Sarah Zucker, born 1985, is an American visual artist and writer based in Hollywood, Los Angeles. She specializes in mixing contemporary digital techniques with older analog approaches as well as the use of VHS. Zucker is considered a pioneer of crypto art, releasing digital editions of her

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since 2019.

Life and career

In the early 2010s, Zucker ran a web design firm, but soon shifted her art practice to focus on screen-based art. In 2014, Zucker established the design and animation studio

YoMeryl YoMeryl (founded in 2014) is the name of a pop art duo made up of Bronwyn Lundberg and Sarah Zucker. The name also refers to their gallery and design studio. Lundberg and Zucker are also longtime girlfriends. YoMeryl's subject matter is varied. M ...

together with the artist

Bronwyn Lundberg Bronwyn Lundberg is an American digital artist and painter specializing in graphic art. She is notable for her painting of the ''Lesbian Last Supper'' of Sandra Bernhard, Ellen DeGeneres, Melissa Etheridge, k.d. lang, Jane Lynch, Rachel Maddow, ...

. Together, they were the first artists to present .gif images as art at the

Brooklyn Museum The Brooklyn Museum is an art museum located in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. At , the museum is New York City's second largest and contains an art collection with around 1.5 million objects. Located near the Prospect Heights, Crown ...

. In June 2021, her work was sold at

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as part of “''Natively Digital'',” the auction house’s first curated NFT Sale. That same month, her work was sold at

Bonhams Bonhams is a privately owned international auction house and one of the world's oldest and largest auctioneers of fine art and antiques. It was formed by the merger in November 2001 of Bonhams & Brooks and Phillips Son & Neale. This brought tog ...

as part of “CryptOGs: The Pioneers of NFT Art,” achieving a record price for her work at auction.

Selected Art Shows

* "Natively Digital" at

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, 2021 * "Venus of Metaverse: A Celebration of Women Creators in Crypto Art" at Tara Digital Collective, 2021 * "CryptOGs": The Pioneers of NFT Art" at

, 2021 * "Right Click + Save" at Le Freeport in Singapore, 2021 * "DART2121" at Museo della Permanente in Milan, 2021 * "The Gateway" presented by NFTNow x

Christie’s Christie's is a British auction house founded in 1766 by James Christie. Its main premises are on King Street, St James's in London, at Rockefeller Center in New York City and at Alexandra House in Hong Kong. It is owned by Groupe Arté ...

Art Basel Miami Art Basel is a for-profit, privately owned and managed, international art fair staged annually in Basel, Switzerland; Miami Beach; Hong Kong and from 2022, Paris. Art Basel works in collaboration with the host city's local institutions to he ...

, 2021 * "Block Party" at

Dubai, 2022

Trivia

Zucker is a

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champion.

References

External links

Official website
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