10 Digital Artists: Women’s History Month
As we celebrate Women's History Month, we are happy to recognize and appreciate the remarkable contributions of women in various fields, including the wonderful world of digital art!
We’re celebrating the woman identifying digital artists who are reshaping the landscape with their creativity, innovation, and mastery of technology with brilliant digital art.
Join us in celebrating these artists’ achievements and exploring the diverse and inspiring works from all around the globe that continue to shape the landscape of digital art. From mesmerizing illustrations to stunning animations, these visionary artists are pushing the boundaries of visual storytelling.
Here’s a list of talented women who create fascinating works of digital art and experiment with digital collage, 3D animation, AR art, and more.
Whether you are an artist looking for inspiration, a curator working on an exhibition, or a digital arts fan looking to discover digital artists, this list is for you.
Here’s 10 talented female creators you need to know.
Scroll to learn more about them! Here’s the featured artists:Amara SkywalkerMrs LuvaluvaNatasha ChomkoLindsey PriceInes AlphaPaloma RinconGrey Z.143dressSarah Ridgley Ivona TauLet's be friends on Instagram!
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Umi-Amara Ibrahim, who creates under the alias Amara Skywalker, is a self-taught multidisciplinary artist from Nigeria. She specializes in portrait art and works with mainly graphite pencils and ballpoint pens for her traditional art.
“I use art as a medium of self-expression and exploration and am inspired by the works of Frida Kahlo. The goal of my art is not always to tell stories, but to create for the sake of creating, and to create something aesthetically and visually pleasing. And I believe I do so with every piece,” she notes.
Her art is recognizable for its women’s illustrations with vivid expressions, conveying complex emotions. An aspiring children’s book illustrator, Amara collaborates with other artists on NFT projects such as Shameless, #Topboyz, and Garden Elves series on Opensea.
“Sometimes I think my traditional art is like an opal. Pale and shining. Still and shifting. But always beautiful. And so, in what I thought was rather clever and poetic, both were fused to create beautiful synergy.”
After many years working commercially as a digital animator, Mrs Luva Luva took a course in art therapy during the lockdown. That’s how she started to find her voice once more, and explore physical art such as painting and ceramics. The artist took this back into her digital practice and currently works between the two mediums.
Mrs Luva Luva uses a variety of 3D software, 3D printing, ceramics and painting in her practice, moving between physical and digital worlds and layering up the two.
Mrs Luva Luva’s work explores the themes of existing in states of disembodied and embodied reality — physical entropy and decay versus a state of digital permanence. She sees imperfection as a hallmark of humanity, and her work is a response to the symbiotic growth of our digital selves and a cultural ideology that relentlessly drives us to seek increasingly perfect and more efficient versions of ourselves.
“I love the immediacy and imperfections of working physically and possibilities of the digital.”
Natasha Chomko, also known as Post Wook in the digital arts world, is a visual artist and creative director based in Los Angeles. She mainly creates “places that never existed” via surreal landscape collage art with nostalgic images and psychedelic elements and challenges perception of shapes, color, and texture in her art to create new universes out of pre-existing photos.
The artist started making collages at the age of 12, but went on studying Political Science and working on a political campaign as her full-time job. After feeling creatively starved, she turned back to collage and never looked back. Since then she has worked with recognizable clients such as Adobe, Chase Bank, Sony, and Toyota.
While believing that her self-taught art is therapeutic in the sense that it frees her inner child, she also strongly believes in the decentralized future of digital art in the web3 space and bridging the gap between art and technology.
“I’m really not supposed to be here. Even before I was born, my spirit fought to take a breath and my life experiences should have been cut short many times.
Now I make art about it.
I use art to process emotions, old memories, feelings, and things that have happened in my life. Every element of my work is symbolic. I now see that I’m here because I’m supposed to tell this story. Thanks for paying attention.”
Lindsey Price is an artist and designer who was born in Boston, and is currently living and working in Los Angeles. She creates collage, painting, design, and animation works inspired by retrofuturism, psychedelia, brutalist architecture, and vintage fashion.
The artist’s art envisions possible dimensions for a harmonious, matriarchal future, bridging the digital and physical realms – the result is a visual paradise where one can escape and reimagine oneself.
“I believe envisioning the future is an inherent part of making it a reality. This is what I mean when I say the imaginary is just as real as what we consider “real life.” Whether digitally or physically, I am visually bringing my fantasies into the world, giving them a life of their own.”
Trần Quỳnh Nhi is a graphic designer and the creator of the first digital fashion house in Vietnam, 143Dress. After earning her degree in fashion design at London College for Design and Fashion in Hanoi, she started the fashion brand to use 3D design to unleash her creativity and bring innovation to her environment.
Her work is inspired by her own childhood, innocence, and bright colors. Trần Quỳnh Nhi hopes to convey positive energy and heal people through her virtual collections. In her first collection for DRESSX, 143Dress recreated children’s dreams with unrealistic fantasy worlds — inspired by floating castles on the sea, nostalgia for childhood, and bright summer colors.
The designer hopes to ignite the innocent curiosity of children among adults, and remind that everyone was once a child.
