Marjan Moghaddam

Marjan Moghaddam is a renowned, award-winning, and pioneering Digital Artist/Animator, known for her unique Posthumanist style of figuration/animation in 3dCG and a critical discourse. She is recipient of top awards/grants from the likes of Rockefeller Fund, selected for top festivals such as Siggraph (4 times), and is widely exhibited internationally including commissioned AR sculpture for the Smithsonian and other museums. Her prolific exhibition history with computer art goes back to 1980s, and she was the featured artist for launch of the first NYC commercial Internet Art gallery in 1996 sponsored by Prodigy Inc. Hailed as “trailblazer in digital art”, the “Digital Hijacker” and ” the definition of digital art as fine arts." by press, her influential #arthacks made Forbes’ Best of AR list in 2019, she was Adobe’s Artist-in-Resident, and was the female artist featured in BBC documentary When Art Goes Digital about NFT and Crypto Art. Her Crypto & NFT Art has sold into top collections on Superrare, is held in institutional, private, and DAO collections, and she continues to create major public art commissions, globally. Recent exhibitions include a solo show at the Museum of Contemporary Digital Art and Proof of Art a Brief History of Digital Art & NFTs at the Francisco Carolinum Museum in Linz, Austria (featured in the accompanying art book) & NFT exhibitions in London, Dubai and Art Basel Miami. Marjan was a speaker on Crypto Art at NFT NYC, and is completing Public Art commissions in Vancouver, Oslo, Orlando and Hillsborough Castle Park in the UK. She is a political refugee and immigrant from Iran, and lives and works in Brooklyn, where she is also a Tenured, Full Professor of Digital Art and Animation at LIU/Brooklyn.