10 Digital Artists: Women in digital arts you need to know
Women in the field of digital arts are innovative, powerful, and amazing! We’re all for supporting the presence and participation of diverse perspectives in the digital arts world, and forever grateful for the talented women from all backgrounds who bring a fresh perspective to art, storytelling, and design.
Also by encouraging and supporting women in digital arts, we empower a new generation of talented individuals, inspiring them to pursue their passions and carve out successful careers. Ultimately, ensuring gender equality in the digital arts not only benefits women but also leads to a more vibrant and dynamic industry that thrives on a multitude of voices and perspectives.
Here’s to breaking away from traditional stereotypes, and fostering a more inclusive and representative industry!
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.
We’ve gathered a list of 10 (more) talented female digital artists who are pushing the boundaries of digital expression by experimenting with several forms and techniques like artificial intelligence, 3D animation, digital illustration, and more.
Scroll to learn more about them! Here’s the featured artists:FragmatistaSophie Capshaw-MackYashika KalraMelissa WiederrechtMaryjane MJCheesetalkCHiKAStephy FungErin McGeanSofia CrespoLet's be friends on Instagram!
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Giselle Angeles, better known as Fragmatista in the digital arts world, is a Peruvian 3D motion designer, multidisciplinary digital artist, and art director based in New York City.
She works with installations and immersive experiences, exploring 3D creative design and digital worlds. She has collaborated with international design studios and brands including UEFA Champions League, Dell, Adidas Originals, and Vogue Magazine.
Known for depicting organic forms of plants, insects, reptiles, and their continuous dance-like movements in our interconnected ecosystem, Fragmatista’s art invites us to see nature with fresh eyes.
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Sophie Capshaw-Mack is an experimental artist who investigates the nature of consciousness. She creates beautiful art and collages using photography, video, and poetry to ponder philosophy, ethics, and metaphysics — and to navigate her mental health.
Sophie holds a master’s in environmental science and policy from Columbia University, where she was an Environmental Fellow at the School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA). Sophie earned her bachelor’s in philosophy from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she was a Burch Fellow and a Parr Center for Ethics Fellow.
Sophie is particularly inspired by the idea of panpsychism, which posits that consciousness is ever-present in our universe. To explore this notion, Sophie imagines vibrant dreamscapes as an attempt to respond to existential questions.
Read our interview with Sophie to learn more about her art, creative process, and inspirations.
Yashika Kalra is a self-taught visual artist and brand designer from India. She specializes in portraiture as well as conceptual and surreal art. Her work has been exhibited at CoinBase Conference and Art Basel Miami, and she has been featured in publications like Hindustan Times and Business Today.
Her art is a reflection, she says, of the “profound strangeness of the collective human experience.” Yashika Kalra explores the concepts of love, pain, and dreams while creating a world that represents the internal space of a human soul.
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Melissa Wiederrecht is a generative artist and a mother of five from the US who is currently based in Saudi Arabia. She decided to become a full-time generative artist after getting her MS degree in computer science and working on generative Surface Pattern Design. Since getting in the NFT space she has exhibited her art worldwide and has been featured in major publications like Fortune and Forbes.
“Sometime in high school, I had a sort of “life-defining-moment” when I found a book called “Flash Math Creativity” that showed how to use math to make art in Flash. It was then I realized that both of my passions could be combined, coding and art, and was able to make some real generative art for the first time. Having nothing better to do with my art back then, I made myself animated screensavers.”
Her design background and immersion in the Islamic culture lets her create beautiful and unique art. Her generative art project, Sudfah, for instance, was inspired by “the messiness and uncontrollable nature of life and the beauty that can emerge from perceived mistakes and failures.” Sudfah is Arabic for “happy accident” and the project was curated on the Art Blocks platform in June 2022.
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Maryjane (Designwithmj) is a digital artist and illustrator from Lagos, Nigeria. She creates digital portraits and 3D cinematic renders and is also a certified Robotic Engineer. She has worked with ElewaTV, Shecluded, United Nations, and Data4SDGs.
