Jæn | Artist at Mondoir

Nationality: French

Discipline: digital-art

Based in: Bordeaux, France

Biography

Jæn's work spans decades, exploring art under all its possibilities (from live music to interactive code-based pieces, from street art to academic research). His 1st solo exhibition in an art gallery was in 2011. He has since exhibited worldwide—and quite literally beyond, from Urban Spree in Berlin to Shibuya in Tokyo, from Mount Kilimanjaro to Beijing, from Saatchi in London to museums in Europe, from Times Square to the International Space Station (in actual space). His art has been collected by all the major collectors in the digital art space, and his work was featured several times in documentaries on TV, Behance's curated galleries and in a number of published books, including "Best Illustrators Worldwide 2018", Nwscty's "Decentralization, Please Save Culture" and Stickerbomb series. He also occasionally works as an art director and curator, and speaks at conferences globally, from the Institut Bernard Magrez in Bordeaux to NFC in Lisbon.

Artist Statement

Jæn's obsession is to create a synergy between the concept or the story, and the form or aesthetics. Both should be facets of the same element. His work is evolving a from his signature surreal and psychedelic line and colour-focused aesthetics from his pop-surreal and street art years, to a more aggressively conceptual and digital approach.

Exhibitions

January 2026 - Group Show Artverse Gallery (Paris) December 2025 - Group Show Sagamore Hotel (Art Basel, Miami) - Immersive Group Show at InSpace for the festival "Un Sueño Digital" (Mexico City) August 2025 - Group Show Cryptoart v10.0 by ArtBees (Craiova, Romania) July-September 2025 - Group Show The Digital Renaissance by Wait And Hope Foundation, Campos Eliseos and Linda Global (Madrid) August 2025 - Group Show RGB MTL (Montréal) - Group Show Sacri Sguardi at the Archaeological Park by Dimensions DAO (Trinitapoli, Italy) June 2025 - Curating & exhibting a group Show including an immersive show (NFC Lisbon) April 2025 - Group Show Primavera Digitale (Florence) June 2024 - Group Show Oshi Gallery (Melbourne) - Group Show Casa NUA (Sao Paulo) May 2024 - Immersive art show & mockumentary Non-Fungible Conference (Lisbon) - AR Group Show Non-Fungible Conference (Lisbon) - Exhibition Curator Non-Fungible Conference (Lisbon) - AR group show for Pictoplasma Festival (Berlin) - Group show at FarCon (Venice Beach, California) April 2024 - Group show at Oculus Center (World Trade Center, NYC) - Group show at ArtsDAO (Dubai) February 2024 - Group show at Iham gallery (Paris) November 2023 - Group show on the giant screens of Times Square (New York) October 2023 - Group show for PepeFest (Avant Galerie Vossen, Paris) - Group show All Star Collectors (Saatchi Gallery, London) - Group show ending Artcrush's World Tour (Ghent, Belgium) September 2023 - Solo Conference on my art, NFTs and digital art (Institut Culturel Bernard Magrez, Bordeaux) - Group show CryptoPunks immersive show at Beeple's Studios (Charleston, South Carolina) July 2023 - Digital Art Group Show with Satyrus in front of the Modern Art Gallery (Villa Borghese, Roma) June 2023 - Immersive audiovisual Group Show + co-curation with Cult of CryptoArt at NFC (Lisbon) - Group show HOMAGE (Brancusi) at the Museum of Art of Craiova (Romania) April 2023 - Group Show in public spaces all around the world with Artcrush (Tokyo, Lagos, Melbourne, Time Square, Amsterdam, London, San Francisco, Paris, Hong Kong, etc.) February 2023 - Group Show + co-curator with Cult of CryptoArt (Paris) January 2023 - Group Show with Neal Digital Gallery (Beijing) November 2022 - Hacked group show with Felix Felix Felix mobile gallery squatting Art Basel Paris +, HNFT, the Tate Modern, Non-NFT (Paris, London, Barcelona, Mexico) - Public Group Show with Artcrush Project (London) - Curated Selection Fake Rares / Rare Pepe legacy (Blockchain) - Group show Andrey Sheptytsky National Museum of Art (Lviv, Ukraine) - Group show on screen-boats for Art Basel (Miami) October 2022 - Group show at NFT Factory's opening with Fondation Pernod Ricard (Paris) September 2022 - Group show billboard screens around the Armory Show (Time Square, New York) July 2022 - Conference speaker "Environment and NFTs" (Paris) May 2022 - Conference speaker & group show at Urban Art Fair "Street Art & the Metaverse" (Paris) - Conference speaker & solo show at an introductory talk on NFTs (Bordeaux, France) - Group show at NFTLiverpool (Liverpool, UK) April 2022 - Group show in a collective piece inspired by Guernica, "Mariupol", for charity (Lisbon) - Group show & conference speaker at the Non-Fungible Conference (Lisbon) - Group show at Point Ephémère (Paris) - Group show Punkism in the gallery Iham (Paris) - Group show at the Japanese virtual cryptoart fair NFT Festa (Metaverse) - Group show & festival augmented reality art and concerts (Amsterdam) - Group show at Nemesis (Metaverse) March 2022 - Auction at Fauve for France's first ever IRL NFT auction (Paris) February - March 2022 - Worldwide + International Space Station art exhibition as art director & artist with Dreame January 2022 - Group cryptoart show with NFT Paris November 2021 - Crypto art group show Dreamverse by Metapurse in Manhattan (New York) - Crypto art fair by NFT Magazine in Time Square (New York) - Group show with The Big Dream in Time Square (New York) July 2021 - Group crypto art show at the annual Ethereum conference EthCC (Paris) June 2021 - Solo virtual crypto art show with M0NA (Museum of NFT Art) (Cryptoxels) May 2021 - Solo virtual NFT show with Tara Digital Collective (Artsy and Decentraland) March 2021 - Virtual NFT group shows curated by Artificial Intelligence bot eNeFTee (Metaverse) September 2020 - Group street art exhibition at Cap Sciences, Bordeaux December 2019 - Solo exhibition at the shop of the Museum of Contemporary Art CAPC, Bordeaux July/September 2018 - Solo exhibition of augmented reality, paintings & illustrations, Oasis (Bordeaux) May 2018 - Animated GIF exhibited in Pictoplasma Festival's opening (Berlin, Germany) April 2018 - Polaroid and illustration installation for Expolaroid in Le Volcan (Bordeaux, France) November 2017 - Jury for drawing contest #TaFeuille, Les Vibrations Urbaines de Pessac (Pessac, France) May 2017 - Group show "PopTales" in Berlin, as part of the Pictoplasma Festival October 2017 - Solo exhibition with Les Vibrations Urbaines de Pessac (Talence/Bordeaux, France) December 2016 - Live urban art performance & exhibition for Cultura's flagship store re-opening (Bordeaux) October 2016 - 3rd Prize at national group exhibition & urban art contest Les Vibrations Urbaines (Pessac, France) September 2016 - Charity illustration for an association of Israeli and Palestinian lawyers working for local peace, exhibited in the headquarters of the International Bar Association (Washington D.C.) and CEELI Institute (Prague) May 2016 - Sculpture/installation for the Pictoplasma group exhibition in Urban Spree (Berlin) March 2016 - Group show at the Institut Culturel Bernard Magrez's Grand Prix, Hôtel Labottière (Bordeaux) October 2015 - National group show and contest of urban art, Les Vibrations Urbaines de Pessac June 2015 - Jury Special Prize in a 24 hours analog photo marathon contest (Labo Révélateur d'Images, Bordeaux), team work with the Midnighters involving digital art in the process. January - March 2015 - Solo exhibition at Vinyl, Bordeaux, France (illustrations & paintings) December 2014 - Live painting performance at an event organized by Happe:n, Bordeaux (France) June 2014 - 4 photos awarded in a 24h photo marathon contest (Labo Révélateur d'Images, Bordeaux), team work April 2014 - Collective polaroid exhibition at La Halle des Chartrons, Bordeaux, France (Expolaroid) April 2013 - Collective polaroid exhibition at CCAS, Bordeaux, France (Expolaroid) September 2012 - Collective urbex photography exhibition at La Halle des Douves, Bordeaux, France September 2011 - Solo photo/photomontage exhibition, Galerie Oujopo (Lyon, France) (surreal photomontages & photos of Japan)

