensia chair, first imagined in digital form and later made real. The render came first

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  • Andy Warhol

    NEW YORKERS NO. 0488

    Pop artist who ran the Factory and turned soup cans and celebrities into icons. Fifteen minutes each, the century for him

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  • Anna Condo

    @annacondo

    Photographer behind Portraits from the Blockchain, a record of the people in crypto art. Faces behind the handles

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  • Anna Lucia

    @annaluciacodes

    Artist who writes code to generate woven textiles. The loom was always a computer

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  • Anne Spalter

    @annespalter

    One of the first academic digital artists to go on chain, known for kaleidoscopic AI cityscapes. Skylines folded into symmetry

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  • Ayla El-Moussa

    @aylaelmoussa

    Photographer who dissolves self portraits into soft painterly abstraction. The body, turned to marble

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  • Batzdu

    @batzdu

    Painter of surreal Pepe the Frog landscapes in glossy seventies airbrush and old master collage. The meme became scenery

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  • Beeple

    @beeple

    Made a 3D render every day, and Everydays sold for $69 million at Christie's. The habit was the work

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  • Ben Kovach

    @bendotk

    Generative artist behind 100 PRINT, stacked patterns grown from code. One line of logic, endless prints

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  • Betty

    @betty_nft

    A pseudonymous artist and co founder of Deadfellaz, the green zombie collection. The undead built a crowd

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  • Bill Cunningham

    NEW YORKERS NO. 0630

    New York Times photographer who rode a bicycle through Manhattan shooting what people actually wore. The street was the runway

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  • BLAC

    @blac_ai

    Artist making dark AI assisted surrealism of veiled figures and bursts of light. Prompting as a language

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  • Blake Jamieson

    @blakejamieson

    Pop art painter who reimagined baseball cards for the Topps Project 70 series. The card became the canvas

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  • Blake Kathryn

    @blakekathryn

    3D artist who builds iridescent dreamscapes of glass figures and soft light. Rendered, yet dreamed

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  • Bosslogic

    @Bosslogic

    Digital painter known for cinematic pop culture artwork and film posters. Fan art at studio scale

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  • Bradley Theodore

    @bradleytheodore

    Painter of skull faced fashion icons in bright color, from street walls to galleries. Style outlives the face

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  • Brendan Dawes

    @brendandawes

    Artist who turns data into generative prints and sculptures. Numbers, given a shape

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  • Brittany Pierre

    @bpierre_photo

    Street photographer documenting Black life from the Bronx to Chicago. The sidewalk as archive

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  • Brutal.Eth

    @BrutalS81

    Artist working in de/generative abstraction, with textures that look like carved circuitry. Code with a chisel

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  • Bryan Brinkman

    @bryanbrinkman

    Emmy winning animator from SNL and the Tonight Show who makes bold candy colored digital pop. One palette, instantly his

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  • Buff Monster

    @buffmonster

    Lower East Side street artist famous for pink, melting ice cream monsters. Sweet, then it drips

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  • Carla Gannis

    @carlagannis

    Artist behind The Garden of Emoji Delights, a digital remix of Bosch. Heaven and hell, now on screens

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  • Casey Reas

    @reas

    Cocreated Processing so artists could write code, and makes abstract software drawings of chaotic line. The tools outlive the trends

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  • Cath Simard

    @cathsimard

    Photographer known for dramatic landscapes of mountains, water and light. The view, sharpened into a vision

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  • CharlesAI

    @HODLFrance

    Artist who uses AI to make renders that read like old master oil paintings of cities and portals. New tools, old light

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  • Chikai Ohazama

    @lifeofc

    Collector turned artist who makes cinematic AI assisted stills and dense interior photographs. The collector crossed the room

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  • Claire Silver

    @ClaireSilver12

    Artist who works with AI as a collaborator, painted here as her avatar in a SoHo loft. The dream sat for the portrait

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  • Coldie

    @Coldie

    Stereoscopic 3D artist behind the Decentral Eyes portraits, torn photo faces in red and cyan. Put the glasses on

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  • Cory Van Lew

    @coryvanlew

    Painter of neon pop portraits with bold outlines. Loud color, clean line

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  • Damjanski

    @damjanski

    Conceptual artist working with AI to make images that question the system that made them. The prompt is the critique

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  • Daniel Arsham

    @danielarsham

    Sculptor of future relics, casting everyday objects in eroded plaster and crystal. The present, excavated

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  • Danny Cole

    @dannycole

    Artist behind Creature World, soft cartoon creatures living in dreamy pastel worlds. Gentle on purpose, and built to stay

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  • Darkfarms

    @Darkfarms1

    Meme artist who draws Pepe in thick black line and grainy color, including the Book of Meme. Crude line, deep lore

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  • Dave Krugman

    @dave_krugman

    New York street and night photographer who founded the Allships community. Money moves value, people make it

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  • David Henry Nobody Jr

    davidhenrynobodyjr on IG

    Performance artist who buries his own head in food, toys and junk for the camera. He calls it resemblage

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  • Derrick Adams

    @derrickadamsny

    Brooklyn painter of Black leisure, known for flat geometric figures on bright pool floats. Rest as a radical act

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  • Des Lucréce

    @deslucrece

    Artist who paints chaotic hordes of cartoon monsters in loud colour. Chaos, carefully arranged

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  • Diana Sinclair

    @itsdianasinclair

    Photographer and curator behind Digital Diaspora, making intimate portraits of Black youth in soft light. Young eye, long view

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  • Diane Arbus

    NEW YORKERS NO. 0489

    Photographer who turned her square frame on the people New York looked past. She stared so the city would too

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  • Die With The Most Likes

    @toadswiback

    Draws bloated figures glued to their phones among fast food and flies in nervous line. The feed, drawn honest

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  • Dmitri Cherniak

    @dmitricherniak

    Generative artist behind Ringers, strings wound around pegs in minimal compositions. Infinite variations, one idea

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  • Driftershoots

    @driftershoots

    Photographer who climbs bridges and cranes to shoot New York from the very top. Vertigo as viewpoint

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  • Eclectic Method

    @EclecticMethod

    Video remix act that chops film, politics and viral clips to the beat, now with AI music videos. Sampling the whole screen

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  • Efdot

    @efdot

    Muralist who paints bold abstract shapes and playful geometry across city walls. Walls as open canvas

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  • Elise Swopes

    @swopes

    Photographer and digital artist who makes surreal city composites with giraffes and waterfalls. The skyline, rewilded and set loose

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  • Emily Xie

    @emilyxie

    Generative artist who stitches wave, flower and textile patterns out of code. Old patterns, new looms

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  • Emonee LaRussa

    @emoneelarussa

    Motion graphics artist recognized with an Emmy for her animated work. Dreams at thirty frames a second

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  • Ezra Miller

    @ezramiller

    Generative artist behind Solvency, fluid WebGL light rendered live in the browser. Light that never repeats

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  • FEWOCiOUS

    @fewocious

    Painter who became one of the youngest stars of crypto art with bright, expressive figures. The diary went public

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  • Frank Ape

    @frankape

    Street artist whose round eyed, friendly cartoon ape shows up on walls across New York. A smile on every block

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  • Futura

    @futuradosmil

    New York graffiti pioneer known for abstract atoms and airbrushed spray lines. Letters gave way to space

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  • Fvckrender

    @fvckrender

    3D artist behind Lvcidia, crystal landscapes of glossy black shards. Cold glass, warm dream

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  • Golan Levin

    @golan

    New York born artist and creative coding pioneer known for interactive generative forms. Software that plays back

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  • Gordon Parks

    NEW YORKERS NO. 0490

    Photographer, filmmaker and writer who shot for Life and directed Shaft. A camera held like a weapon

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  • Grant Yun

    @GrantYun2

    Illustrator who draws American suburbs and farm grids in a clean neo precisionist style. The ordinary, from above

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  • Gremplin

    @gremplin

    Pseudonymous artist behind CrypToadz and a founding member of Nouns. Pixel toads, serious fun

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  • Guido Di Salle

    @GuidoDisalle

    Photographer of grainy, high flash fashion and figure work in hard black and white and saturated violet. Flash as mood

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  • Hackatao

    @hackatao

    The artist duo behind Queens+Kings, painted here as their queen avatar. Two hands, one crown

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  • Hans Dehlinger

    @hansdehlinger

    Pen plotter pioneer who builds hatched volumes and mountain bands from thousands of fine lines. The machine draws slow

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  • Helena Sarin

    @neuralbricolage

    Artist who trains GANs on her own drawings to grow botanicals and ceramics, calling it neural bricolage. The machine learns her hand

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  • Iskra Velitchkova

    @iskra_velitchkova

    Generative artist who grows soft gardens and fields from code. Algorithms that bloom

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  • Ivona Tau

    @ivonatau

    Artist using machine learning on her own photographs to make dreamlike, blurred images. Memory, retrained by a machine

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  • Ix Shells

    @ixshells

    Generative artist behind Dreaming at Dusk, soft flowing fields in dusk gradients. The hour between day and night

