10 Digital Artists: Women in digital arts you need to know
Creativity is a force that defies boundaries, reshapes narratives, and drives conversations — and would be extremely boring if only men did it. So here’s a list of female digital artists whose work sparks inspiration in so many shapes and forms in the colorful world of digital art!
These artists are pushing the boundaries of digital expression by experimenting with several forms and techniques, such as artificial intelligence, 3D animation, digital illustration, and touching the depths of human emotions and challenging societal norms.
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 gathered 10 (more) talented women digital artists you need to know about to get inspired and extend your horizons.
Here’s the featured artists! Scroll to learn more about them:GhostrystoreEmpress TrashKate AnomalitLuna IkutaRebecca RoseLethabo HumaEmily XieIda KvetnyWildy MartinezIbuki KuramochiLet's be friends on Instagram!
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Cait Lamas, also known as Ghostrystore in the digital arts world, is a digital artist who’s born, raised, and based in Atlanta, Georgia. At the core of Ghostrystore’s work is a fascination with death, the unknown, the afterlife, the ethereal, and the fantastical.
Her art genre called “Magical Digitalism,” created by the artist herself, features fantastical, otherworldly elements, such as mythical creatures, natural landscapes, and mystical objects through the lens of technology.
Ghostrystore depicts the concepts of love, nature, death and dying in gothic art style using 3d modeling, and invite the viewers into her “afterlife paradise”: “The demons in my work are like your spirit guides into the spirit realm,” she notes.
She has showcased her work in Tokyo, Seoul, Venice, Rome, Barcelona, New York City, and Los Angeles, and won an award for her app idea at MIT, which will be released next year.
“The combination of natural and technological elements in Magical Digitalism often reflects a desire to reconcile the seemingly opposing forces of nature and modern technology. The genre can be seen as a celebration of the possibilities that arise when these two seemingly disparate elements are brought together in creative ways.”
Drea Jay, better known as Empress Trash in digital arts world, makes “art and mistakes.” She holds a BFA degree in Painting, Drawing, and Animation/Design from the University of Iowa and is currently based in Mexico City.
She started creating art in Web3 in 2021 and since then her work has been exhibited worldwide including at Sotheby's, Miami Art Basel, and SXSW.
Empress Trash is best known for her use of glitch and AI to create abstract, surreal, and psychedelic art. Her journey of self-acceptance and self-discovery is reflected in her process-oriented art, which has been a significant coping mechanism for the childhood trauma she suffered.
Her artwork Human Rights//Down Bad, has recently been featured in Sotheby’s auction, Glitch: Beyond Binary. Empress Trash took a photo of three Pussy Riot members in chains as the primary image and utilized AI, Photomosh, and Adobe After Effects to create the gorgeous animated collage.
The artwork was initially called “Women's Rights//Down Bad,” before changing it to emphasize that violation of women’s rights indeed affects all humanity.
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Kate Anomalit is a digital and traditional artist who creates at the intersection of physical and virtual reality. Ever-fascinated by colors, lines, an unknown future, space, and words, Anomalit’s art aims to show that individuality, uniqueness, and freedom from all boundaries and stereotypes are the key to creating a better world.
She is the creator of the Anomalitism universe, which is an investigation of an alternative future. In this universe, there are numerous elements — anomalites — all existing at the same time. Each being a unique entity, together they create a “Picture of the World.”
Her universe represents a brighter, more colorful alternative to ours — even though each element exists independently in this space, they communicate and complement each other. There are infinite possibilities, and no gender or racial identities. Uniqueness is crucial, and celebrated.
“I don’t limit my creativity. I can paint just about anything I can get my hands on. I love working with public spaces and creating indoor installations by breaking geometry with my drawings. I often exhibit my artwork and participate in events where I can show my art. I collaborate with brands with whom we share similar values.”
Luna Ikuta is a multi-disciplinary artist born in Tokyo, Japan and is currently based in Los Angeles. She creates “quality atmospheric experiences” with the help of her background in industrial design.
Ikuta has been making site-specific installations for public art, as well as international brands, musicians, and private collections. She combines traditional craft with modern technology to create objects, films, videos, NFTs, public art, and aquatic works.