Awards

August 2025 - Podcast Interview on the Collector's Call Podcast (Spotify and Youtube) July-September 2025 - Online Art Residency + Group Show The Digital Renaissance by Wait And Hope Foundation, Campos Eliseos and Linda Global (Madrid) January 2024 - Art featured in a documentary on NFTs (Arte) November 2023 - featured in New Society's Web 3 Creator Edition book - featured in Seattle NFT Museum's Artist Calendar 2024 September 2023 - Conference speaker on my career & digital art / NFTs (Institut Culturel Bernard Magrez, Bordeaux) April 2023 - Interview by LIT November 2022 - Conference speaker at Château Pape Clément NFT (Pessac) - Conference speaker at NFT London (London) July 2022 - Conference speaker at NFT Impact (Paris) June 2022 - Featured in the documentary "The Burnt Auction" by Patrice Masini (France) May 2022 - Conference speaker at Urban Art Fair "Street Art & the Metaverse" (Paris) - Conference speaker at an introductory talk on NFTs (Bordeaux, France) 2021-2022 - interviews by NFT Morning (John Karp & Rémy Peretz) April 2022 - Conference speaker at the Non-Fungible Conference (Lisbon) March 2021 - Interviewed by Creator Collection on SuperRare (SuperRare's editorial blog and front page) February 2021 - Interview + AMA by Les Collectionneurs November 2019 - Art residency/workshop leader at Tumo Center, illustration / character design / synaesthetic workshops (Yerevan, Armenia) October 2019 - Interview, Feather webzine (France) March 2019 - Featured in Behance (Adobe)'s Illustration curated online gallery December 2018 - Video report on my augmented reality and 3D printed street art, on French TV April 2018 - Featured in "Best 200 Illustrators Worldwide 2018" published by Lürzer's Archive (Vienna, Austria) November 2017 - Illustration selected and printed by A2letter (Switzerland) May 2016 - Sticker designs featured in Stickerbomb 3 (Laurence King Publishing - London/ The SRK - Bangkok) December 2015 - Stickers published in Stickermag #9 (Germany) October 2014 - Interview by The SRK/Stickerbomb August 2014 - Sticker design featured in the SRK's Stickerbomb Skull sticker book (Laurence King Publishing, London) - Featured artist on the Inkygoodness blog April 2014 - Character design project featured in Character Design Served (Behance/Adobe) October 2013 - Sticker design published in the SRK's Stickerbomb XL sticker book (Laurence King Publishing, London) September 2009 - Photos of Japan featured in Photography Served (Behance/Adobe)

Education

2 Master's Degrees: Applied English & Japanese, and Japanese Language & Culture (thesis on contemporary Japanese art) Masterclass: Pictoplasma Berlin (Art & Character Design)

Jæn | Artist at Mondoir

Biography

Artist Statement

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Awards

Education

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