About
Jack Kaido's digitally-native art explores abstraction through the modern age.
Cited by Christie’s as one of the artists at the forefront of digital art today who are influencing the future of the medium, Kaido’s art is positioned within the emerging genre of fine art digital abstraction and is released through blockchain technology; cryptoart collected via cryptocurrency.
For Kaido, the internet is canvas, tool and subject matter. The digital language the artist lives and interacts with - web browsers and tabs, computer UI, apps, social media, pixellation, glitch and text - are weaved with collage-like abstractions rooted in the influence of art past and present. He draws upon a wide range of influences, from the prehistoric cave painters to the Japanese woodblock artists, the Impressionists, Cubists, the European and American Abstract Expressionist through to contemporary art and crypto-art.
Kaido's paintings have been sold at Christie's and Sothebys and exhibited internationally, including at Christies' Rockefeller Centre in New York, at Saatchi Gallery in London as part of the British Art Fair's landmark Pivotal: Digitalism exhibition, in Miami during Art Basel Miami and alongside the art of Jackson Pollock in the Hamptons. In 2024, one of Kaido's paintings was sent into outer space and aboard the International Space Station (ISS) on Axiom Space’s AX-3 mission, launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida on SpaceX’s Dragon 9 spacecraft.
Collectors include Airbnb co-founder Joe Gebbia and many of the world's most prominent collectors of digital art, among them Vincent Van Dough, Artifaction, Bharat Krymo and Sunday Funday. Kaido is represented by the distinguished contemporary digital art gallery Art of This Millennium (AOTM).
Kaido will release his debut series of limited edition prints through Avant Arte in late 2024.
Exhibited & Auctions
— Saatchi Gallery, London. Pivotal Digitalism, part of the British Art Fair.
— Subjective NYC Art Festival, New York. Highlights from the 0xMQQ Collection.
— Sothebys, New York. Grails: Property from an Iconic Digital Art Collection Part V.
— Multiple Venues, London. Digital Art Week London.
— Axiom Space AX-3 Mission, International Space Station. Space Grails Project.
— Sagamore Hotel, Miami. Bridging the Gap: A Maker's Place and Transient Labs Art Basel exhibition.
— Seaport, New York. A Digital Transcendence: SuperRare exhibition.
— 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
— AOTM.
— Sothebys.
— Avante Arte.
— Interview. AOTM.
— Interview. Tapir One (via AI voice).
— Interview. Makers Place & Transient Labs.
— Interview. Outland Magazine.
— Essay. On Abstract Art.
Socials
— Instagram.