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  • Jack Butcher

    @jackbutcher

    Founder of Visualize Value and the artist behind Checks and Opepen, working in stark black on white. Less ink, more signal

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  • Jake Fried

    @jakejfried

    Animator who draws entire films in ink and white out on a single sheet. One page, every frame

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  • Jason Naylor

    @jasonnaylornyc

    Muralist who paints electric multicolor walls and positive graphics across the city. Optimism in spray paint

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  • Jean-Michel Basquiat

    NEW YORKERS NO. 0486

    Downtown painter who went from SAMO tags on walls to museum walls. The crown outlived the kid

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  • Jeff Davis

    @jeffgdavis

    Generative artist creating color field work on Art Blocks. The algorithm paints in light

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  • Jeff Koons

    @jeffkoons

    Maker of the mirror polished balloon animals, whose Moon Phases put sculptures on the moon. Chrome went to space

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  • Jen Stark

    @jenstark

    Artist known for rainbow paper sculptures and dripping colour works. Layers cut by hand

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  • Jeremy Cohen

    @jerm_cohen

    Brooklyn photographer who asked out a neighbor across the rooftops by drone during the 2020 lockdown. The whole city watched the date

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  • John Watkinson

    @pents90

    Cofounder of Larva Labs, the studio behind CryptoPunks and Autoglyphs. Small pixels, long shadow

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  • Jon Burgerman

    @jonburgerman

    Artist whose squiggly doodle characters cover walls, books and screens in bright color. Serious about silly

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  • Joshua Davis

    @joshuadavis

    Generative art pioneer behind praystation since the early Flash era. Code that blooms

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  • Josie Bellini

    @josiebellini

    Painter of Filter, the gas mask girl, and early crypto lore in neon. Masks on, eyes open

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  • Julie Pacino

    @juliepacino

    Photographer and filmmaker behind Keepers of the Inn, a series of dreamlike hotel rooms. Every room holds a story

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  • Justin Aversano

    @justinaversano

    Photographer behind Twin Flames, a hundred portraits of twins, and founder of Quantum Art. Two faces, one frame

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  • Justin BUA

    @justinbua

    Figurative painter who stretches hip hop bodies at the turntables into long, rhythmic forms. The beat, drawn tall

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  • KATSU

    @katsubots

    A masked graffiti artist who paints with drones and tags in marks without letters. The can learned to fly

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  • KAWS

    @kaws

    Brooklyn artist whose Companion, the grey figure with crossed out eyes, became a global icon. X marks the fame

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  • Keith Haring

    NEW YORKERS NO. 0487

    Chalked radiant babies and barking dogs onto empty subway ad panels in the 1980s. The platform was the first gallery

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  • Kenny Schachter

    @kennyschachter

    Artnet columnist and NFTism curator who makes chaotic digital collage self portraits. Loudest voice, messiest room

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  • Kenny Scharf

    @kennyscharf

    East Village pop surrealist known for candy colored cartoon faces and the Cosmic Cavern. Fun, taken very seriously

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  • Kevin Abosch

    @kevinabosch

    Conceptual artist behind Forever Rose and IAMA Coin. The rose that cannot wilt

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  • Kevin McCoy

    @mccoyspace

    Artist who minted Quantum in 2014, widely cited as the first NFT. The token walked out before the market walked in

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  • Killian Moore

    @killianmoore_

    Photographer who shoots the street in strong colour and collects MLow's work. Both sides of the lens

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  • Kjetil Golid

    @kgolid

    Generative artist whose Archetype on Art Blocks builds colored grid structures from code. Order, then surprise

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  • Krista Kim

    @krista_kim

    Artist behind Mars House, a digital home of gradient light, and the idea she calls techism. Rooms made of calm

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  • Laolu Senbanjo

    @laolunyc

    Brooklyn artist whose Afromysterics line work covers skin, walls and canvas. Any surface can speak

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  • Lauren Lee McCarthy

    @laurenleemack

    Artist who created p5.js and performed as a human Alexa in homes for her work LAUREN. The smart home had a person inside

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  • Leo Villareal

    @leovillareal

    Light artist whose LED works include Buckyball and Illuminated River. Code you can see from across the river

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  • Licia He

    @liciahe

    Artist who uses pen plotters to lay down watercolor paintings line by line. The machine wets the brush

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  • Lindsey Byrnes

    @LindseyByrnes

    Film photographer of coastlines, desert roads and musicians in late gold light. The sun did the editing

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  • LoVid

    @lovidlovid

    An artist duo turning analog video signals into textiles, stitched canvases and mirrored grids. Signal you can touch

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  • Mad Dog Jones

    @maddogjones

    Artist of neon cyberpunk cities whose Replicator makes copies of itself over time. The work breeds

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  • Marco Brambilla

    @marcobrambilla

    Video artist whose dense, spiraling collages pack thousands of film figures into one frame. All of cinema in a single spiral

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  • Marina Abramovic

    @abramovicm

    Performance artist who sat for The Artist Is Present at MoMA and later put The Hero on chain. The body, then the record

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  • Mario Klingemann

    @quasimondo

    Artist whose Memories of Passersby I generates endless neural portraits in a wooden cabinet. Faces nobody ever had

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  • Marjan Moghaddam

    @marjan_moghaddam

    Digital art pioneer making glitched 3D figures dancing in patterned skins. The body as code

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  • Matt DesLauriers

    @mattdesl

    Generative artist behind Meridian and Subscapes, known for layered code landscapes. The algorithm paints horizons

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  • Matt Hall

    @matthall2000

    Cofounder of Larva Labs, the studio behind CryptoPunks, painted on a Brooklyn stoop. Ten thousand faces started with two

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  • Matt Kane

    @mattkaneartist

    Painter in code whose Gazers shift with the phases of the moon. The painting keeps time

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  • Max Osiris

    @maxOSIRISart

    A Trash Art originator who paints crude cartoon faces torn by glitch in acid pink. Two clocks, art time and crypto time

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  • Maya Man

    @mayaontheinter

    Artist who makes generative work about internet culture, including Fake It Till You Make It. Pink, glossy, a little too online

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  • Melissa Wiederrecht

    @mwiederrecht

    Generative artist behind Sudfah, organic fields grown from algorithms. Nature, written in code

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  • Micah Johnson

    @Micah_Johnson3

    Former Major League Baseball player who created Aku, the young astronaut. A dream in a helmet

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  • Michael Kozlowski

    @mpkoz

    Generative artist behind Bokeh and Metropolis on Art Blocks. Blur for light, pixels for blocks

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  • Michael Kutsche

    @michaelkutsche

    Character designer for film who paints strange creatures in neon lit interiors. Monsters, lovingly rendered

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  • Michael Yamashita

    @yamashitaphoto

    National Geographic photographer known for epic travel images from around the world. The world, one frame at a time

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  • Mimi Onuoha

    @thistimeitsmimi

    Artist behind The Library of Missing Datasets, which catalogs data nobody collected. The empty drawer is the evidence

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  • Mitchell F Chan

    @mitchellfchan

    Conceptual artist making art games and generative work, including The Boys of Summer. The rules are the medium

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  • Molly Crabapple

    @mollycrabapple

    Artist and writer who draws reportage in ink and watercolour. Journalism with a brush

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  • Natalie Amrossi

    @misshattan

    Photographer known as Misshattan who shoots Manhattan from the open door of a helicopter. The grid, seen from above

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  • Nate Mohler

    @natemohler

    Digital artist who builds abstractions out of pixels and deliberate glitches. The error is the brushstroke

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  • NeonGlitch86

    @neonglitch86

    Game industry 3D artist who builds neon cyberpunk bars and dioramas as virtual spaces. Built the room, then the crowd

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  • Nicole Ruggiero

    @nicoleruggiero

    3D artist making glossy queer surrealism of pastel bodies and wet surfaces. Soft, strange, proud

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  • Nina Chanel Abney

    @ninachanel

    Painter of bold, flat figures in stencil shapes, primary colors and hard black outlines. The museum crowd followed her on chain

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  • Noah Kalina

    @noahkalina

    Photographer who has taken a self portrait every day since 2000 for Everyday. Thousands of days, one face

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  • Nuclear Samurai

    @NuclearSamurai

    Artist who makes AI assisted toy and action figure renders, including BRAINROT and X Figures. Plastic sheen, clean lineage

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  • Olive Allen

    @IamOliveAllen

    Artist behind UnBearables, a melting polar bear among toy like pop characters. Cute on top, climate underneath

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  • Osinachi

    @osinachi

    Nigerian crypto art pioneer who paints figurative scenes in Microsoft Word. The office tool became a studio

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  • Other World

    @otherworld_xx

    Bioengineering PhD who repaints old masters with hooded neon Fiends in place of the saints. Bosch, with the lights on

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  • Pak

    @muratpak

    Pseudonymous minimalist artist behind The Merge in 2021. No face, all form

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  • Patrick Amadon

    @amadon

    Glitch painter who layers graffiti, paint and photography, and built the 404 Catalog for discovery without sales history. The work first, the numbers never

