About
Jack Kaido's digitally-native art explores abstraction through the modern age. Expressionism, minimalism and colour theory are weaved with the digital visual language the artist lives and interacts with, such as internet web pages and interfaces, search bars, apps, text, glitch, errors, gradients, composites, digital collage and pixelation.
Cited by Christies as one of the artists at the forefront of digital art today that are influencing the future of the medium, Kaido's art is positioned within the emerging genre of fine art digital abstract painting and is minted on blockchain technology; cryptoart collected via cryptocurrency. The artist draws upon a wide range of influences, from the prehistoric cave painters to the Japanese woodblock artists, Impressionists, Cubists, the European and American Abstract Expressionists right through to contemporary cryptoart.
His paintings have been exhibited and sold at Christies (New York) and Art Basel (Miami), sent into outer space, displayed alongside the art of Jackson Pollock, displayed in Times Square (New York, printed via robotic collaborations and exhibited in digital and physical art galleries.
In April 2023, Christie’s selected Kaido to feature in an exhibition and auction in New York. In January 2024, one of his paintings was part of Axiom Space’s AX-3 mission to the International Space Station (ISS), launched from Cape Canaveral (Florida) on SpaceX’s Dragon 9 spacecraft.
Collectors of his art include AirBnb founder Joe Gebbia and world-leading cryptoart collectors Artifaction and Bharat Krymo. He has worked with the major cryptoart platforms SuperRare, Nifty Gateway, Makers Place, Known Origin, Transient Labs, Noble Gallery and Exchange Art.
Exhibited
— Axiom Space AX-3 Mission, International Space Station. Space Grails Project.
— Art Basel, Miami. Bridging the Gap: A Maker's Place and Transient Labs exhibition.
— Seaport, New York. A Digital Transcendence: Superrare exhibiton.
— Christies, New York. The Next Wave: The New York Edit.
— Montreal, Canada. Superrare and 0x Society Digital Abstraction exhibition.
— Times Square, New York. Art Innovation Gallery exhibition.
— Exchange Art Gallery, Long Island, New York. Exchange Art Gallery Abstract exhibition.
— NFT Europe, Valencia, Spain. Futr's exhibition at NFT Europe.
— Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, UK. Known Origin exhibition.
Links
Christies — Traces
Superrare — Traces
Known Origin — Errors
Nifty Gateway — Pathways
Article — Forbes
Interview — Makers Place & Transient Labs
Interview — Dalos
Interview — Outland Magazine
Essay — On Abstract Art
Socials