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wait what 250 000 i guess that makes me an artist joking but here are the top 10 nft artists of 2022
let's get into it in 2021 we saw nfts explode in popularity and not another day goes by where
we don't hear about yet another trending nft artist earning record sums for their artworks
and could one of them become the next digital davinci we've been scouring the metaverse for
the best nft artworks and artists and on today's brand new coin market cap episode we're gonna be
sharing the top nft artists to watch for in 2022. what's going on guys my name is trevor max main
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going to miss out on our next videos and let's learn together we'll always remember 2021 as
the year nfts broke into the mainstream and a new creator economy was born online communities sprang
up across the world supporting previously unknown artists who have now found fame and riches in this
new era of digital art nft was even named word of the year by colin's dictionary but the question
we all want answered is will nfts maintain their popularity and if they will which artist should
we even be looking at there's tons of talent across the nft space so we can't say for sure
but we've put together a list of 10 of the best and most promising nft artists out there today
so let's get into it so the first one on our list today is pack chief among the many mysterious and
enigmatic characters operating in the nft space is pack pack who also goes by Murat Pak is a pioneer
in the digital art in nft space known for adopting a clean geometric style as seen in the black and
white circular image they use in a place of a personal photo pack reportedly keeps their
identity hidden to drive attention towards their art and away from their personal life many of us
haven't heard much about pack right up until late last year when soda bay's auction house announced
an upcoming auction for pax work while Beeple was hogging the limelight after his multi-million
dollar auction back in march of last year pac was hard at work developing their new nft project
called merge the merge collection used a novel nft mechanism where investors bought up 266 445 units
of mass in each unit of their own nft once the merge kicked off your mass would start combining
in your wallet eventually forming a new larger nft from your collection and the more mass you bought
the larger your merged mass nft would appear to be pak had been hinting at a mysterious project
all the way back since july of 2020 and investors were not disappointed more than 28 000 art fans
collectors and investors took part in the merge the auction raised just shy of 92 million dollars
far surpassing people's record although whether the merge counts as a single artwork is debatable
although it's not clear what pax working on right now they are definitely a digital artist to watch
if you've heard about nfts you've no doubt heard about people Mike Winkelmann aka beeple
works out of south carolina usa and was by far the most talked about digital artists in 2021
and for good reason by the end of march last year people had already sold 845 artworks for
more than 113 million dollars much of which came from a sale of a single artwork called
every days the first five thousand days every day sold for christie's auction house on march 11th
for an eye-watering 69 million three hundred and forty six thousand two hundred and fifty dollars
despite the sale making him one of the wealthiest living artists today people hasn't slowed down if
anything he's actually working harder in november people again collaborated with christie's to
auction off a new artwork called human one which features a lone astronaut striding through various
barren and dystopian settings and eventually sold for 29 million dollars unlike every days
human one also included a sculpture to permanently display the nft called a kinetic video sculpture
people will keep remote access to and creative control over the artwork forever allowing it
to evolve over time and that brings us to the next one on our list which is x copy x copy is
a well-established nft artist with a really unique and interesting style his style varies massively
from piece to piece but much of his existing works contains a mixture of cartoonish illustrations and
vibrant colors overall there's a strong punkish feel to his work with lots and lots of neon
xcopy's work depicts a wide variety of subjects but you'll usually find a few neon skeletons
and hallucinating frogs dotted around his work the artist bio explains that his art explores death
dystopia and apathy through distorted visual loops like pak x-copy uses a pseudonym but has revealed
that he's based in london uk there's also a strong meta element to xcopy's work as seen in the right
click and save as guy which highlights the wide misunderstandings around crypto art and nfts
xcopy's success in the nft arena over the past two years parallels the success enjoyed by the global
nft movement one of his works titled a coin for the ferryman sold for a hundred and thirty nine
dollars back in 2018. but towards the end of last year the same nft sold for more than six million
dollars worth of eath making xcopy one of the most successful nft artists to date makai daobak better
known as mad dog jones is a canadian artist and photographer mad dog's artworks combines sci-fi
elements with dystopian themes and often features a strong cyberpunk element maddox prefers to work
from original materials usually rendering his artworks from photographs or drawings
the canadian artist made his name in the digital art world by sharing his content across social
media but only dived into nfts in 2020. his first nft collection included 100 r works each of which
sold for a modest one dollar a piece mad dog's groundbreaking and best known work is replicator
which sold for an impressive 4.1 million dollars and offered the first multi-generational nft
experience as implied by its name the nft artwork can generate new and unique nfts every 28 days but
only up to seven generations at which point none of the nfts will produce any more nfts
whoever owns replicator can either hot all their newly generated nfts or sell them for a profit
mad dog is a well-known and active member of the nft community and even tweeted that 2021
was the year beeple became a household name and who knows maybe in 2022 mad dog jones will be a
household name there are vanishingly few 13 year old self-made millionaires but nyla hayes counts
herself among them given her youth there isn't much that we can say about haye's life so far
other than that she began drawing at 4 years old and started her iconic long neckies collection
age nine as the name suggests hayes nft collection features hundreds of long-necked women