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  • Peter Burr

    @peterburr

    Animator of stark black and white labyrinths, including Pattern Language. Two colors, endless corridors

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  • Pindar Van Arman

    @vanarman

    Artist who has spent twenty years building robots that paint with AI. The machine holds the brush

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  • Piter Pasma

    @piterpasma

    Generative artist behind Skulptuur, raymarched black and white forms. Sculpture with no stone

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  • Post Wook

    @POSTWOOK

    Collage artist who stitches mountains, deserts and seas under oversized moons, with traits drawn from real satellite data. Campaign discipline, cosmic scale

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  • pplpleasr

    @pplpleasr1

    Artist behind the Uniswap unicorn animation and founder of Shibuya, making glossy 3D dreamscapes. A promo clip became an icon

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  • Rachel Rossin

    @rachelrossin

    Painter who dissolves oil into virtual reality and was among the first artists to mint. Paint, then pixels, then both

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  • Rachel Sz Woods

    @RachelSTWood

    Photographer whose travel images of water and light read like brushwork. A camera that paints

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  • Rafael Rozendaal

    @newrafael

    Net art pioneer who makes websites as art and flat fields of pure colour. The browser as canvas

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  • Raven Trammell

    @raven50mm

    Photographer behind Raven50mm, shooting the street in the documentary tradition. The city, at eye level

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  • Rebecca Rose

    @RebeccaRose

    Collage artist staging cut photographs of vintage rooms, faceless figures and divers like film sets. Change the vocabulary and galleries follow

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  • Refik Anadol

    @refikanadol

    Media artist whose data painting Unsupervised filled the MoMA lobby. The archive learned to dream

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  • Robert Hodgin

    @flight404

    Generative artist known as flight404, creator of Meridian on Art Blocks. Landscapes grown in layers

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  • ROBNESS

    @ROBNESSOFFICIAL

    Trash Art pioneer whose founding piece is a 64 gallon wheeled trash toter. Kicked out for garbage, invited back for it

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  • Rocketgirl

    @rocketgirlART

    Artist known online as Rocketgirl, painted as her avatar on a Brooklyn roof. Two red lines across the skyline

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  • Ron English

    @ronenglishart

    Street pop artist behind POPaganda and the grinning skull face. Billboards hijacked, brands turned inside out

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  • Ryan Koopmans

    @ryankoopmans

    Photographer who collages ruined neoclassical halls overgrown with impossible foliage. Ruins, back in bloom

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  • Ryan Seslow

    @ryanseslow

    Artist and teacher who works in looping GIF collage. The loop is the lesson

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  • Sam Rolfes

    @samrolfes

    3D artist making fleshy, glitching figures in motion. Beautiful for a second, then wrong

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  • Sam Spratt

    @SamSpratt

    Painter who brings classical oil technique to digital work, maker of Luci and the Masks of Luci. Old hands, new myth

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  • Sara Baumann

    @SaraSBaumann

    Former occupational therapist who painted Women and Weapons and built the 3D character Nova. Pin up girls, fully armed

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  • Sarah Meyohas

    @sarahmeyohas

    Artist who launched Bitchcoin in 2015, one of the first artists to tokenize her own work. Early, and on purpose

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  • Sarah Zucker

    @thesarahshow

    Video artist who makes analog VHS dreams of feedback and scan lines. Tape as paint

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  • Sasha Stiles

    @sashastiles

    Poet who works with artificial intelligence to make language into luminous digital art. Verse, rewritten in light

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  • Sebastian Errazuriz

    @sebastianstudio

    Design provocateur and sculptor known for surreal furniture and cracked classical statues. Break it to see it

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  • Shantell Martin

    @shantell_martin

    Artist drawing continuous black lines on white across walls, bodies and buildings. One line, never lifted

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  • Shavonne Wong

    @shavonnewong_

    Artist who lights virtual 3D models like fashion editorials and cofounded NFT Asia. The model never existed

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  • Slimesunday

    @slimesunday

    Collage artist who cuts classical bodies into surreal new arrangements. Old statues, new dreams

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  • Snowfro

    @artonblocks

    Founded Art Blocks and made the Chromie Squiggle, its first generative project. A single squiggle started a movement

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  • Snow Yunxue Fu

    @snowyunxuefu

    Artist who renders 3D landscapes of glassy mountains and the digital sublime. Mountains made of pure light

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  • Sofia Crespo

    @soficrespo91

    Artist whose neural zoo imagines glossy creatures for an artificial natural history. Species no one has met

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  • Sophie Kahn

    @sophiekahn

    Sculptor who casts fractured heads from 3D scans in bronze. The error is the portrait

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  • Sougwen Chung

    @sougwen

    Artist who draws side by side with robotic arms she builds and trains. Human mark, machine mark, same page

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  • Steve Pikelny

    @steviepxyz

    Conceptual generative artist behind Fake Internet Money. Counterfeit is the point

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  • Steve Sweatpants

    @stevesweatpants

    Photographer who founded Street Dreams magazine and shoots New York in motion. The city never holds still

    ARTISTS

  • Swoon

    @swoonhq

    Street artist known for cut paper portraits wheatpasted on city walls. Paper that outlasts brick

    ARTISTS

  • ThankYouX

    @thankyoux

    Street artist who took geometric spray paintings from walls to Sotheby's. The wall came inside

    ARTISTS

  • Tom Sachs

    @tomsachs

    Sculptor behind the Rocket Factory and plywood NASA, working from a studio on Centre Street. Duct tape reaches orbit

    ARTISTS

  • Trevor Andrew

    @trevorandrew

    Former pro snowboarder who became GucciGhost, a dripping sheet ghost that went from Brooklyn to Milan. A bootleg that got invited in

    ARTISTS

  • Trevor Jones

    @trevorjonesart

    Painter who layers thick palette knife oils over crypto iconography, including the Bitcoin Angel. Bernini meets the blockchain

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    ARTISTS

  • Tristan Eaton

    @tristaneaton

    Muralist and toy designer known for collage portrait murals. Layers of the whole street

    ARTISTS

  • Tustont

    @tustont

    Makes dense, melting psychedelic faces from tangled rainbow strokes and glitch shards. Portraits pushed to noise

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    ARTISTS

  • Tyler Hobbs

    @tylerxhobbs

    Generative artist behind Fidenza and QQL, known for flowing bands of color. Rules in, rhythm out

    ARTISTS

  • Vanessa Rosa

    @vanessa_rosa

    Artist behind Little Martians, a cast of ceramic faced martian characters. Clay from another planet

    ARTISTS

  • Vhils

    @vhils

    Portuguese artist who carves portraits into walls by chipping away the surface. Faces found in plaster

    ARTISTS

  • Victor Maury

    @victor_maury

    Artist painting cinematic character concepts and worlds, including The Bond. Every face carries a plot

    ARTISTS

  • Victor Mosquera

    @victormosquerar

    Surreal painter and illustrator of masked figures, joined twins, halos and suns in earth tones. Made by hand, on purpose

    Watch the interview
    ARTISTS

  • Vinnie Hager

    @VinnieHager

    Artist who fills whole pages edge to edge with hand drawn glyphs, eyes and creatures. No blank space left

    Watch the interview
    ARTISTS

  • WGMeets

    @WGMeets

    A pseudonymous artist making vivid fractal abstraction that looks like exploding liquid glass. Recursion with a wild style

    Watch the interview
    ARTISTS

  • WhIsBe

    @whisbe

    Artist behind Vandal Gummy, the translucent gummy bear posed for a mug shot. Candy with a record

    ARTISTS

  • William Mapan

    @williamapan

    Generative artist behind Dragons and Anticyclone, painterly scribbles written in code. Hand feel, no hand

    ARTISTS

  • XCOPY

    @XCOPYART

    A pseudonymous artist whose glitched, flickering loops about death and dystopia shaped crypto art. Static on repeat, forever

    ARTISTS

  • Yam Karkai

    @ykarkai

    Illustrator behind World of Women, bold flat portraits of women in colour. Representation, by the thousand

    ARTISTS

  • Yoshi Sodeoka

    @sodeoka

    Video artist and glitch pioneer who turns static into color. Noise, tuned until it sings

    ARTISTS

  • Zach Lieberman

    @zachlieberman

    Artist who cofounded the School for Poetic Computation and sketches in code daily. Code as a daily drawing

    ARTISTS

  • Zancan

    @zancan

    Generative artist behind Garden Monoliths, drawing plotter botanicals in tangled line. Code that gardens

    ARTISTS

  • ZHC

    @zhcomicart

    Comic artist who draws cartoon critters in marker, including the Critters series. Loud markers, soft creatures

    ARTISTS

Collectors and curators

52 people

  • Aaron Wright

    @awrigh01

    Founder of FlamingoDAO, one of the early groups to collect digital art together. A vault with many keys

    COLLECTORS AND CURATORS

  • AC The Collector

    @ACthecollector

    Partner at the 6529 Fund who led the acquisition of Ringers #879, the Goose. Strings and pegs, one bird

