Artists in Residence

AOTM Artists in Residence Program: AiR IV

AOTM Artists in Residence (AiR) invites a select group of non-roster artists to join the AOTM ecosystem for 3-month terms. This is the second year of the initiative.

The resident artists of AiR IV – the first cohort of 2025 – are: ADHD, cydr, and JULES.

Structured in regular career and curatorial development sessions with the AOTM community, each term culminates in a digital exhibition sale via AOTM featuring new artworks created by the residents. Artworks created by the residents will also be entered into the AOTM Collection in exchange.

AiR allows AOTM to continue on its mission to push digital art forward by taking on a more active role in the cultivation and development of different creative voices, building community, and expanding the definition of a gallery in the digital art sphere, and beyond.

The concept behind AiR relates back to AOTM’s namesake, Peggy Guggenheim’s groundbreaking Art of This Century, a hybrid art gallery, art collection, museum, and meeting place for New York’s avant-garde during the 1940s.

The artists, artworks, and ideas gathered at Art of This Century would have an indelible impact on the modern and contemporary art world and culture at large. 

Through its AiR initiative, AOTM honors this legacy of impactful community building, patronage, and creative exchange.

ADHD

ADHD is a pseudonymous moniker used by US-based multidisciplinary artist Colin Frangicetto (aka Space Case). Working in a vast range of mediums & aesthetics he is best known for his cerebral, poetic, abstract digital paintings and collages that blur the line between digital/analog interfaces. Through recursive, meditative, and often damaged forms he seeks to create images and objects that simultaneously take him on a journey of self-discovery, as well as function as personal mirrors for the viewer; showing them what they wish or perhaps need to see in it. Common themes are neurodivergence/mental illness, transpersonal experiences, and post-internet existence. He has been exhibiting since 2008 and his work lives in many collections worldwide.

cydr

Born in 2002 in Curitiba, Brazil, Cydr began exploring art at a young age through drawing, painting, and sculpting. However, a pivotal moment came during a school class, in 2015, where Cydr discovered the world of Photoshop. This sparked a journey from designing YouTube banners to crafting album covers, eventually evolving into deeply personal work that expresses their emotions and ideas.

Having grown up immersed in video games, Cydr often infuses their art with a digital aesthetic, reflecting a deep appreciation for and nostalgia for their childhood and current life. Now, at 22 years old, Cydr merges playful experimentation with self-expression, drawing on memories and everyday observations to reinterpret the familiar through a lens of distortion. This being said, each piece invites viewers into immersive and reimagined worlds.

JULES

Jules (b. 1989) is a Los Angeles-based artist who merges physical and digital mediums to create dynamic, evolving works. Through mixed media, they breathe new life into physical objects, often using the blockchain as the final brushstroke to bring their art to life. Known for pushing the boundaries of storytelling and technology, Jules weaves personal narratives and cultural movements into innovative, immersive bodies of work.

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