a mixture of celebrities family members and originals she said my long neckies stand for
diversity and women from all around the world it's meant to make people comfortable in their
own skin and it's meant to make young girls feel powerful about being themselves when asked why the
long neck by business insider hayes revealed the quirk comes from a love of a particular dinosaur
the brontosaurus hayes has already earned a whopping 5.7 million dollars in eath thanks to
her moon-bound digital art career and was recently named as time magazine's first artist in residence
in her new role hayes will be responsible for cultivating a collection of a thousand unique
pieces based on magazines women of the year and will include artworks depicting michelle obama
beyonce and others Fewocious whose real name is victor langlos is another young artist who enjoyed
their breakout year in 2021. the seattle-based artist sold his first painting at just 17 years
of age and through a series of successful nft drops he accumulated an enormous 17 million
dollars which allowed him to move away from his hometown of las vegas lane lucy's best known
artworks explore personal vulnerable themes in the artist's life and combine a surrealist style and
vivid color scheme langlois bio explains that his art represents snapshots of his memory and
a mirror into his heart one of his latest pieces titled hello i'm victor Fewocious and this is my
life went on sale through christie's auction house in june of last year the collection included five
lots each of which detailed a year of his journey through adolescence and according to esquire the
christie's website crashed for the first time ever and the auction was rescheduled for two days later
nfts are really breaking the system but once the auction was able to take place the collection
sold for just over 2.1 million dollars since then langlois has enjoyed continuing success
selling another work titled nice to meet you i'm mr misunderstood for 2.8 million dollars through
soda bay's auction house the soda based lot also included a physical copy of the artwork a custom
suitcase as well as some hand-painted clothing from langlois's up-and-coming clothing line
and the next one is isaac wright known in the nft space as drift and he first gained his notoriety
for climbing skyscrapers bridges and other high up places to take amazing photographs after serving
in the us army for six years wright struggled with ptsd but found scaling massive man-made structures
to be the only outlet which helped alleviate his suffering wright's iconic collection is titled
where my vans go and includes 117 nfts each of which is a photo taken from somewhere up high
in the united states the sole similarity shared among wright's photos is his fans hence the title
of his collection but unfortunately wright got into some legal trouble last year after police
in his hometown put out a nationwide warrant for his arrest for his spider-man-like escapades
wright's arrest was unusual urban explorers are typically only given a slap on the wrist for
climbing skyscrapers and bridges during the height of wright's legal troubles and after spending a
hundred days in jail his work was featured on the front page of the new york times since then wright
has become a leader within the nft community and has only positive words to say about the
new digital art movement describing it as a ladder of one person pulling another up and so far wright
has reportedly made around six million dollars from his nft collections and if you want to check
out some truly incredible and unique photos check out drift's collection on openc and that brings us
to the next artist which is shae the surrealist shaylin wallace aka shay the surrealist is a 23
year old digital artist from delaware usa the up-and-coming digital artist has been making
digital art since 2014 and started selling her work as nfts last year shay's artworks are mainly
surrealist as her twitter handle suggests and she specializes in manipulating stock photos
in adobe photoshop turning the ordinary into the extraordinary much of shae's work combines
human portraiture with natural elements like flowers woodlands sunsets and sky to symbolize
human emotions shea's work has been exhibited throughout the world including at the ocean
decade exhibition which was held at the unesco's headquarters in paris outside the nft space shay
worked with a number of famous brands including netflix adobe and recently amc where she designed
custom artwork for the walking dead dan jews whose real name is leopoldo d'angelo is a digital artist
art director and graphic designer based in milan italy dangerous artworks fall under the sci-fi
and futuristic banner and often feature dystopian cityscapes illuminated by neon lights the digital
artist explains that blade runner and ghost in the shell were two of his biggest influences and
that beeple is among his favorite contemporary artists in his career so far dengues has made
nearly 5 million dollars by selling his artworks as nfts and is the 5th best-selling digital artist
on the super rare marketplace dengues has also enjoyed a fair amount of professional success as
well having worked for the likes of adobe maserati and nvidia like a few other artists on our list
dengues is a active member of the nft community and recently revealed that the thing i'm most
proud of is the amount of people i've directly or indirectly onboarded the artist tweeted back
in december that he has big plans for 2022 and we're looking forward to seeing how those plans
worked out and that brings us to the last artist today which is kath simard and she is a explorer
digital artist and landscape photographer based in canada her photographs depict astounding
scenes and locations from some of the remotest yet mesmerizing areas from around the world and kath
doesn't have a huge collection of digital art available to buy his nfts just yet but the few
available artworks are selling for sums between 70 000 and 300 000 on super rare and it's likely
that cath's nft artworks will remain scarce due to the nature of her work chiefly the difficulty
of getting to such remote locations when she's not capturing a rarely seen piece of the world
on film or working with sony or the north face kathleen's expeditions to places like patagonia
iceland and the canadian rockies on her website kath explains that each image is the result of
hundreds of kilometers hiked days exploring the wilderness and hours spent creating behind the
computer despite her short supply of nfts kath remains as a well-known artist in the nft space
and certainly one to watch out for in 2022 what did you think about our list today which
artists did we not mention make sure to comment them down below and if you have any questions
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