“The opportunities that Metaverse opens are almost endless, I believe in creating a parallel industry that is much more interesting and creative than the current fashion industry. Digital fashion brings democracy, and the creative process of digital fashion is something that everyone can participate in.”
Ines Alpha is digital artist based in Paris. She is best known for her 3D makeup series, with which she started experimenting while working as an art director in advertising with specialty in beauty and luxury. Her goal is to encourage a fun and creative approach to makeup and self expression.
Her art pushes further the boundaries of makeup and beauty using 3D softwares and augmented reality — the artist creates enchanted and fantastic versions of reality without any physical restraints. Her 3D makeup effects defies gravity, features iridescent textures, and grows flowers out of one’s skin.
She has collaborated with brands like ALLURE, Burberry x GQ, Nike, Dior Makeup, and has exhibited art in festivals, conventions, and exhibitions worldwide, such as in Montreal, Lisbon, Berlin, New York, and Paris.
She has recently collaborated with Prada Beauty, and created a creative e-makeup series, for which she reimagined Prada’s prints in digital beauty form. Also recently she has showcased her 3D makeup art at Palais Augmenté 3, the third edition of the first festival dedicated to artistic creation in augmented reality and immersive cultural innovations in France.
While fantasizing what complete aesthetic freedom of one’s appearance would look like, Ines Alpha allows people to experiment with this kind of freedom via AR filters — You can try her augmented reality makeup effects as filters using Snapchat or Instagram!
Paloma Rincon is a visual artist born in Mexico and currently based in Madrid. She is a still-life photographer who has worked with worldwide brands such as Coca-Cola, Google, PlayStation, and Samsung.
Her work stands out for its quirky, colorful, and playful style. She creates absurd and striking images by experimenting with unexpected juxtapositions as well as new tools that our digital age offers.
Her new series NaturAI, for instance, is a collection where she integrates her photography practice with the use of artificial intelligence. She created a lush green environment as a backdrop for her AI-generated birds to place and photograph them in real life.
“Overall, this series is a visually stunning exploration of the relationship between technology and nature. The birds represent human emotions that initially AI can’t replicate. They are integrated in a physical, fresh environment, raising the question about the uniqueness of natural life. The individual pieces on this drop together compose a greater image where all the birds are integrated in a single composition.”
Grey Z. is a self-taught 3D visual artist, UI/UX designer, and art director from Malaysia. Her art is an exploration of self identities, inner battles, and growth as a female artist. Her work is recognizable for its disfigured or surrealist depictions of the human face.
In her words, her art is “inspired by [her] own feelings and perception of [her] surroundings with a touch of surrealist landscapes.” Grey Z.’s art has been featured in group shows such as Women of the World in New York for NFT.NYC, Stratosphere in China, Crypto Art Week Asia, and more.
She co-founded FUOR in collaboration with the artist Alexander Cheah, which is a visual design studio based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The studio offers 3D design, visual identity, art direction, and commercial photography services with a focus on aesthetic creativity.
“for all the rumination and negativity we are holding on to,
it is time to let them go.
feel the things we are supposed to feel,
let the turmoil ripple out,
to gently subside into stillness again.”
Ivona Tau is a generative AI artist from Vilnius, Lithuania. She holds degrees in photography and mathematics and a Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence. As an active researcher, she published multiple scientific papers in the field of Computer Vision and Artificial Neural Networks.
Her work has been featured in solo and group shows worldwide including at Art Basel Miami, Times Square, Bright Moments Berlin, Sotheby’s London, and Frieze LA. She was elected as one of the TOP 10 Women in AI by the Women in Tech Foundation in 2o22.
Ivona works with generative neural networks (GAN) and digital as well as analog film to explore the notion of universal memories. She aims to create universally relatable memories and evoke emotions through custom AI models.
We love her collaboration with Germany-based photographer Michael Schauer, UNDER THE WAVES, which depicts our world getting swept away by the powerful force of nature. The generative cities project suggests to the impending doom of the environmental crisis while reflecting upon the limitations of humans with regards to artificial intelligence and nature.
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Sarah Ridgley is a creative coder based in the USA. Her art has been widely exhibited and she has been invited to speak at panels such as FemGen at Art Basel Miami in 2022. The event had a focus on highlighting women artists amongst the generative art and creative coding community.
Sarah Ridgley “paints with code,” and explores hand-drawn aesthetics in the computer-drawn pieces. While aiming to blur the boundaries between the two, she designs her own algorithmic brushes to present a highly-ordered chaos. She works with Processing (p5js) and JavaScript to build her programs and also creates augmented reality animations of her generative art.
We love her recent generative art project, Ateliers, for its simple elegance in blurring the boundaries between the computer-generated and hand-drawn. The artwork experiments with planes and edges and reflects upon Sol LeWitt’s observation that “the most interesting characteristic of the cube is that it is relatively uninteresting.” Sarah Ridgley transforms the mundane cube into a symbolic expression of creative evolution.
“When I first started learning to code, I read a ton of different books and tried to expose myself to as many techniques as I could. I felt (and still feel) limited by the things I didn’t know, so I wanted to know everything. This is a continuous journey, but it keeps me excited and engaged with my work.”
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