NEW YORK, NY.- Marianne Boesky Gallery announced the representation of French-American artist Sarah Meyohas (b. 1991). The gallery will debut her most significant work to date from the Interference series at Art Basel in June 2022. Meyohas will also be featured in the Conversation series at Art Basel, The New Patrons: NFT Collectors and Supporters, on June 16.

Meyohas is a conceptual artist and pioneer in her use of cryptocurrency and blockchain technology as the foundation for her work in performance, documentary video works, photography, and sculpture. In 2015, Meyohas created Bitchcoin, a cryptocurrency backed by her physical artworks. Predating the launch of Ethereum, Bitchcoin is the first tokenization of physical art on a blockchain, effectively a “proto-NFT.” The artist translates these complex systems into her own visual language and pushes the boundaries of a gradually changing art landscape with the advancement of emerging technologies.




“Sarah Meyohas is a fearless female voice at the forefront of discussions in an often male-dominated tech space,” says Marianne Boesky. “She brilliantly captures the complex beauty of technology and the expansive opportunities it presents for the art world. At 31 years old, Meyohas fluidly merges her dynamic craft as a fine artist with her sophisticated and groundbreaking activities in Web3. We are thrilled to be showing Meyohas’s work at Art Basel for the first time and look forward to working with her on exciting upcoming projects.”

For Art Basel, Meyohas has created her largest sculptural work to date using holograms, a technology invented in the mid-20th century. A jewel-like geometric cluster of illuminated etched glass panels, Interference #8 was created by collaging together hologram fragments. Meyohas begins the work by shooting micro photographs of plant material, which are then converted into 35-millimeter film. The interference patterns, or waves of light, emitted by each frame are then captured in glass through an advanced double exposure methodology to produce the holograms and abstract the original image further. From start to finish, Meyohas has created Interference #8 through an exclusively analog process that can only be carried out in the physical world. With this work, the artist proposes an immersive experience for viewers to observe the ways in which the natural yet still intangible phenomenon of the structural building blocks of color can be manipulated to become even more mystifying. Though Meyohas takes great interest in manipulating emerging technologies and digital platforms, her work often originates from an awe of the structural complexity of organic matter and color. Her work mimics the natural order of nature, which she enhances to offer viewers an amplified physical experience that must be seen IRL.

Sarah Meyohas (b. 1991, New York) is a conceptual artist and pioneer in the field of crypto art. Meyohas continues to investigate emerging technologies with familiar emblems of biological life: soaring birds, created using augmented-reality software, flock in unison with the frenetic variations of the stock market; rose petals, aggregately identical but individually unique, comprise the dataset for their AI-created equivalents. Meyohas’s practice provides an intelligible visual language to articulate the systems and complex operations that increasingly govern our world. The artist’s work has been exhibited in New York at Red Bull Arts, 303 Gallery, and the New Museum of Contemporary Art; and internationally at institutions including the Barbican Centre, London; the Jameel Arts Center, Dubai; and the Ming Contemporary Art Museum, Shanghai. Meyohas has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times, The New York Times, Vice, and Artforum, and has appeared on CNBC, PBS, and CBC. Her film Cloud of Petals has been screened at various film festivals around the world, including the Slamdance Film Festival and the Locarno Film Festival. In 2017 she was named to the Forbes 30 under 30 list. Meyohas holds dual degrees in Finance and International Relations from the University of Pennsylvania and in 2015 received her M.F.A. from Yale Universit