Maryjane’s art concentrates on black culture and community. She creates to turn fear into hope; to empower her community to feel proud of their culture and highlight their unique identities.
“As Human we are connected to our emotions based on relationships, ethnicity, our wins, failures and a lot more. Though most leaves SCARS we can always find the STARS in them.”
Make sure to visit Her Crown VR Showcase to see Maryjane’s meaningful art and learn more about her inspirations.
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Yuqian Sun, better known as Cheesetalk in the digital arts world, is an AI artist and researcher based in London. She is currently a PhD student at the Royal College of Art Computer Science Research Center and an art consultant of rct.ai.
Her main interest being AI narratives, Cheesetalk explores chatbots in her art, games, and animations. Her game 1001 Nights allows the player to write stories through natural language with AI. The game is based on Arabic folklore, but the player can affect the direction of the game and create new stories using a text-generation algorithm.
Another brilliant project Cheesetalk brought into life using AI is Protoplasm. It’s an animation series of AI-generated art based on memories of violence against women. With machine learning technologies, AI turns text into images and creates visual expressions of hidden words. A portion of the income generated from the NFT sales is donated to charities that help women.
“We’re here to remember and evolve, breathing, building blocks of hope and memories.”
If you’re interested in AI and its cutting-edge implications, you need to follow Cheesetalk’s art and research for inspiration!
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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 is teaching 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 — East and 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.”
Erin McGean is a collage artist who’s based in Toronto. She has a background in Fine Art and Education and has been working as a full-time artist for over 15 years. Her work has been featured in various publications and art collections, including as part of the Nature in the Digital Age at The NFT Gallery.
Through her work, Erin McGean explores the interplay between visual culture, personal identity, and the evolving narrative of human history. By using vintage images, the artist invites the viewer to reimagine future paths shaped by past ideologies — she inspires personal growth and deeper insights by combining reimagines futures with the influences of the past.
“Animating my collages through stop motion has not only given me the opportunity to explore time and motion, it also adds a new layer of depth and complexity to the analog work bringing the static image to life. Augmented reality allows the viewer to enjoy the elements moving and interacting with one another while engaging with the still version using their device.”
Stephy Fung is a digital fashion artist based in UK. She designs virtual clothing using Adobe Suite, Cinema4D, Clo3d, Substance Painter, and Daz3D, and has worked with clients such as Dell, Snapchat, Glenfiddich & Highsnobiety, Jo Malone, Paco Rabanne, Xbox, Vogue Singapore, and Selfridges.
Stephy Fung’s work is recognizable for its vibrant colors and balanced composition, which is an homage to her Chinese heritage. Her designs fuse modern styling with traditional Chinese elements while letting her explore her own British-Chinese identity.
She is also a prolific content creator educator — she has created a course on Digital Streetwear Design in CLO 3D and Cinema 4D, and shares her tips on digital fashion design on Instagram, Youtube, and Twitch.
She is an incredible inspiration for any digital artist interested in designing virtual clothes — make sure to follow her work!
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Sofia Crespo is an artist interested in biological processes and machine learning. She holds degrees in applied computer science, art direction, and literature and philosophy and is the co-founder of Entangled Others Studio. Her work has been featured in exhibitions all around the world and she has been invited to talk at workshops and panels worldwide.
Sofia Crespo explores how organic species use artificial mechanisms to evolve. She believes that these technologies are a product, therefore a natural part, of life. She investigates AI’s impact on artistic aesthetics as well as the role of artists while drawing similarities between a human’s cognition of the world and the techniques of AI image formation.
Neural Zoo is a brilliant collection of AI-generated art. Sofia Crespo breaks down creativity as “recombination of known elements into novel ones,” and shares images from an imagined nature using neural networks. The result feels as familiar as is foreign, and it’s mesmerizing.
“Our visual cortex recognizes the textures, but the brain is simultaneously aware that those elements don’t belong to any arrangement of reality that it has access to. Computer vision and machine learning could offer a bridge between us and a speculative “natures” that can only be accessed through high levels of parallel computation.”
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