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    COLLECTORS AND CURATORS

  • Adam Weitsman

    @adamweitsman

    Upstate New York scrap metal executive and collector painted with his Bored Ape companion. Steel by day, apes by night

    COLLECTORS AND CURATORS

  • BatSoupYum

    @batsoupyum

    A pseudonymous collector of glitch, cartoon satire and moody one of one digital art. The collection is the self portrait

    Watch the interview
    COLLECTORS AND CURATORS

  • Bharat Krymo

    @krybharat

    Collector whose world runs through a hooded CryptoPunk and The Memes by 6529 cards. The collection is the portrait

    Watch the interview
    COLLECTORS AND CURATORS

  • ClownVamp

    @clownvamp

    An AI art curator and collector working with Fellowship on printed and framed AI art. Machine images, gilded frames

    COLLECTORS AND CURATORS

  • Colborn Bell

    @co1born

    Founded the Museum of Crypto Art to give digital work a home and a history. The archive came before the canon

    COLLECTORS AND CURATORS

  • Cozomo de' Medici

    @CozomoMedici

    A pseudonymous collector and patron of digital art, painted here as the avatar. The patron is the persona

    COLLECTORS AND CURATORS

  • Dannyboyy

    @Dannyb0yyy_

    A collector painted as his voxel pig avatar outside a Lower East Side bodega. The avatar holds the corner

    COLLECTORS AND CURATORS

  • DCinvestor

    @iamDCinvestor

    Longtime collector of generative art, best known for holding Fidenza works. Curves over charts

    COLLECTORS AND CURATORS

  • Deeze

    @deezefi

    A collector known for Rug Radio and a wall of profile pictures. The avatar does the talking

    COLLECTORS AND CURATORS

  • DeltaSauce

    @deltasauce

    A collector painted by MLow as a marble youth at a laundromat at three in the morning. Patience is a spin cycle

    COLLECTORS AND CURATORS

  • Ed Zipco

    @edzipco

    Cofounder of Superchief Gallery, the first gallery dedicated to NFT art. Screens on the wall, doors on the street

    COLLECTORS AND CURATORS

  • Elena Zavelev

    @elenazavelev

    Founder of CADAF, a fair built for digital art. The booth moved online

    COLLECTORS AND CURATORS

  • Eleonora Brizi

    @breezyart

    Curator known as Breezy, among the first to organize crypto art shows. The salon wall went digital

    COLLECTORS AND CURATORS

  • Fanny Lakoubay

    @fannylakoubay

    Digital art advisor and collector who founded LAL Art. Curates the wall before the market finds it

    COLLECTORS AND CURATORS

  • Fred Wilson

    @fredwilson

    Cofounder of Union Square Ventures and an early collector of digital and generative art. Backed the code, then hung it

    COLLECTORS AND CURATORS

  • gmoney

    @gmoneynft

    A pseudonymous collector whose orange beanie CryptoPunk became his face, and founder of the fashion label 9dcc. The avatar got dressed

    COLLECTORS AND CURATORS

  • Hans Ulrich Obrist

    @hansulrichobrist

    Curator and artistic director of the Serpentine Galleries in London. A conversation that never ends

    COLLECTORS AND CURATORS

  • Jake Brukhman

    @jbrukh

    Founder of CoinFund and a collector of generative art. The fund backs the wall

    COLLECTORS AND CURATORS

  • Julia Kaganskiy

    @juliaxgulia

    Curator who has worked at Eyebeam, the New York center for art and technology. Kept the lab in the art

    COLLECTORS AND CURATORS

  • Kelani Nichole

    @kelaninichole

    Founder of TRANSFER, a gallery devoted to digital and networked art. The dark room lets the screens speak

    COLLECTORS AND CURATORS

  • Lady Phe0nix

    @yesladypheonix

    Digital art advisor and collector who helps artists and collectors find each other. Curation is a craft

    COLLECTORS AND CURATORS

  • Lanett Bennett Grant

    @musicalnetta

    A collector whose world runs from a Mask of Luci to clay, red and cobalt BSY pieces. Taste is the medium

    COLLECTORS AND CURATORS

  • Lindsay Howard

    @lindsayhoward

    Curator who led community at Foundation and has put digital art on walls and screens for years. The show before the sale

    COLLECTORS AND CURATORS

  • Loic Gouzer

    @loicgouzer

    Former auction specialist who sold the Salvator Mundi and then founded Particle. One masterpiece, many owners

    COLLECTORS AND CURATORS

  • Magda Sawon

    @magdasawon

    Co founder of Postmasters, the gallery that showed digital art long before it was fashionable. Early is a lonely word

    COLLECTORS AND CURATORS

  • Marc Glimcher

    @marcglimcher

    President and CEO of Pace Gallery, who launched Pace Verso for digital work. The blue chip gallery went on chain

    COLLECTORS AND CURATORS

  • Matt Zhang

    @zhang_matt

    Collector who built a fund around digital art. A wall that keeps growing

    COLLECTORS AND CURATORS

  • Michael Bouhanna

    @michaelbouhanna

    Sotheby's specialist behind Natively Digital, its sales of digital art. The gavel came online

    COLLECTORS AND CURATORS

  • Noah Davis

    @noahdavis

    Ran the Beeple sale at Christie's, then led CryptoPunks at Yuga Labs. From the gavel to the punks

    COLLECTORS AND CURATORS

  • OMZ

    @omz_nft

    A pseudonymous collector whose first digital artwork was The Protector by Trevor Jones and Jose Delbo. One piece opened the door

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    COLLECTORS AND CURATORS

  • Paola Antonelli

    @curiousoctopus

    MoMA senior curator of architecture and design who acquired the @ symbol for the collection. Design lives everywhere

    COLLECTORS AND CURATORS

  • Phil Mohun

    @philmohun

    Founder of the NODE gallery for digital and generative art. A room built for the screen

    COLLECTORS AND CURATORS

  • Pranksy

    @pranksy

    A collector known for buying early and widely across the whole space. First in, and everywhere at once

    COLLECTORS AND CURATORS

  • Priyanka Desai

    @pdesai_

    Operator of FlamingoDAO, one of the early collector groups for digital art. The wall grows as a group

    COLLECTORS AND CURATORS

  • Punk6529

    @punk6529

    Pseudonymous collector and builder behind The Memes and a push for an open metaverse. The avatar is the argument

    COLLECTORS AND CURATORS

  • Punk7635

    @punk7635

    The collector behind Artie Galerie, curating warped digital sports collage on Verse. The court, bent into art

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    COLLECTORS AND CURATORS

  • Regina Harsanyi

    @reginaharsanyi

    Media arts curator at the Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria. Old monitors, new art

    COLLECTORS AND CURATORS

  • Richard Skeet

    @0x00RS

    Managing partner at Hivemind's digital culture fund, a former credit investor who still writes Solidity. Blue chip means it lasts

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    COLLECTORS AND CURATORS

  • Ryan Zurrer

    @kukulabanze

    Founder of Dialectic and collector of Beeple's HUMAN ONE, in Bitcoin since 2012. Scarcity made the screen collectable

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    COLLECTORS AND CURATORS

  • Salome Asega

    @salomeasega

    Artist and director of NEW INC, the New Museum's incubator. Ideas need a building

    COLLECTORS AND CURATORS

  • Seedphrase

    @seedphrase

    Collector known in the CryptoPunks world for an alien Punk with a pipe. The rarest face in the room

    COLLECTORS AND CURATORS

  • Simon de Pury

    @simondepury

    Auctioneer who brought the gavel to digital art sales. The same hammer, new lots

    COLLECTORS AND CURATORS

  • Sofia Garcia

    @sofiagarcia_io

    Founder of ARTXCODE, which brings generative art to big walls and screens. Code, at room scale

    COLLECTORS AND CURATORS

  • Steve Cohen

    @stevenacohen2

    Owner of the New York Mets and one of the city's major art collectors. A diamond and a collection

    COLLECTORS AND CURATORS

  • Steven Sacks

    @bitforms

    Founded bitforms gallery in 2001 to show new media and screen based art. Two decades early, still on time

    COLLECTORS AND CURATORS

  • Tina Rivers Ryan

    @tinariversryan

    Art historian of digital art who has written for Artforum. The one keeping the record straight

    COLLECTORS AND CURATORS

  • Toady Hawk

    @toadyhawk

    Pseudonymous collector who spreads Nouns and their pixel glasses everywhere. One pair of glasses, every face

    COLLECTORS AND CURATORS

  • Todd Kramer

    @toddkramer1

    Cofounder of the Ross + Kramer gallery and a collector of digital art. The wall moved on chain

    COLLECTORS AND CURATORS

  • Vincent Van Dough

    @vince_van_dough

    A crypto art collector known for one of the deepest vaults in the field. The name is a painting

    COLLECTORS AND CURATORS

  • Zeneca

    @zeneca

    Former professional poker player who founded Zen Academy and the Zenecas characters. Read the table, then teach it