Afterlife, her most notable work that has been exhibited in galleries and institutions worldwide, is an installation of ghostly underwater landscapes with gently dancing flowers. She captures the simple beauty of black and white in Afterlife, where time stops at the most peaceful moment ever existed.
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Rebecca Rose is an artist, an ambassador at Known Origin, and a curator based in Florida. She creates sculptural, digital, immersive, and holographic collages that has won awards. The artist has been selected for residencies at Ox-Bow/SAIC and the Joan Mitchell Foundation, and her art has been collected on the blockchain as NFTs.
Her work questions the digital and physical existence of art — as she prints out her digitally-created collages to manipulate and experiment with them, before going back digital to create NFTs, her art blends the distinction between digital and tangible.
She is currently working on bringing her 3D collages into the web3 space as walk-through art installations in the Metaverse. These installations will be brought back into the physical space as life-sized walk through art installation holograms, yet again blurring the lines between the digital and physical.
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Lethabo Huma is a digital artist from Pretoria, South Africa. Her work has been recognized by prestigious art institutions such as Christie's and Sotheby’s, and she has worked with companies like Vodafone and Archive. She has been featured in Time Magazine, The Washington Post, CoinDesk, and more.
She depicts flowers, clouds, sunsets, and gorgeous figures — mostly women — in her works, which feel like memories. She says her work is a reflection of her mental and emotional responses to experiences and serves as a visual diary, exploring her identity.
“To art is to trust yourself.
To art is to open yourself up to the world so much that your story flows freely, without any bounds.
To art is to allow yourself to just be.
To art is to
bloom.”
Lethabo’s art has recently been featured at the exhibition, How High The Moon, at The NFT Gallery in New York City.
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Emily Xie is a visual artist, creative coder, and engineer based in NYC. Her work has been collected and shown internationally including at Kunsthalle Zürich, Unit London, the Armory Show, Bright Moments, Art Blocks, Vellum LA x Artsy.net, Times Square, and the StandardVision Artist Showcase in Los Angeles.
Emily Xie creates generative art that resemble lifelike textures and forms. She is inspired by textiles, collage, and wallpaper and puts these physical media in conversation with digital tools through her art. Her materials and patterns find new meanings and stories in the digital context.
Interwoven, for instance, is a generative art project in which she explores the tradition of quilting while drawing inspirations from the “Bullseye” quilt from 1896 by Martha Lou Jones from the LACMA collection. Her search for a balance between chance versus control, the organic versus the systematic, and the abstract versus the representational brings about beautiful generative artwork of which we’re huge fans.
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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 — it’s 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 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.
AR SCULPTURE - HYPERION DANCE by Ida Kvetny
Wildy Martinez, founder of the creative movement “Wildflower Fields,” is a digital illustrator, fashion designer, mother, and hope dealer born and raised in NYC. She shines her positive heart through mixed media and digital art while bringing awareness to racial prejudices.
As a proud Afro-Latina and 1st Generation Dominican American artist, Wildy celebrates diversity in women via fashion, illustrations, and storytelling as well as collaborations. She creates NFTs to emphasize the beauty of Vitiligo and is an advocate for normalizing natural beauty and celebrating imperfections.
Wildy has recently participated to the Science Summit at the 78th United Nation General Assembly as one of the speakers at the panel of The Evolution of Art and Fashion, and showcased her work at the UNGA78 Latine Art Exhibit.
“My dream has always been to use fashion somehow to do good. How can something that typically is considered to be a vain, make a change in the world. … I use my art to bring awareness of different social issues and to encourage women to embrace their individuality and unique beauty.”
Ibuki Kuramochi is a Japanese-born interdisciplinary artist who is currently based in Los Angeles. Her work has been exhibited in galleries and museums in New York, Los Angeles, Tokyo, Paris, Sydney, Taipei, and Rome.
She incorporates the Japanese modern/contemporary dance Butoh, performance, video, installation, and painting in her art and explores concepts around the body, the resonance of thought and body, metamorphosis, cyborg feminism, and post-human feminism.
Earlier this year, the artist have showcased her work worldwide such as in the virtual exhibition No Beginning No End among Loop Lab’s fourth cohort and in HOMAGE at LUME Studios.
“My work evokes a break from the oblivion of the body in today’s virtual world, and an awakening to a new physicality extracted from the media.”
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