Meet PROOF's Grails: Season II Artists
PROOF Collective's Grails: Season II artists revealed today. Here is what we know.
Collectively, the artists in the collection have $125 million in combined NFT sales, including five artists with eight figures in total sales. Three of the pieces in this collection will transform after the reveal. Five of the artists are featured as Curated Artists on Art Blocks. And one artist is dropping their Genesis piece in the Grails: Season II collection.
Grail #1: Belly of the Whale: 01 by Tom Sachs
Tom Sachs is a contemporary artist and sculptor known for his elaborate recreations of modern brands and objects. He created Tom Sachs: Rocket Factory, a trans-dimensional manufacturing plant and NFT collection. His artwork for Grails: Season II was minted 33 times.
Grail #2: Store by Grant Riven Yun
Grant Riven Yun is a digital and generative artist, researcher, and dancer. He has 1/1 NFTs on SuperRare, Manifold, Foundation, and more. His artwork for Grails: Season II was minted 40 times.
Grail #3: Fixer-upper by Process Grey
Process Grey is an artist and co-founder of Truth Labs, the same artist to create the Illuminati Collective, The 187, and Goblintown. Process Grey's artwork on Grails: Season II was minted 24 times.
Grail #4: Get Weird by Coldie
Coldie is an award-winning mixed media artist creating steroscopic 3D art. He has sold more than $5 million worth of NFT art on SuperRare. He is an OG artist in the crypto space. His artwork for Grails: Season II was minted 19 times.
Grail #5: Sparrows do not fear the sun. by Linda Dounia
Linda Dounia is a self-taught artist and curator exploring social construction of power. She worked with Quantum Art in April 2022 to release the first large-scale AI collection by an African woman in the NFT world. Her artwork for Grails: Season II was minted 17 times.
Grail #6: Crude Figures by Kjetil Golid
Kjetil Golid is a Norweigan generative artist and system developer who blends algorithms and data structures. He is most well-known for his Art Blocks collection, Archetype, which currently has a floor price of 24.95 ETH. His artwork for Grails: Season II was minted 123 times.
Grail #7: Quantum Noise by Pindar Van Arman
Pindar Van Arman is an award-winning artist on the SuperRare council. He blends AI and robotics to create his artworks, and he was one of the first artists to drop on BrainDrops. His artwork for Grails: Season II was minted 31 times.
Grail #8: Latent Floral - A by Refik Anadol
Refik Anadol is a Turkish-American new media artist and designer who has worked with Microsoft, Google, Intel, and others. He uses data-driven machine learning algorithms to create environments that relate to smell, taste, and feel. Bill Gates is one of his earliest collectors. His artwork for Grails: Season II was minted 65 times.
Grail #9: My Mother the Sun by CACHEPOOR
CACHEPOOR is well-known in the tattoo community. This is her first artwork created as an NFT. It was created with Procreate and Pixel Studio. Her artwork for Grails: Season II was minted 39 times.
Grail #10: Ambivalence by Luis Ponce.
Luis Ponce is a digital artist with works on SuperRare, Tezos, Foundation, and Ethereum. His Cycles of ( dis ) integration collection has a floor price of 20 ETH via OpenSea currently. His artwork for Grails: Season II was minted 42 times.
Grail #11: made these for your girl by Apha Centauri Kid (ACK)
Alpha Centauri Kid (ACK) is a visual artist and musician and one of the highest-selling SuperRare artists. He calls himself the humble servant of the muse. His artwork for Grails: Season II was minted 39 times.
Grail #12: Dragon Preliminary Study by James Jean
James Jean is a visual artist who works mostly on painting and drawing. He released his NFT collection Fragments in April 2022, which currently has a floor price of 0.34 ETH. His artwork for Grails: Season II was minted 12 times.
Grail #13: Dissociation by Drifter Shoots
Drifter Shoots is one of the most well-known NFT photographers and artists in the space. His Where My Vans Go collection has a floor price of 55 ETH on OpenSea currently. His artwork for Grails: Season II was minted 31 times.
Grail #14: Bookends (Study) by Erick Calderon (Snowfro)
Erick Calderon is an artist and the co-founder of Art Blocks, the number one generative art platform. Calderon, or Snowfro, created Chromie Squiggles, the first generative NFT project on Sotheby's. His artwork for Grails: Season II was minted 50 times.
Grail #15: Breezy Doozy by Harm van den Dorpel
Harm van den Dorpel is a Berlin-based conceptual artist. His work is a 2020 reimaginging of a 2012 work by Harm van den Dorpel. It responds to operating systems for light or dark mode appearances. His artwork for Grails: Season II was minted 46 times.
Grail #16: Ball by Jake Fried
Jake Fried is an artist who specializes in hand-drawn experimental animations. His Maximum Effort collection on OpenSea currently has a floor price of 2.8 ETH. His artwork for Grails: Season II was minted 17 times.
Grail #17: Away from Keyboard by Emily Xie
Emily Xie is a generative artist and software engineer making art with code. Her artwork for Grails: Season II was minted 41 times. One minter of Grail #17 will be sent the physical artwork used to create the NFT.
Grail #18: The Guardian by William Mapan
William Mapan is an artist, coder, and teacher based in France. His artwork comments on computers and code. He is most well-known for his Art Blocks Curated collection, Anticyclone, which currently has a floor price of 6.42 ETH. His artwork for Grails: Season II was minted 80 times.
Grail #19: Eat The Scroll by Nadya Tolokonnikova
Nadya Tolokonnikova is a musician, conceptual artist, and political activist. She is a founding member of the popular punk band Pussy Riot. She won the Hannah Arendt Award for Political Thought in 2014. Her artwork for Grails: Season II was minted 19 times.
Grail #20: Red Skull by Mr Doodle
Mr Doodle is one of the top-selling artists of all win under the age of 40. His artwork for Grails: Season II was minted 29 times.
Grail #21: IN THE AIR by Osinachi
Osinachi, or Prince Jason Osinachi Igwe, is a Nigerian visual and digital artist known for using Microsoft Word as his art medium. His work has been digitally auctioned by Christie's in Europe. His artwork for Grails: Season II was minted 24 times.
Grail #22: GEIST by Alida Sun
Alida Sun is a Berlin and New York-based artist who creates artworks based on extended reality and experimental humanities. Her Glitch Crystal Monsters collection dropped via Art Blocks Curated. Her artwork for Grails: Season II was minted 136 times, the most-minted piece.
Grail #23: Retinal Plugin by Neurocolor
Neurocolor is a painter, digital artist, and Cyberpunk culture enthusiast. They have sold 289 total NFT artworks for nearly $1 million. Their artwork for Grails: Season II was minted 48 times.
Grail #24: Cognition #0 - Returning Home by Justin Aversano
Justin Aversano is a photographer and the co-founder and CEO of Quantum Art, a platform curating digital culture through NFTs. His Twin Flames collection is one of the top-selling NFTs artworks in history. His artwork for Grails: Season II was minted 93 times.
Grail #25: The Fabric of Trees by Zancan
Zancan is a generative artist, oil painter, and programmer. He works at the convergence of figurative and generative arts, "bewitched by density, lush plants, and trees." He is the top-selling artist of all time on Tezos. His artwork for Grails: Season II was minted 75 times. One of those minters will receive the physical 1/1 artwork.