    Watch the interview
    COLLECTORS AND CURATORS

Founders and investors

50 people

  • Albert Wenger

    @albertwenger

    Partner at Union Square Ventures who lives with a wall of generative art. The thesis hangs at home

    FOUNDERS AND INVESTORS

  • Alex Atallah

    @xanderatallah

    Cofounder of OpenSea, the marketplace where much of digital art first found a home. Built the harbor, not the ships

    FOUNDERS AND INVESTORS

  • Alexis Ohanian

    @alexisohanian

    Brooklyn born Reddit cofounder, founder of Seven Seven Six and a digital art collector. The front page, then the wall

    FOUNDERS AND INVESTORS

  • Alex Salnikov

    @salnikov

    Cofounder of Rarible, an early marketplace for digital art on the blockchain. Built the room, then opened the door

    FOUNDERS AND INVESTORS

  • Alex Taub

    @ajt

    Entrepreneur behind the Goblintown project and its gross out cartoon creatures. Ugly on purpose, loved anyway

    FOUNDERS AND INVESTORS

  • Amanda Cassatt

    @amandacassatt

    Founder of Serotonin, a marketing studio for the crypto world. Attention as a craft

    FOUNDERS AND INVESTORS

  • Anil Dash

    @anildash

    Technologist who cocreated Monegraph at Seven on Seven in 2014, an early prototype of the NFT. Proved the idea before the market

    FOUNDERS AND INVESTORS

  • Austin Robey

    @austinrobey_

    Cofounder of Metalabel, a home for creative groups to release work together. The label as a crew

    FOUNDERS AND INVESTORS

  • Cameron Winklevoss

    @cameron

    Cofounder of Gemini, the company that owns Nifty Gateway. Rowed the river, then built the bank

    FOUNDERS AND INVESTORS

  • Chris Burniske

    @cburniske

    Cofounder of the venture firm Placeholder and coauthor of the book Cryptoassets. The placeholder became the thesis

    FOUNDERS AND INVESTORS

  • Chris Dixon

    @cdixon

    Leads a16z crypto and wrote the book Read Write Own. The network, owned by its users

    FOUNDERS AND INVESTORS

  • Colby Mugrabi

    @colbymugrabi

    Art collector who moves between the gallery world and couture. Taste as a practice

    FOUNDERS AND INVESTORS

  • Dan Romero

    @dwr

    Cofounder of Farcaster, the open social protocol behind the purple arches. A network nobody can take away

    FOUNDERS AND INVESTORS

  • Deana Burke

    @deanaburke

    Co founder of Boys Club, a community built for women and nonbinary people in crypto. The clubhouse is hot pink

    FOUNDERS AND INVESTORS

  • Devin Finzer

    @dfinzer

    Co founder and chief executive of OpenSea, the marketplace where much of digital art trades. Built the harbor, then the traffic

    FOUNDERS AND INVESTORS

  • Dom Hofmann

    @dhof

    Cofounded Vine, then made Loot and Blitmap, projects built for others to finish. Six seconds, eight items, open ends

    FOUNDERS AND INVESTORS

  • Duncan Cock Foster

    @duncancfoster

    Co founder of Nifty Gateway, which popularized the open edition drop. Everyone gets one

    FOUNDERS AND INVESTORS

  • Gareb Shamus

    @gareb

    Founder of Wizard magazine and Wizard World comic conventions, now building HeroMaker. Every fan wants a cape

    FOUNDERS AND INVESTORS

  • Gary Vaynerchuk

    @garyvee

    Entrepreneur who grew Wine Library, founded VaynerMedia and drew the VeeFriends characters. Doodles turned into a cast

    FOUNDERS AND INVESTORS

  • Griffin Cock Foster

    @griffincfoster

    Co founder of Nifty Gateway, whose timed drops turned digital art sales into live events. The countdown was the show

    FOUNDERS AND INVESTORS

  • Hayden Adams

    @haydenzadams

    Built Uniswap, the exchange protocol with the pink unicorn. One unicorn, a whole market

    FOUNDERS AND INVESTORS

  • Iain Nash

    @isiain

    Engineer at Zora who writes the code artists mint with. Infrastructure as craft

    FOUNDERS AND INVESTORS

  • Jacob Horne

    @js_horne

    Cofounder of Zora, the protocol for minting and sharing media on chain. Made minting feel like posting

    FOUNDERS AND INVESTORS

  • Jason Goldberg

    @betashop

    Serial founder building Airstack and Moxie on the Farcaster network. Always the next one

    FOUNDERS AND INVESTORS

  • Jesse Pollak

    @jessepollak

    Engineer who created Base, the blockchain network built at Coinbase. A blue square for everyone

    FOUNDERS AND INVESTORS

  • Jesse Walden

    @jessewldn

    Founded the crypto venture firm Variant after co founding Mediachain. Ownership was the thesis

    FOUNDERS AND INVESTORS

  • John Crain

    @johncrain

    Cofounder of SuperRare, which has curated single edition crypto art from its first day. One of one, from day one

    FOUNDERS AND INVESTORS

  • Jordan Lyall

    @JordanLyall

    Built Prohibition on Art Blocks Engine and made Heart + Craft with Snowfro. The instructions live on chain, so the work outlives the company

    Watch the interview
    FOUNDERS AND INVESTORS

  • Joseph Lubin

    @ethereumjoseph

    Cofounder of Ethereum and founder of Consensys, based in Brooklyn. Built the company around the chain

    FOUNDERS AND INVESTORS

  • Justin Fredericks

    @justfred_ar

    The force behind Art House, a gallery that shows art in augmented reality. Frames that float in open air

    FOUNDERS AND INVESTORS

  • Kayvon Tehranian

    @kayvz

    Founder of Foundation, the platform built for artists to mint and sell single works. A black wall, one piece at a time

    FOUNDERS AND INVESTORS

  • Keith Grossman

    @keithgrossman

    Former president of TIME who launched TIMEPieces for digital art. A magazine cover, collected

    FOUNDERS AND INVESTORS

  • Kevin Rose

    @kevinrose

    Founder of Digg who later started Proof and the Moonbirds collection. The owl on the shoulder

    FOUNDERS AND INVESTORS

  • Li Jin

    @ljin18

    Cofounder of Variant who writes about the creator economy and ownership. Creators as owners

    FOUNDERS AND INVESTORS

  • Marc Beckman

    @marcbeckman

    Founder of DMA United who teaches at NYU Stern. Brands in the lecture hall

    FOUNDERS AND INVESTORS

  • Meltem Demirors

    @melt_dem

    Crypto investor and longtime voice in digital asset finance. Old money questions, new money rails

    FOUNDERS AND INVESTORS

  • Mike Dudas

    @mdudas

    Co founded The Block and later the venture firm 6th Man Ventures. Courtside at the new game

    FOUNDERS AND INVESTORS

  • Mike Novogratz

    @novogratz

    Founder of Galaxy Digital and a CryptoPunk holder. Wall Street, then the punk

    FOUNDERS AND INVESTORS

  • Nick Grossman

    @nickgrossman

    Partner at Union Square Ventures who builds tools for displaying digital art. The frame decides how art lives

    FOUNDERS AND INVESTORS

  • Nikola Tesla

    NEW YORKERS NO. 0473

    Inventor who built the alternating current system and dreamed of wireless power at Wardenclyffe. Lit the world, died broke at the New Yorker

    FOUNDERS AND INVESTORS KEYSTONE

  • Pacman

    @pacmanblur

    Founder of Blur, a marketplace built for fast trading. Speed as a design choice

    FOUNDERS AND INVESTORS

  • Rachel Spratt

    @MrsRachelSpratt

    Runs the studio behind Sam Spratt's paintings, from Luci's journey to the Monument. Every myth needs a builder

    FOUNDERS AND INVESTORS

  • Randi Zuckerberg

    @randizuckerberg

    Media entrepreneur and co founder of HUG, a community for digital artists. The warm welcome is the work

    FOUNDERS AND INVESTORS

  • Sam Englebardt

    @samenglebardt

    Venture investor at Galaxy Interactive backing games and digital art. The arcade became the gallery

    FOUNDERS AND INVESTORS

  • Seth Goldstein

    @sethgoldstein

    Cofounder of Bright Moments, which held live minting events around the world. Art made in the room

    FOUNDERS AND INVESTORS

  • Spencer Noon

    @spencernoon

    Cofounder of the crypto venture firm Variant. Reads the chain like a chart

    FOUNDERS AND INVESTORS

  • Tyler Winklevoss

    @tyler

    Cofounder of Gemini, the company that owns Nifty Gateway. Twin oars, one vault

    FOUNDERS AND INVESTORS

  • Vitalik Buterin

    @VitalikButerin

    Cofounder of Ethereum, which he proposed while still a teenager. A computer nobody owns

    FOUNDERS AND INVESTORS

  • Yancey Strickler

    @ystrickler

    Co founded Kickstarter and later Metalabel, a home for collaborative releases. The crowd became the patron

    FOUNDERS AND INVESTORS

  • Yossi Hasson

    @metaversal_

    Cofounder of Metaversal, backing digital culture and avatar communities. A wall of faces

