Sarah Meyohasb. 1991

Sarah Meyohas (b. 1991, New York) is a conceptual artist and pioneer in the field of crypto art. Meyohas investigates emerging technologies with familiar emblems of biological life: soaring birds, created using augmented-reality software, flock in unison with the frenetic variations of the stock market; rose petals, aggregately identical but individually unique, comprise the dataset for their AI-created equivalents. Meyohas’s practice provides an intelligible visual language to articulate the systems and complex operations that increasingly govern our world.

In 2015, Meyohas created Bitchcoin, a cryptocurrency backed by her physical artwork, which questioned the speculative value of cryptocurrency and the ineffable value of art. Predating the launch of Ethereum, Bitchcoin is the first tokenization of physical art on a blockchain, effectively a “proto-NFT.”

Meyohas’s work has been exhibited in New York at Red Bull Arts, 303 Gallery, and the New Museum of Contemporary Art and internationally at institutions including the Barbican Centre, London, the Centre Pompidou, Paris, and the Ming Contemporary Art Museum, Shanghai. She is represented by Marianne Boesky Gallery, as well as the United Talent Agency for her work in film.