10 Female Crypto Artists to Keep an Eye On

Discover the works of female visual artists selling their art on NFT marketplaces

As the crypto art market grows, it is becoming more and more male-dominated. While the overwhelming majority of artists embracing this market are male, more and more women are beginning to band together to help each other get a foot in the door of virtual galleries where they can access the highest-paying collectors.

Below is a list of ten female creatives—designers, illustrators, animators, and digital photographers—who are active in the NFT community. They all seek to gain better exposure and do so through collaborations, mutual recommendations, and sharing their artworks online.

Blake Kathryn

United States

Blake has been the talk of the town recently for her collaboration with Paris Hilton on an art piece called Iconic Crypto Queen. The artwork was sold at auction by the Nifty Gateway gallery for $1,111,211. Blake’s name, however, was already known in the world of 3D animation before Paris chose her to create her first collection. Her sexy and fantastical exploration of dreamlike landscapes had already been popular on social media. Blake also has a Twitch account, in which she talks about art while showing her creative processes.

Paloma Rincón

Mexico

Paloma is a Latin American artist who uses her art to connect with the country where she was born and grew up in. Her images frequently depict motifs related to summers in Acapulco, Mexican cuisine, and flowers native to the country.

Paloma’s images, which she sells on the Foundation online gallery, are fixed and static. Her latest artwork, inspired by her childhood vacations, has a value of $3,922.

Anna Zhilyaeva

France

Anna’s work is a source of amazement even within the animation world. As a virtual reality artist, her pieces are created for and can only be appreciated through VR devices. She is a pioneer in mixed reality art and has performed live all over the world, including in the Louvre, in Paris. During a three-hour performance at the museum, she interacted digitally with the famous Liberty Leading the People painting. The video of her performance is being auctioned on the SupeRare platform, and offers gravitate toward the $30,000 price tag.

Jenisu

Japan

This Japanese digital illustrator is inspired by technology, architecture, vintage aesthetics, and interior design to create an attractive imaginary world set in realistic scale and perspective. Her distinctive features are a palette of pop colors and highly detailed outlines.

Gala Mirissa

Spain

Gala Mirissa is a digital artist based in Barcelona and Tarragona. She combines photography and graphic art with animation to create a universal language. She was a finalist in the 2018 Visual Artists Awards in Miami for the Technical Innovation category. She was also shortlisted for the category Women in Multimedia Art at the Women Cinemakers International Biennial.

Maalavidaa

France

Alicia Rainaud is a French graphic designer and digital artist who, in her abstract work, explores the mental processes that she experiences through Jungian therapy, meditation, and visual experimentation. The artist considers art as a medium to elevate mental intelligence and corporal sensitivity. She also specializes in branding, programming, and UX design.

Krista Kim

Canada

Krista Kim is the founder of the Techism movement, which explores the convergence of art with technology, and technological innovation as a medium to promote the development of digital humanism. She believes that artists must be at the forefront of technological innovation. Recently, Krista sold the first “digital home” in the NFT world for $500,000. She created the house with the game engine software Unreal Engine by Epic Games, which allows for interactive tours of the property.

Diana Coatu

Romania

Diana is a digital artist based in Sibiu, Romania. After working as a pediatrician for 26 years, she discovered her artistic side and found her true expression in digital art. She explains that her artworks aim to reveal the “holofractographic” nature of the universe, and they are journeys to different dimensions, archetypes, and quantic dimensions.

Baeige

Canada

Baeige is a self-taught artist from Vancouver whose work reflects her appreciation for dreamlike state architecture and landscapes. She shares artwork inspired by her personal emotions. Her more recent piece, Ocean Growth, which sold for $28,000, was created on the day she decided to quit her conventional job to dedicate herself to fulfilling her dreams in multimedia art.
Ocean Growth.

Smeccea

Canada

Smecchea is a Canadian motion designer whose work examines abstract ideas, spirituality, and personal discovery. She has made a name for herself on TikTok. She streams her art and game-creating processes on the platform and offers technical tips to other animators.

The emergence of new digital art galleries, or marketplaces, buying and selling certified digital artwork, has generated a lot of interest in the world of digital artists, such as the ten female designers we have listed above.

What are NFTs?

NFTs, or non-fungible tokens, are a type of encrypted code assigned to a digital item to identify it as unique and give it value in the art market.
Tokenization consists of registering the data that identifies the artwork in a single unit, which comprises all the information about the piece: the artist’s name, the year in which it was created, its classification, estimated price, and anything else that identifies it and proves its authenticity.

The NFT of an artwork is what a collector acquires when he buys it.
To learn how to tokenize your art and the costs involved in generating an NFT, check out what other artists have done in this blog post.

You can also explore this topic in Art Direction and Creativity in Movement, the Domestika course taught by creative duo Les Flaminguettes.

English version by @acesarato

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