    FOUNDERS AND INVESTORS

Writers and media

26 people

  • Adam McBride

    @adamamcbride

    Writer and researcher who digs up the earliest NFT projects as history. Archaeology of the recent past

    WRITERS AND MEDIA

  • Andrew Steinwold

    @AndrewSteinwold

    Founder of the fund Sfermion and host of the Zima Red podcast on digital ownership. Early thesis, long view

    WRITERS AND MEDIA

  • Andrew Wang

    @andr3w

    Host who gathered the digital art community in live audio rooms and conversations. The microphone as meeting place

    WRITERS AND MEDIA

  • Anthony Pompliano

    @apompliano

    Investor and podcaster known as Pomp, who covers finance, bitcoin and digital art. A loud signal, every single day

    WRITERS AND MEDIA

  • Audre Lorde

    NEW YORKERS NO. 0650

    Poet and essayist who described herself as Black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet. The master's tools never built her house

    WRITERS AND MEDIA

  • Camila Russo

    @camirusso

    Journalist who founded The Defiant and wrote The Infinite Machine about Ethereum. Reporting from inside the storm

    WRITERS AND MEDIA

  • Captain Zwingli

    @ChrisJourdan

    Host of Coffee with Captain, painted by MLow as his Bored Ape on a diner stool. The Captain takes it black

    WRITERS AND MEDIA

  • David Hoffman

    @TrustlessState

    Cofounder of Bankless, the media company covering crypto and a bankless future. Built an audience around a thesis

    WRITERS AND MEDIA

  • Edgar Allan Poe

    NEW YORKERS NO. 0472

    Wrote The Raven and invented the detective story, spending his last years in a Fordham cottage. The nightmare became a genre

    WRITERS AND MEDIA

  • Farokh

    @farokh

    Founder of Rug Radio, a network of live shows about crypto culture. The signal is the community

    WRITERS AND MEDIA

  • Fran Lebowitz

    NEW YORKERS NO. 0491

    Essayist and humorist whose Manhattan wit fills books, talk shows and long walks. No phone, no computer, all opinion

    WRITERS AND MEDIA

  • Herman Melville

    NEW YORKERS NO. 0471

    Wrote Moby-Dick and spent his last working years as a New York customs inspector. The whale surfaced after the man sank

    WRITERS AND MEDIA

  • James Baldwin

    NEW YORKERS NO. 0493

    Harlem born writer of Go Tell It on the Mountain and The Fire Next Time. Left the country to see it clearly

    WRITERS AND MEDIA KEYSTONE

  • Jane Jacobs

    NEW YORKERS NO. 0476

    Wrote The Death and Life of Great American Cities and helped save the Village from Robert Moses. Neighbors beat the bulldozer

    WRITERS AND MEDIA KEYSTONE

  • Jerry Saltz

    @jerrysaltz

    Senior art critic for New York magazine and winner of the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism. The loudest opinion in the room

    WRITERS AND MEDIA

  • Joan Didion

    NEW YORKERS NO. 0492

    Essayist who came to New York young and wrote the leaving down in Goodbye to All That. The cold eye, the warm city

    WRITERS AND MEDIA

  • Kevin Roose

    @kevinroose

    New York Times columnist who sold one of his columns as an NFT. The page became the piece

    WRITERS AND MEDIA

  • Langston Hughes

    NEW YORKERS NO. 0495

    Poet of the Harlem Renaissance who set neighborhood life to the rhythm of jazz and blues. A dream deferred still asks the question

    WRITERS AND MEDIA

  • Laura Shin

    @laurashin

    Crypto journalist who hosts the Unchained podcast from New York. The story, told straight

    WRITERS AND MEDIA

  • Matt Medved

    @mattmedved

    Co founder of nft now, a media outlet covering digital art and culture. News of a new medium

    WRITERS AND MEDIA

  • Max Cohen

    @CohentheWriter

    Writer covering the Museum of Crypto Art world of collage and art history remix. Words for the wall

    WRITERS AND MEDIA

  • Roger Dickerman

    @rogerdickerman

    Host of the Artifacts podcast, long interviews with crypto artists. A wall of voices

    WRITERS AND MEDIA

  • Ryan Sean Adams

    @RyanSAdams

    Cofounder of Bankless, a newsletter and podcast about crypto. Media for the self sovereign

    WRITERS AND MEDIA

  • Ryan Selkis

    @twobitidiot

    Founder of Messari, the crypto research and data company. Charts before claims

    WRITERS AND MEDIA

  • Walt Whitman

    NEW YORKERS NO. 0470

    Brooklyn poet who wrote Leaves of Grass and rode the ferry into verse. One man, containing multitudes

    WRITERS AND MEDIA

  • Zora Neale Hurston

    NEW YORKERS NO. 0494

    Harlem Renaissance novelist and folklorist who wrote Their Eyes Were Watching God. Rediscovered, finally read

    WRITERS AND MEDIA

Music

58 people

  • 3LAU

    @3LAU

    DJ and producer who cofounded Royal to let fans own a share of songs. The listener joins the label

    MUSIC

  • Aaliyah

    NEW YORKERS NO. 0640

    Brooklyn born R&B singer whose One in a Million album reshaped the sound of the nineties. Soft voice, long shadow

    MUSIC

  • A$AP Rocky

    @asvpxrocky

    Harlem rapper and fashion figure who led the A$AP Mob to the charts and the runway. Uptown dressed the world

    MUSIC · 2 PAINTINGS

  • Alicia Keys

    @aliciakeys

    Singer and pianist raised in Hell's Kitchen who gave the city Empire State of Mind. The concrete jungle got a chorus

    MUSIC

  • Barbra Streisand

    @BarbraStreisand

    Flatbush singer and actor who became Funny Girl on Broadway and stayed a star for decades. Kept the nose, took the stage

    MUSIC

  • Beastie Boys

    @beastieboys

    Three downtown punks who crossed into hip hop and made Paul's Boutique. Samples stacked into a city

    MUSIC

  • Billie Holiday

    NEW YORKERS NO. 0497

    Jazz singer who made Strange Fruit a protest the country could not ignore. One gardenia, one open wound

    MUSIC KEYSTONE

  • Billy Joel

    @billyjoel

    Long Island songwriter behind Piano Man and New York State of Mind. A bar stool song became the city's memory

    MUSIC

  • Black Dave

    @blackdave

    Rapper who took his music on chain early as a web3 artist. A fire escape with a mic

    MUSIC

  • Cardi B

    @iamcardib

    Bronx rapper who took Bodak Yellow to number one and won a Grammy for Best Rap Album. No filter, full chart

    MUSIC

  • Cooper Turley

    @cooopahtroopa

    Music investor who founded Coop Records to back artists online. Vinyl logic, digital pressing

    MUSIC

  • Cyndi Lauper

    @cyndilauper

    Singer raised in Ozone Park, Queens who took bright hair and a big voice to the top of the charts. Beige never stood a chance

    MUSIC

  • Daniel Allan

    @imdanielallan

    Producer who funded an EP by letting fans own part of it on chain. The audience as the label

    MUSIC

  • David Byrne

    NEW YORKERS NO. 0509

    Talking Heads frontman who came out of CBGB and wore the big suit in Stop Making Sense. Art school nerve, dance floor feet

    MUSIC

  • Debbie Harry

    @blondieofficial

    Blondie singer who came up through CBGB and took punk to the top of the charts. Cool without trying

    MUSIC · 2 PAINTINGS

  • DJ Kool Herc

    NEW YORKERS NO. 0647

    Looped the break on two turntables at 1520 Sedgwick Avenue in 1973 and started hip hop. A rec room became year zero

    MUSIC KEYSTONE

  • DJ Premier

    @realdjpremier

    Producer and DJ who made Gang Starr with Guru and shaped New York boom bap. Scratches as signatures

    MUSIC

  • Duke Ellington

    NEW YORKERS NO. 0496

    Composer and bandleader who led the Cotton Club orchestra and made Take the A Train his anthem. Harlem was the key

    MUSIC KEYSTONE

  • Ella Fitzgerald

    NEW YORKERS NO. 0500

    The First Lady of Song, who won an Apollo amateur night and made scat her own language. Forgot the words, kept the tune

    MUSIC

  • French Montana

    @frenchmontana

    Bronx rapper who moved from Morocco as a boy and built Coke Boys. Gold chain, long road

    MUSIC

  • Ghostface Killah

    @ghostfacekillah

    Staten Island rapper and founding member of the Wu-Tang Clan. Stories told in gold

    MUSIC

  • Gramatik

    @gramatik

    Electronic producer who tokenized his music back in 2017. Early to the chain, still on the beat

    MUSIC

  • Grandmaster Flash

    NEW YORKERS NO. 0646

    Bronx DJ who turned the turntable into an instrument and released The Message with the Furious Five. The hands taught the music to play

    MUSIC

  • Haleek Maul

    @haleekmaul

    Rapper who releases his music on chain as a web3 artist. Every beat carries its own receipt

