Marjan Moghaddam
Digital Artist
Marjan is a renowned, award-winning and widely exhibited Digital and Computer Artist since the '80s. Her art has been featured in major exhibitions including Art Dubai Digital and Art Basel and is the only female artist in the BBC documentary 'When Art Goes Digital', featured between Beeple and XCopy. She has exhibited AR art at the Smithsonian and other museums and made Forbes’ 'Best of AR Art'.
Marjan’s Crypto and NFT Art has sold to top collectors and is held in institutional and DAO collections. Her Quantum NFT drop of 20 animations sold out in less than a minute.
Marjan's digital style is instantly recognizable and already an icon of the NFT art space. This is the definition of digital art as fine art.
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Marjan
Marjan Moghaddam was Adobe’s Artist-in-Residence and is the only female artist featured in the BBC documentary 'When Art Goes Digital', showcased between Beeple and XCopy.
Since 2020, her Crypto and NFT art has been acquired by private collectors, held in institutional and DAO collections, and exhibited in the first NFT museum show. Her 'Quantum' NFT drop of 20 animations sold out in under a minute.
Recently, Marjan won the inaugural NFT Art Prize from Arab Bank Switzerland at NFC Lisbon, and her decades-long digital art career was spotlighted in a full episode of Art TV with Felicity. Her commissioned digital art projects include NFT collections for UNHCR, a permanent sculpture and AR installation at Royal Hillsborough Castle Park in the UK, and a 30-foot inflatable #GlitchGoddess with AR in Downtown Seattle.
Her work has been exhibited at Art Dubai Digital (where her piece was among the "most talked about") and in a solo show at the Digital Art Mile during Art Basel 2024. Marjan is represented by leading galleries like The Unit London, Annka Kultys Gallery, Vellum LA, NFT Factory Paris, and Larsen Warner.
An Iranian-American immigrant and political refugee, Marjan lives and works in Brooklyn, where she is a Tenured Full Professor of Digital Art, Animation, and VFX at LIU’s Brooklyn campus.
Marjan’s style of 3d CG fine arts is called the “Picasso of Digital Art" by fellow Crypto Artists.
Background
Marjan Moghaddam is a renowned, award-winning, pioneering, and widely exhibited Digital and Computer Artist active since the 1980s, known for her unique style of figuration/animation in 3D CG and her critical discourse.
Marjan’s prolific exhibition history began in the 1980s as the resident video artist at the legendary Pyramid Club in the East Village, where she debuted her first computer art piece. She was a featured sponsored artist of the early Internet in 1996, with significant digital art gallery exhibitions in NYC throughout the 1990s. She is a recipient of top awards and grants from prestigious institutions like the Rockefeller Fund and NYSCA, has been selected for Siggraph four times, and has exhibited her commissioned AR art at the Smithsonian and other major museums.
Hailed by the press as a “trailblazer in digital art,” the “Digital Hijacker,” and “the definition of digital fine arts,” her influential #arthacks have gone viral numerous times. She has appeared on Forbes’ Best of AR Art and has been commissioned for international public art. In 2016, she launched her ongoing #arthacks collection of Net Art, hacking her work into found and recorded exhibition footage as mixed reality interventions. This collection has gone viral multiple times, won international awards, and received widespread media coverage.
Marjan was Adobe’s Artist-in-Residence and is the only female artist featured in the BBC documentary When Art Goes Digital, positioned between Beeple and XCopy. Since 2020, her Crypto and NFT art has been acquired by top collections on SuperRare, institutional, and DAO collections, exhibited in the first NFT museum show, and her Quantum NFT drop of 20 animations sold out in under a minute.
Most recently, she won the First NFT Art Prize from Arab Bank Switzerland at NFC Lisbon, and her decades-long prolific career was profiled in a full episode of Art TV with Felicity. Her commissioned digital art projects include NFT collections for UNHCR, a permanent sculpture and AR installation at Royal Hillsborough Castle Park in the UK, and a 30-foot inflatable #GlitchGoddess with AR in Downtown Seattle.
She was recently exhibited at Art Dubai Digital, where her piece was named the “most talked about” digital artwork, and held a solo show at the Digital Art Mile during Art Basel 2024. Marjan has been represented by galleries such as The Unit London, Annka Kultys Gallery, Vellum LA, NFT Factory Paris, and Larsen Warner, to name a few.
An Iranian-American immigrant and political refugee, Marjan lives and works in Brooklyn, where she is a tenured Full Professor of Digital Art, Animation, and VFX at LIU’s Brooklyn campus.
