10 Digital Artists: Women in digital arts you need to know
We’re unsure if Laurel Thatcher Ulrich was talking about digital artists when she said “well-behaved women rarely make history,” but when it comes to these 10 artists she might as well have been.
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.
Numerous female artists create astounding digital artworks every single day, yet the industry tends to promote and feature the same handful of male artists. So, here is a list of female digital artists you need to know about to get inspired and extend your horizons.
We gathered 10 talented women digital artists who create gorgeous artworks by pushing the boundaries of digital expression and experimenting with several forms and techniques, such as artificial intelligence and traditional classic arts.
Scroll down to learn more about them! Here’s the featured artists:TripuraSaeko EharaRenderfruitLu MartinezAna María CaballeroArda BahaMaike KollerSasha StilesTanisha LahaneSnow Yunxue FuLet's be friends on Instagram!
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Maria Agureeva, known as Tripura in the digital arts world, is a Ukrainian interdisciplinary artist based in Los Angeles. Her work includes digital art, sculpture, installation, performance, 3D motion graphics, and video.
Her art is inspired, in her words, by “the relationship between the global human body and the body of nature in the future, new forms of life, chimeras, boundless bodies, and interpretations of Love.”
Tripura’s artworks have been exhibited in various solo and group exhibitions throughout New York, Los Angeles, Miami, Moscow, Regensburg, Venice, Saint-Petersburg, Vienna, Milan, and Berlin.
Follow her work for beautiful representations of the human heart and her descriptions of them that make you think about the broader concept of love and existence.
Read our interview with Tripura to learn more about her art and inspirations!
Saeko Ehara is a Kirakira (Japanese word for glitter, glisten, twinkle) artist and video journalist based in Tokyo. She represents Kirakira motifs such as jewels and flowers in her works and is inspired by the Japanese Anime culture.
Saeko’s inspiration comes from memories and joys of her childhood. She continues to learn and explore the expressions of Kirakira using multiple types of software to make the world full of Kirakira and joy through her art.
Lately, she has been exploring AI images and generative arts. With a background in oil painting, she is interested in finding a connection between analog and digital experiences and mixing the old with the new.
We are huge fans of her latest artworks where she blends her signature Kirakira style with classic paintings (by Johannes Vermeer and Gustav Klimt, for instance) using artificial intelligence. You need to see them!
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Renderfruit is a 3D artist, motion designer, and animator based in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She says her works materialize “eerie feelings, flying thoughts, and mood swings.” Driven by inner thoughts and influenced by music, they are multi-layered, eclectic, surreal, and beautiful.
Renderfruit’s art has been exhibited worldwide: at the Frieze Gallery London, in Times Square, and at the Venice Biennale 2022, in addition to her permanent collection at the Brooklyn Museum of Moving Images. She has made visuals and NFTs for Young Thug, Kodak Black, Nike, Faze Clan, and others.
Follow her art for phantasmal representations of the human body, where the futuristic and embryonic merge in a dreamy realm — absolutely stunning.
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Luciana Martinez is an artist and a character creator from Argentina. She makes “sculptures that move.”
Lu Martinez has developed art toys and soft sculptures for private collections all around the world including Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Canada, Sweden, and England, and takes part in stop-motion projects for movies.
The characters she creates, she says, are “extras of an old story, those who live in the mist of the woods, between the branches. Those who escaped and survived the happy ending.”
She has minted some of her stop-motion animations and illustrations of her characters as NFTs and we cannot get enough of them. Follow her art for tiny, weird creatures that no doubt will steal your heart.
Ana María Caballero is a Colombian-American poet and artist who has published award-winning poetry books, short stories, manuscripts, and chapbooks. She is also widely recognized as a web3 poetry pioneer.
She is the co-founder of digital poetry gallery theVERSEverse.com, which utilizes blockchain technology to amplify the value of poems as works of art.
In her words, her work explores “how biology delimits our societal and cultural rites, ripping the veil off romanticized motherhood and questioning notions that package female sacrifice as a virtue.”
The power of Caballero’s digital artworks come from her impeccable use of words, spoken by her gentle voice, compounded with effective visuals — simply perfect.
Arda Baha is a multi-disciplinary artist from Malaysia. She works with 3D animation, traditional abstract paintings, and merchandizing.
She invites us to her “trippy realm” through her psychedelic abstract artworks created using mixed media. Her work has been featured in various digital art exhibitions and festivals including NFT.NYC.
Arda Baha’s digital artworks are outstanding for their psychedelic colors and vibrant animations where she explores concepts of female empowerment and the healing journey of a soul.
Maike Koller is a German-American animator, illustrator, and NFT artist based in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
She studied animation at the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg and visual communication at Kunsthochschule Kassel and currently works as an illustrator. She is also the creator of Hungry Cats, which is a PFP collection of illustrated cats holding your favorite food in festive outfits. Yes, they’re as adorable as they sound.
We are absolutely in love with her new illustration series: “Illustrated in a circle,” where she augments touched photographs with digital illustrations of her signature animals.
Sasha Stiles is a Kalmyk-American poet and digital artist. She is a prominent AI researcher on the intersection of text and technology. Stiles is also the co-founder of theVERSEverse.com, the acclaimed crypto-literary collective.
Her mixed media works have won multiple awards and have been exhibited at prestigious museums and art festivals including Miami Art Week, SXSW, New York Fashion Week, and Virtual Times Square.
Sasha Stiles’ hybrid poetry and artwork investigates artificial intelligence’s concept of humanly communication and consciousness, and her experiments present a brilliant human-machine collaboration that’s incredibly creative and unique.
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Tanisha Lahane is a 3D artist and architect from India. Her art is immediately recognizable for its dreamlike spaces full of warm colors, plants, and clouds.
Her work has been featured at various virtual and in-person exhibitions including NFT.NYC and Empowered By Paris: Empowered Women Empower Women Exhibition.
Follow her work to daydream with her in the surreal spaces she creates.
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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.
Follow Fu’s work for explorations of societal relationships and of sociological, anthropological, and philosophical questions through technology and new media arts.
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