    MUSIC

  • Holly Herndon

    @hollyherndon

    Composer who built Holly+, an AI model of her own voice others can use. One voice, a whole choir

    MUSIC

  • Illa da Producer

    @illadaproducer

    Producer and Bored Ape holder who brought his ape into the studio. The ape runs the board

    MUSIC

  • Illmind

    @illmind

    Hip hop producer who releases beats and drum sounds as digital collectibles. The sample pack became the art

    MUSIC

  • James Murphy

    @lcdsoundsystem

    Founder of LCD Soundsystem and co founder of DFA Records in New York. Dance music for people who overthink

    MUSIC

  • Jay-Z

    @sc

    Rapper from the Marcy Houses who built Roc-A-Fella and Roc Nation. From the stoop to the owner's box

    MUSIC KEYSTONE

  • Joey Bada$$

    @joeyBADASS

    Flatbush rapper and actor who cofounded the Pro Era collective. Boom bap, reborn young

    MUSIC

  • Joey Ramone

    NEW YORKERS NO. 0505

    Queens born singer of the Ramones, the band that built punk on the CBGB stage. Three chords, one count off

    MUSIC

  • Jonathan Mann

    @songadaymann

    Musician who has written and recorded a song every day since 2009. Thousands of songs, one habit

    MUSIC

  • Lady Gaga

    @ladygaga

    Played Lower East Side dives before art pop made her a global star. Fame was the medium

    MUSIC

  • Latashá

    @callmelatasha

    Brooklyn rapper and performer who became a leading voice of music on chain. The block party moved online

    MUSIC

  • LL Cool J

    @llcoolj

    Queens rapper who became one of Def Jam's first stars with the album Radio in 1985. Never a comeback, just the next round

    MUSIC

  • Lou Reed

    NEW YORKERS NO. 0508

    Led the Velvet Underground and set downtown New York to three chords and a deadpan voice. The wild side, narrated flat

    MUSIC

  • Madonna

    @madonna

    Arrived in Manhattan with little money and turned the downtown clubs into a global career. Reinvention as a practice

    MUSIC · 2 PAINTINGS

  • Method Man

    @methodman

    Wu-Tang Clan rapper from Staten Island who released an NFT comic. Shaolin, drawn panel by panel

    MUSIC

  • Mike Casey

    @themikecasey

    Jazz saxophonist who released albums as NFTs. Old horn, new format

    MUSIC

  • Miles Davis

    NEW YORKERS NO. 0499

    Trumpeter who recorded Kind of Blue and reinvented jazz again and again. The silence between notes was the point

    MUSIC

  • Nas

    @nas

    Queens rapper who wrote Illmatic about life in the Queensbridge projects. One album, one block, one standard

    MUSIC · 2 PAINTINGS

  • Nicki Minaj

    @NICKIMINAJ

    Queens rapper who built a career on alter egos and accents that switch mid verse. Many voices, one throne

    MUSIC

  • The Notorious B.I.G.

    NEW YORKERS NO. 0501

    Brooklyn rapper who released Ready to Die in 1994 and was gone at twenty four. Two albums, a whole borough

    MUSIC KEYSTONE

  • Patti Smith

    NEW YORKERS NO. 0507

    Poet and singer whose album Horses carried Bowery punk to the world. Scripture with a snarl

    MUSIC

  • Pop Smoke

    NEW YORKERS NO. 0637

    Canarsie rapper who carried Brooklyn drill to a national audience before his death in 2020. The growl stayed

    MUSIC

  • Questlove

    @questlove

    Drummer of The Roots, bandleader on The Tonight Show and director of Summer of Soul. The crate is the canon

    MUSIC

  • RAC

    @RAC

    Grammy winning producer who was one of the first musicians to release music as NFTs. The record, owned direct

    MUSIC

  • Run-DMC

    @rundmc

    The Hollis, Queens trio that put shell toe Adidas on record and married rock to rap. Laces out, doors open

    MUSIC

  • RZA

    @rza

    Staten Island founder of the Wu Tang Clan, who made a single copy album. One copy, one silver box

    MUSIC

  • Salt-N-Pepa

    NEW YORKERS NO. 0645

    Queens trio who became one of the first women's rap acts to go platinum. Pioneers first, permission later

    MUSIC

  • Spottie WiFi

    @spottiewifi

    Rapper who performs as a CryptoPunk in a headband. The avatar got a record deal

    MUSIC

  • Steve Aoki

    @steveaoki

    DJ and producer famous for throwing cakes into the crowd, and a collector of digital art. Frosting as ritual

    MUSIC

  • Styles P

    @therealstylesp

    Yonkers rapper of the LOX who opened the Juices for Life juice bars. Hard bars, then green juice

    MUSIC

  • Thelonious Monk

    NEW YORKERS NO. 0498

    Jazz pianist and composer who helped invent bebop in Harlem clubs. Wrong notes, right on purpose

    MUSIC

  • Tupac Shakur

    NEW YORKERS NO. 0636

    Rapper and poet born in East Harlem, author of The Rose That Grew from Concrete. The myth outran the man

    MUSIC

  • Vérité

    @verite

    Independent pop singer who released music directly to fans on chain. No label, all listeners

    MUSIC

  • Wu-Tang Clan

    @wutangclan

    The Staten Island crew of nine emcees who released Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) in 1993. They renamed the borough Shaolin

    MUSIC KEYSTONE

  • Wyclef Jean

    @wyclef

    Haitian born, Brooklyn raised founder of the Fugees who has tokenized his music. The Score, then the chain

    MUSIC

Film and stage

10 people

  • Al Pacino

    NEW YORKERS NO. 0519

    Actor born in East Harlem and raised in the Bronx, star of Dog Day Afternoon and The Godfather. The sidewalk was the stage

    FILM AND STAGE

  • Aziz Ansari

    @azizansari

    Comedian and actor, creator of Master of None and a regular on the New York club stage. The mic is the notebook

    FILM AND STAGE

  • Jerry Orbach

    NEW YORKERS NO. 0662

    Broadway star who played Detective Lennie Briscoe on Law and Order for twelve seasons. The one liner outlived the case

    FILM AND STAGE

  • Jerry Seinfeld

    @JerrySeinfeld

    Stand up comic who cocreated Seinfeld, the sitcom famously about nothing. Nothing, observed perfectly

    FILM AND STAGE

  • Jimmy Fallon

    @jimmyfallon

    Tonight Show host who brought his Bored Ape to late night television. The ape got a couch

    FILM AND STAGE

  • Lin-Manuel Miranda

    @Lin_Manuel

    Washington Heights writer and composer behind In the Heights and Hamilton. A founding father, rhymed into a hit

    FILM AND STAGE

  • Martin Scorsese

    NEW YORKERS NO. 0517

    Director who grew up in Little Italy and put it on film in Mean Streets and Taxi Driver. The block was always the lead

    FILM AND STAGE

  • Robert De Niro

    NEW YORKERS NO. 0518

    Actor of Taxi Driver and Raging Bull who cofounded the Tribeca Film Festival. A neighborhood saved by a festival

    FILM AND STAGE

  • Sarah Jessica Parker

    @SJP

    Actor who played Carrie Bradshaw in Sex and the City and made Manhattan a character. Four friends, one city

    FILM AND STAGE

  • Spike Lee

    @spikelee

    Brooklyn filmmaker behind Do the Right Thing and the 40 Acres and a Mule production company. Courtside seat, street level lens

    FILM AND STAGE · 2 PAINTINGS

Fashion

17 people

  • Alexandre Arnault

    @alexandrearnault

    Tiffany executive behind the jewelled CryptoPunk pendant in Tiffany blue. Pixels, set in stone

    FASHION

  • Andre Leon Talley

    NEW YORKERS NO. 0629

    Vogue creative director and editor at large who shaped fashion for decades. The front row, in a caftan

    FASHION

  • Anna Wintour

    NEW YORKERS NO. 0627

    Editor of Vogue who has set the terms of American fashion since 1988. The sunglasses stay on

    FASHION

  • Bella Hadid

    @bellahadid

    Model who released CY B3LLA, a digital series built on a chrome cyber version of herself. The double walks too

    FASHION

  • Dapper Dan

    @dapperdanharlem

    The Harlem tailor whose 125th Street atelier dressed hip hop in reworked luxury logos. The houses caught up later

    FASHION · 2 PAINTINGS

  • Diane von Furstenberg

    @dvf

    Fashion designer who introduced the wrap dress in 1974. One dress, fifty years

    FASHION

  • Donna Karan

    NEW YORKERS NO. 0633

    Designer who founded Donna Karan New York and DKNY around seven easy pieces. Clothes built for the commute

    FASHION

  • Emily Ratajkowski

    @emrata

    Model and writer whose Buying Myself Back argued for owning her own image. The subject bought the picture

    FASHION

  • Halston

    NEW YORKERS NO. 0635

    Designer who stripped American fashion down to Ultrasuede and the clean line, then lived at Studio 54. Less cloth, more light

