Nicole Ruggiero have been making 3D art since 2016, and digital art since she was a kid. She was originally inspired by video games, the internet, and manga. Most of her work now is about community and tech and still takes a lot of influence from what originally inspired her.
Nicole does commercial work, commissions, fine artwork, and curation. She has worked with brands such as Porsche, Lady Gaga, Calvin Harris, Adult Swim, Snapchat, and New York Times. Her recent exhibitions are as follows: a group exhibition at Art Basel Miami with Superchief and H+ (2022), a solo show at 11 Newel Gallery in Brooklyn, NY (2022), a group show with SuperRare in Manhattan, NY (2022), Christie’s viewing exhibition during Art Dubai (2022), a group exhibition at HEK Basel during Art Basel Switzerland (2021), a group exhibition at Kunsthalle Düsseldorf Germany (2021), and an international billboard exhibition with Porsche (2021).
NFT Biennial x Vellum LA x UnicornDAO presents “POSTGENDER”. The exhibition aims to bring forth conversations about postgenderism between artists, collectives, curators and audiences.
POSTGENDER runs January 26 - February 12, 2023 at Vellum LA. Artworks will be presented on state-of-the-art LED Luma Canvas displays, and powered by Tezos.
Human after all. A collective of creatives moves past the paradigm of defined terminology into a transhumanist manifesto. We are the new undefined state of gender, one that presents fluid utopic dynamics in shaping oneness. What if we, as a culture, moved past traditional gender roles into new states of identity? What would we call it?
As technology and art pave the way for our identities which thrive in safe spaces beyond our physical bodies into celestial realms of avatar gender bending sources. We are anything we wish to be. The exhibition explores what it means for us as a collective of progressive individuals to develop a new language to overcome the paradigms of archaic gendered narratives.
The exhibition invites local and global audiences alike to engage with their practices through a physical exhibition at Vellum LA on Melrose and digitally through the NFT Biennial Metaverse.
