10 Digital Artists: Augmented Reality Art
Augmented Reality Art has transformed the art world by blending the digital and physical realms into captivating, immersive experiences. From its modest beginnings to its current standing as a powerful medium of artistic expression, AR art continues to captivate audiences worldwide.
With AR art, computer-generated images, videos, or effects are superimposed over a user's real-world view — augmented reality adds new dimensions of shape, motion, and significance to existing works of art or physical locations. One can experience the real world enhanced using AR, and AR art can open up a wonderful new world in our physical space.
Whether you are an artist looking for inspiration, a curator working on an exhibition, or a digital arts fan looking to discover digital artists, this list is for you.
Here’s a list of 10 talented digital artists who create stunning AR artwork that merge physical and digital realms.
Scroll to learn more about them! Here’s the featured artists:Snow Yunxue FuRory ScottCibelle Cavalli BastosBotinaInes AlphaHuntrezzIda KvetnyHarun KöktürkCHiKAEceertrey
AR art: GO_01_Battery Park_01 by CHiKA
Snow Yunxue Fu is a Chinese-American new media artist and curator based in New York City. She is also a full-time Assistant Arts Professor at NYU Tisch School of the Arts, Institute of Emerging Media. She works with imaging technologies including 3D Simulation, AR, and XR to create digital images and installations as well as interactive projects.
As an artist, her work has been exhibited globally and featured in various prestigious media outlets including the New York Times;, and as an academic, she has been invited to presented her research in numerous universities all around the world.
Daughter ICE is the artist’s long-term digital human art project. Using 3D-imaging techniques such as modeling and texturing, she “gave birth” to a virtual daughter as a digital human. The project is an exploration of intimacy across generational, familial, cultural, and continental lines — it is about how international families form deep connections within the virtual realm. You can visit The Metaverse Home of Daughter ICE via Sansar VR platform.
Snow Yunxue Fu’s AR artwork can be found on Instagram as filters, so you can experience her art in your own space!
Snow Yunxue Fu is also featured in 10 Digital Artists: Women in digital arts you need to know
Rory Scott is a creative technologist and multidisciplinary artist who lives in Chicago. She is an Alumni of The School of The Art Institute of Chicago, and has been selected as one of the Kresge Artist Fellows in Literary and Visual Arts in 2023.
Her work is recognized for its use of patterns, glitter, and for its likeness to the Universe. She explores the ideas of impermanence, the passage of time and the impacts of technology upon the evolution of humanity.
We are absolutely in love with her AR dresses she creates for Snapchat and TikTok. Users can bring fashion and fun in any room by using her augmented reality designs as filters on themselves in photos and videos.
Rory Scott is also featured in 10 Digital Artists: Digital Fashion and Style in Web3
Cibelle Cavalli Bastos is a non-binary artist who was born in Brazil and currently lives in Berlin. They have given lectures and workshops and participated as a panelist at events organized by Stanford University Art History, The Graduate Center City University of New York, Goldsmiths University of London’s Fine Art MA, and more.
They graduated in 2015 from the Royal College of Art, London and released four music albums under “Cibelle” and has performed and presented work in prestigious music halls worldwide.
In addition to music, they create digital as well as traditional art to reflect assembling selfhood through fragmented parts of identity — the artist is known for their immersive installations, augmented reality art, AI art, performances, paintings, ceramics, sculptures, video, photography, and text. They reuse and repurpose data in consideration of the many forms one can occupy and explore transformation from positions of the in-between.
You can find Cibelle Cavalli Bastos’ AR artwork as filters on Instagram and enhance your physical environment with their art!
Cibelle Cavalli Bastos is also featured in 10 Digital Artists: LGBTQIA+ digital artists you should know
“Not a woman, nor a man, an aevtar interface”
Botina is a digital artist who creates augmented reality art, 3D animations, and videos, as well as literature and music. His artistic universe is rooted in deep and poetic visions and finds expression in bold and fresh aesthetics.
Botina’s art explores the idea of freedom, and uses the search of beauty and meaning through technology as his tool. His work has been featured in books, music compilations, digital art galleries, fairs, and augmented reality exhibitions in Europe, North America, and South America.
The first time he started working with augmented reality, the artist was selected to feature his art at CADAF’s Digital Art Month and Crypto Digital Art Fair in Paris. The artist remembers the experience as being very difficult, but then equally rewarding. AR art revealed that a whole new territory with so many things to learn and experience lied ahead of him, and Botina never stopped exploring this realm ever since.
Read our interview with Botina to learn more about his art, creative process, and inspirations!
“In a future filled with bots and deepfakes, where everything and everyone is programmed to love and hate the same things, choosing to be forever free and forever human is imperative. Poetry, splendor and symbolism inhabit all things: there are no banal subjects, only shallow perceptions.”
Ines Alpha is digital artist based in Paris. She is best known for her 3D makeup series, with which she started experimenting while working as an art director in advertising with specialty in beauty and luxury. Her goal is to encourage a fun and creative approach to makeup and self expression.
Her art pushes further the boundaries of makeup and beauty using 3D softwares and augmented reality — the artist creates enchanted and fantastic versions of reality without any physical restraints. Her 3D makeup effects defies gravity, features iridescent textures, and grows flowers out of one’s skin.
She has collaborated with brands like ALLURE, Burberry x GQ, Nike, Dior Makeup, and has exhibited art in festivals, conventions, and exhibitions worldwide, such as in Montreal, Lisbon, Berlin, New York, and Paris.