    FASHION

  • Iris Apfel

    NEW YORKERS NO. 0628

    Interior designer and textile expert who became a style icon with a Met show in her eighties. More is more, and then some

    FASHION

  • Jason Wu

    @jasonwu

    Fashion designer who dressed Michelle Obama for the 2009 inaugural ball. One gown, one night, one archive

    FASHION

  • Jeff Staple

    @jeffstaple

    Streetwear designer whose Pigeon Dunk caused a riot on the Lower East Side in 2005. A city bird, sold out

    FASHION

  • Karlie Kloss

    @karliekloss

    Model who founded Kode With Klossy to teach girls to code. The runway and the terminal

    FASHION

  • Marc Jacobs

    @marcjacobs

    New York designer who built his own label and led Louis Vuitton for sixteen years. Downtown grunge, uptown runway

    FASHION

  • Michael Kors

    @michaelkors

    Fashion designer who built an American luxury label from New York. Jet set glamour, a New York address

    FASHION

  • Ralph Lauren

    @ralphlauren

    Bronx born designer who started with neckties and built Polo into an American look. Sold a dream, wore it first

    FASHION

  • Vera Wang

    NEW YORKERS NO. 0634

    Competitive figure skater and Vogue editor who became the city's defining bridal designer. The late start was the real start

    FASHION

Sport

17 people

  • Aaron Judge

    @thejudge44

    Captain of the Yankees who hit 62 home runs in 2022 to set the American League record. The Bronx found its next number

    SPORT

  • Babe Ruth

    NEW YORKERS NO. 0479

    The Yankees slugger who made the home run the center of the game. The Bronx house still carries his name

    SPORT KEYSTONE

  • Carmelo Anthony

    @carmeloanthony

    Brooklyn born scorer who starred for the Knicks and won a national title at Syracuse. Home court, home borough

    SPORT

  • Derek Jeter

    @derekjeter

    Captained the Yankees at shortstop and won five World Series in pinstripes. The flip was the whole career in one throw

    SPORT · 2 PAINTINGS

  • Eli Manning

    @elimanning

    Giants quarterback who won two Super Bowls, both over the Patriots. Calm face, two rings

    SPORT

  • Henrik Lundqvist

    @hlundqvist35

    Rangers goaltender known as The King, who spent his whole NHL career in New York. Fifteen seasons, one crease

    SPORT

  • Jackie Robinson

    NEW YORKERS NO. 0478

    Broke the major league color line with the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947. Every team now wears his number once a year

    SPORT KEYSTONE

  • Jeremy Lin

    @jlin7

    The Knicks guard whose 2012 run at the Garden became Linsanity. Two weeks the city never forgot

    SPORT

  • Joe DiMaggio

    NEW YORKERS NO. 0481

    The Yankee Clipper, who hit safely in 56 straight games in 1941. The streak still stands alone

    SPORT

  • Kevin Durant

    @kdtrey5

    NBA scoring champion who played for the Brooklyn Nets and co founded the media company Boardroom. The court and the table

    SPORT

  • Lou Gehrig

    NEW YORKERS NO. 0480

    The Yankees first baseman who played 2,130 straight games and called himself the luckiest man on earth. Iron Horse, soft goodbye

    SPORT

  • Odell Beckham Jr.

    @obj

    Wide receiver whose one handed catch for the Giants in 2014 became instant legend. Three fingers, forever

    SPORT

  • Patrick Ewing

    NEW YORKERS NO. 0484

    The Hall of Fame center who carried the Knicks through fifteen seasons at the Garden. Every night but the ring

    SPORT

  • Pete Alonso

    @pete_alonso20

    Mets first baseman nicknamed the Polar Bear, who set the rookie home run record with 53 in 2019. Queens runs cold and hits hard

    SPORT

  • Spencer Dinwiddie

    @sdinwiddie_25

    The Brooklyn Nets guard who set out to tokenize his own contract. The player tried to own the paper

    SPORT

  • Sue Bird

    @s10bird

    Syosset born point guard who won four WNBA titles and five Olympic gold medals. Passes first, rings later

    SPORT

  • Yogi Berra

    NEW YORKERS NO. 0482

    Yankees catcher who won ten World Series rings and a language of his own. Nonsense that turned out to be wisdom

    SPORT

Food

5 people

  • Dominique Ansel

    @dominiqueansel

    Pastry chef who invented the Cronut at his Spring Street bakery in 2013. The line went around the block

    FOOD

  • Josh Capon

    Flyfish Club chef

    Chef behind Lure Fishbar who leads the kitchen at Flyfish Club. Fish first, fuss last

    FOOD

  • Marcus Samuelsson

    @marcuscooks

    Chef behind Red Rooster Harlem, cooking on Lenox Avenue. A plate that tells a neighborhood

    FOOD

  • Martha Stewart

    @marthastewart

    The lifestyle authority of home, garden and kitchen, who also released NFTs. The perfect pie, on chain

    FOOD

  • Tom Colicchio

    @tomcolicchio

    Chef behind Craft and a cofounder of Gramercy Tavern, head judge on Top Chef. Simple food, sharp knife

    FOOD

Politics and civic

20 people

  • Aaron Burr

    NEW YORKERS NO. 0469

    Third vice president of the United States, who shot Alexander Hamilton at Weehawken in 1804. Won the duel, lost the story

    POLITICS AND CIVIC

  • Alexander Hamilton

    NEW YORKERS NO. 0468

    The immigrant who built the Treasury and the credit the country still runs on. A ten dollar face on a system that outlived him

    POLITICS AND CIVIC KEYSTONE

  • Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

    @AOC

    Bronx born member of Congress who won the NY-14 seat in 2018 after working as a bartender. From behind the bar to the floor

    POLITICS AND CIVIC

  • Andrew Yang

    @andrewyang

    Entrepreneur who ran for president in 2020 and for New York City mayor in 2021. From startups to the ballot

    POLITICS AND CIVIC

  • Bella Abzug

    NEW YORKERS NO. 0654

    Lawyer and Manhattan congresswoman known for her wide brimmed hats and her fight. They called her Battling Bella

    POLITICS AND CIVIC

  • Bernie Sanders

    @BernieSanders

    Brooklyn born senator from Vermont who ran twice for president. The accent never moved north

    POLITICS AND CIVIC

  • Boss Tweed

    NEW YORKERS NO. 0474

    Tammany Hall boss who ran a ring that drained the city treasury. A cartoonist brought the whole machine down

    POLITICS AND CIVIC

  • David Dinkins

    NEW YORKERS NO. 0656

    The 106th mayor of New York City and its first Black mayor, from 1990 to 1993. Called the city a gorgeous mosaic

    POLITICS AND CIVIC

  • Donald Trump

    @realDonaldTrump

    Queens born real estate developer who built Trump Tower and was twice elected president. The name went up in gold

    POLITICS AND CIVIC

  • Ed Koch

    NEW YORKERS NO. 0655

    Three term mayor who greeted New Yorkers on subway platforms asking how he was doing. The question was the job

    POLITICS AND CIVIC

  • Eric Adams

    @ericadamsfornyc

    Retired police captain who became Brooklyn borough president and then the 110th mayor of New York City. From the beat to City Hall

    POLITICS AND CIVIC

  • Fiorello La Guardia

    NEW YORKERS NO. 0475

    Served three terms as mayor and read the Sunday funnies on the radio during a newspaper strike. The Little Flower, the city's voice

    POLITICS AND CIVIC

  • Marsha P. Johnson

    NEW YORKERS NO. 0649

    Activist and Stonewall figure who cofounded STAR with Sylvia Rivera. Flowers in the hair, fists in the air

    POLITICS AND CIVIC

  • Michael Bloomberg

    @MikeBloomberg

    Founded Bloomberg LP and served three terms as mayor of New York. The city, run by the numbers

    POLITICS AND CIVIC

  • Peter Stuyvesant

    NEW YORKERS NO. 0588

    Last Dutch director general of New Netherland, who surrendered New Amsterdam to the English in 1664. His farm is now the East Village

    POLITICS AND CIVIC

  • Robert Moses

    NEW YORKERS NO. 0477

    Master builder who shaped New York with parkways, bridges, beaches and expressways. Never drove, built the city for cars

    POLITICS AND CIVIC KEYSTONE

  • Ruth Bader Ginsburg

    NEW YORKERS NO. 0652

    Brooklyn born Supreme Court justice who served from 1993 to 2020 and argued landmark gender equality cases. The dissent became the collar

    POLITICS AND CIVIC

  • Shirley Chisholm

    NEW YORKERS NO. 0651

    Bed Stuy educator who became the first Black woman elected to Congress and then ran for president. She called herself unbought and unbossed

    POLITICS AND CIVIC

  • Sonia Sotomayor

    NEW YORKERS NO. 0653

    Bronx native who became the first Hispanic justice of the Supreme Court. Read her way up

    POLITICS AND CIVIC

  • Sylvia Rivera

    NEW YORKERS NO. 0648

    Activist of the Stonewall era who cofounded STAR to house homeless trans youth. Fought the street and the movement

    POLITICS AND CIVIC

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