MakersPlace will also exhibit autonomous artist Botto in Paris, along with painter and poet Shurooq Amin in Dubai in partnership with Leila Heller Gallery.
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 7, 2024 – Fresh off the success of Art Week Miami, MakersPlace continues to showcase world-class web3 artists at globally recognized art fairs and galleries. World-renowned artists ThankYouX and Sarah Meyohas will make their MakersPlace debuts to headline NFT Paris and Art Dubai Digital exhibits respectively. Additionally, autonomous artist Botto will return to MakersPlace at NFT Paris after a successful auction at Art Week Miami, while Kuwaiti painter and poet Shurooq Amin will be showcased at Art Dubai Digital in a special gallery partnership with Leila Heller Gallery.
Los Angeles-based artist ThankYouX will make his debut on MakersPlace following a string of recent successes, including his sold-out Ordinals collection and his solo exhibition of physical works with Sotheby’s. For a special presentation at NFT Paris taking place on Feb 23-24, ThankYouX is unveiling a new animated digital artwork that showcases his signature abstract style. The one-of -one artwork will be available for sale on Feb 22, 2024 on makersplace.com.
“At NFT Paris, I am presenting my genesis mint on MakersPlace. The work is a continuation of my desire to explore how the digital medium can expand my practice beyond what would be possible on canvas,” said ThankYouX.
French-American conceptual artist Sarah Meyohas will make her debut on MakersPlace at the company’s first-ever visit to Art Dubai Digital taking place March 1–3. In a booth curated by Senior Director Jessica Marinaro, Meyohas will showcase Infinite Petals, a masterpiece featuring an infinite number of digital rose petals, created with a generative model trained on her own dataset of 100,000 physical rose petals. The work was most recently on view as part of Chanel Culture Fund’s new public art project, The Window, at the Time & Life building on Bruton Street, London.
Additionally, she will exhibit a selection of digital artworks from the Liquid Speculations, her renowned ongoing photographic series, which she creates in the studio using hidden cameras and two-way mirrors to create photographic illusions of mesmerizing infinite loops and perspectival tunnels extending into infinity. The artworks are all minted on Meyohas’ smart contract powered by Transient Labs and will be available for sale on makersplace.com beginning on Feb 27, 2024.
“I am thrilled to be simultaneously making my debut on MakersPlace and at Art Dubai Digital. The Speculations photographs go back to 2014 when I first began thinking about the construction of value and already developing Bitchcoin as a fork of Bitcoin—a token backed by physical artwork. I’ll also be showing Infinite Petals, which in many ways represents where that story ended up: with artist-developed datasets and generative models. I’m excited to share both projects with Dubai and the MakersPlace community.“
Art Dubai Digital also marks the first time that MakersPlace will partner with contemporary art gallery, Leila Heller Gallery. In a synergistic collaboration, MakersPlace will power interdisciplinary artist Shurooq Amin’s exhibit at Leila Heller Gallery’s booth, which will feature digital artworks that unlock physical paintings. The partnership galvanizes MakersPlace’s focus on galleries as a path to showcase the artistic talents of web3, after launching a physical gallery in Carmel-by-the-Sea last year.
Also featured at NFT Paris in the MakersPlace booth, curated by Senior Director Caitlin Cruickshank, will be the return of autonomous artist Botto with a special presentation of a limited run of special-edition prints that will come with an animated digital version of the print. This will be the first time that the BottoDAO has approved a print edition of Botto’s output. The limited edition will be available for sale on makersplace.com on Feb 22, 2024. MakersPlace will also present selected works by Urs Fischer, Osinachi and Jenni Pasanen.
“Our lineup at NFT Paris and Art Dubai Digital reflects MakersPlace’s commitment to bridging the worlds of traditional and digital art. Showcasing renowned artists like ThankYouX, Sarah Meyohas, and Shurooq Amin alongside innovative projects like Botto emphasizes our focus on elevating digital art in blue-chip galleries and real-world exhibits,” said Craig Palmer, CEO of MakersPlace.
About MakersPlace
MakersPlace is the premier fine-art marketplace to discover and buy authentic digital art from the world’s leading artists. Launched in 2018, MakersPlace helped catapult digital art onto the global stage with the historic sale of Beeple’s Everydays: The First 5000 Days for $69.3 million in partnership with Christie’s auction house in March 2021 — the record price for any digital artwork. Our mission is simple: to enable a vibrant future for digital creativity.
MakersPlace stands at the forefront of an exciting new era in art, where digital and physical worlds converge. Its future initiatives focus on deepening collaborations with top-tier web3 artists and expanding partnerships with world-class galleries and curators. Moving forward, MakersPlace is committed to catalyzing this transformative movement, continually pushing the boundaries of art and technology.
About The Artists
ThankYouX
ThankYouX, a painter from Los Angeles, California, began his artistic career in 2009. Starting as an acclaimed yet anonymous street artist, over the last fifteen years, his work has evolved into experimentation with geometric forms and layered abstraction that is now internationally recognized. As an enthusiastic proponent of emerging technology, ThankYouX expanded his artistic practice in 2020, when he started exploring and creating digital blockchain-based artwork. He quickly became one of the leaders in the space, bridging the gap between traditional art and Web 3.0.
Sarah Meyohas
Sarah Meyohas (b. 1991, New York) is a pioneering contemporary artist and futurist. Her work can be found in over 400 private and public collections, and has been exhibited at major institutions such as the Centre Pompidou, Paris and the New Museum, New York. She is represented by Marianne Boesky Gallery, a leading contemporary art gallery, as well as the United Talent Agency for her work in film. Her film Cloud of Petals has been screened at various film festivals around the world, and the short film documenting Cloud of Petals is in the permanent collection of the Centre Pompidou, alongside two examples from Bitchcoin, Meyohas’s historic proto-NFT from 2015. In 2017 she was named to the Forbes 30 under 30 list.
Meyohas’s practice engages the fields of contemporary art, technology, and finance, often investigating emerging technologies ahead of widespread adoption. Investigating the intricacies of a broad range of media, including photography, film, holography, artificial intelligence, and the blockchain, Meyohas unearths potential connections among nature, culture, technology, and humanity.
Botto
Botto is a decentralized autonomous artist created in 2021. Botto generates works of art based on collective feedback from community members of the BottoDAO. Every week, Botto finishes and sells artwork via a series of models and crowdsourced evaluations of over 5,000 people who also decide how to manage the artist and its sales. Botto has been exhibited worldwide, including Art Week Miami, Venice Biennale, and NFT Paris. Additionally, Botto was recently named “Digital Artist of the Year” at the Digital Art Fair Asia.
Shurooq Amin
Affectionately known as “Kuwait’s OG NFT Queen,” Shurooq Amin has been a fine artist for the last 30 years. She was the first Kuwaiti female artist to exhibit at the Venice Biennale, and the first female Kuwaiti artist to be auctioned at Christie’s. Amin moved into the NFT space in early 2021 to avoid censorship of her art.
About Leila Heller Gallery
Since its establishment four decades ago, Leila Heller Gallery, with locations in both New York and Dubai, has gained worldwide recognition as a pioneer in promoting creative dialogue and exchange between Western artists and Middle Eastern, Central and Southeast Asian artists.