She has recently collaborated with Prada Beauty, and created a creative e-makeup series, for which she reimagined Prada’s prints in digital beauty form. Also recently she has showcased her 3D makeup art at Palais Augmenté 3, the third edition of the first festival dedicated to artistic creation in augmented reality and immersive cultural innovations in France.
While fantasizing what complete aesthetic freedom of one’s appearance would look like, Ines Alpha allows people to experiment with this kind of freedom via AR filters — You can try her augmented reality makeup effects as filters using Snapchat or Instagram!
Huntrezz Janos is an Afro-Hungarian digital artist born in Los Angeles in 1996. She holds a degree in Experimental Animation from California Institute of the Arts and creates works in various mediums such as painting, music, animation, and performance. Her work has been featured in Junglepussy’s MAIN ATTRACTION video, Tate Britain’s Late at TateSeries, and a group exhibition named Beyond Embodiment at the Brand Art Center in LA.
In her words, she is a trans-fem alien that has evolved alongside humanity since days yet to come, as she exists in a quantum state and makes art in a future that has long passed.
For her 2020 solo exhibition, Infilteriterations at Transfer Gallery, she takes her experience of systemic violence and exclusion as a black, non-binary artist and offers new realities using augmented reality. Huntrezz’s face filters explore concepts of identity by creating impossible characters of a fantasy world where the oppressed can rise up, defeat their aggressors, and reclaim agency and authority.
While her protest videos cry for justice against police brutality in the US during the social justice uprising of 2020, her art presents a future of equality and freedom, and empowerment to self-realization for anyone.
“I have been exploring my own identity through avatars made to my own design – moving sculptures in another dimension – a virtual projection of beings clothed in impossible garments that do not adhere to norms and rules that govern our space. Faces to be shared among people and objects without space.”
Huntrezz is also featured in 10 Digital Artists: LGBTQIA+ digital artists you should know
Ida Kvetny, is an interdisciplinary artist based in Copenhagen, Denmark. She creates digital versions of her analog paint and clay works using VR, AR, and AI technologies. In addition to her site-specific works, the artist showcases her virtual universes and augmented sculptures worldwide.
Her work has been featured in shows in Denmark, New York, London, Berlin, Los Angeles, and more. The artist has received several grants and awards, including The Royal Scottish Academy Painters Prize, Yelva Nimb Honoray Scholarship, and Niels Wessel Baggers Foundation grant, and has been selected as the artist in residence by prestigeous foundations in Europe and the US.
Ida Kvetny has founded Radar Contemporary in collaboration with artist Diana Velasco, which is an artist driven virtual platform that focuses on artists working with new technology and classical art forms.
She has recently celebrated the opening of her solo show, Handmade, at Charlotte Fogh Gallery in Aarhus, Denmark — the exhibition features Ida Kvetny’s sculptures, mixed media paintings, and AR avatars.
The pioneering artist at the intersection of physical and digital art creates stunning immersive art experiences using advanced technology. Follow her art for brilliant virtual reality and augmented reality works that bridge the virtual to the tangible, and the past to the future.
Harun Köktürk is a Berlin-based multidisciplinary artist and mixed reality creator from Turkey. He specializes in graphic design, artificial intelligence, and augmented reality.
The artist explores cutting-edge technology and digital art to create otherworldly experiences that merge the physical and digital realms. Using augmented reality and AI, Harun Köktürk continuously pushes the boundaries of art and design.
His AR artwork breathing was featured as a part of CADAF’s Digital Art Month NYC in 2021 — it’s an augmented reality face mask adorned with a hybrid of gold and diamond. In his words, “breathing creates a bridge that connects you with your Aura to make it illuminate, radiate and enhance to the fullest. breathing reminds you to shine bright at all times!”
Harun Köktürk is a prolific creator of Instagram AR face filters, you should try them yourself using the app!
CHiKA is a multidisciplinary artist, performing VJ, technologist, researcher, and educator who was born in Japan and is currently based in New York. Her work has been shown worldwide at venues and festivals such as the American Museum of Natural History, the Museum of Art and Design, and NY Hall of Science. She teaches at ITP, NYU, and Queens College.
She uses a Japanese homophone and the latest technology to create visual sculptures and site-specific interactive light installations for the public to interact with. Her work is inspired by her experiences living in and oscillating between opposite worlds, the East and the West.
CHiKA creates an experiential environment for an audience to interact with the invisible and the visible, or the concept and the physical installation. For instance, her ongoing AR project GO represents her augmented reality art in the most iconic spots in New York City, juxtaposing the non-physical with the physical.
“… within this duality [of East and West], I have perceived the divergences and resonances amidst the non-physical and the physical, the invisible and the visible, between the latest technology and minimalism, amidst Japanese philosophy, Zen, Taoism, Symbolism, visual content, light design, experimental sound, and between the world of old history, and high tech society, a juxtaposition where I grew up.”
Eceertrey is an augmented reality artist, virtual reality sculptor, and photographer who is based in Denver. Starting as a photographer over 15 years ago, he has taught himself various 3D software and became known for his AR art.
The artist’s deep passion for nature and a longing to explore the mountainous regions of the western USA allowed him to find his signature style — Eceertrey’s VR/AR sculptures can be found purposefully and beautifully placed in outdoor natural environments.
He has showcased work worldwide including NYC, Paris, and Miami, and has worked with brands like Nike, Adobe, Wired, Meta, and more. Eceertrey is an avid supporter of NFTs and cryptocurrency, and offers his art for purchase on the Ethereum blockchain.
Calling himself a “Mixed Reality Spatial Computing Imagination Exporter,” the artist brings his imagination to beautiful landscapes using AR — and we are all for it.
“I explore nature and the environment and incorporate objects from my imagination into our reality creating my own hybrid world.”
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