Bård Ionson

Curriculum Vitae

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Bård Ionson — Spiritual - Physical - Digital

GAN AI Art, CryptoArt, Digital & Installation Art

Artist Statement

Creating art since 2012. Bård Ionson is an artist who is exposing the distortions between realities. By combining technique and forces of the world he captures the temporary spaces between the physical, electronic, digital and spiritual worlds. These strange visions come from an uncommon combination of tools and techniques such as artificial intelligence, GANs, VCRs, CRTs, oscilloscopes, lasers, scanners, photography, smart contracts, blockchains and sound.

Permanent Collections

  • Battledore, Bodleian Library, Oxford
  • Representation of the Entity v4, Museum of CryptoArt, New York
  • Neural Dream Map, Museum of Crypto Art, Paris
  • Coindrop Still Life, Museum of Crypto Art, Paris
  • The Color Of Crypto, Museum of Crypto Art, Paris

Solo Exhibitions

2019

ARTificial

Machine Learning Conference, Chantilly, Va.

2019

Working Together

ElectroRent product launch, London

2019

ARTificial

Bull Run Library, Manassas, Va.

Selected Exhibitions

2025

Spam series, From Spam To Slop

L’avant Galerie Vossen, Paris

2025

Bones In The Sky

Art Blocks Weekend, Marfa Texas

2025

Painting With Fire

Sovrn Pop up gallery Marfa Texas

2025

Vanishing Of The Genuine: Bone Flag

Digital Art Prize Arab Bank, Lisbon

2025

Extinction, Cult Of Crypto Art

NFC Summit, Lisbon

2025

Vapors Of Culture

Oculus Digital Visions, NYC

2025

California & Vanishing Of The Genuine works

ArtCrush Gallery, worldwide

2024

Life Of Fire

Imagine Today, MUD Gallery, Shanghai

2024

Naked Flames, Path To The Present

Expanded Art Gallery, Berlin, Germany

2024

Vineyard Mountain, Reimagine Tomorrow

Expanded Art, Essen, Germany

2024

Battledore, Alphabets Alive

Weston Library, University of Oxford, England

2024

We Love The Art Optimism award

We Love The Art

2023

Hypercubus, Continuum

Accelerate Art, Barcelona, Spain

2023

We're All Gonna..

For the Culture, ArtPoint, Paris

2023

Future is Where East & West Touch

NFT Art Prize, Arab Bank, Lisbon, Portugal

2023

Tomato McMeme, McDo Meme

NFT Factory, Paris

2023

La Trahison de l’IA (The Treachery of Ai), 100% AI

*it doesn’t exist, NFT Factory, Paris

2023

Color of Crypto & Freaky Faces

MoCA Collection, IHAM Gallery, Paris

2023

The Dance, Ça sent le Crypto-Sapin

NFT Factory, Paris

2023

Multiple works

Historic NFT Fest, Barcelona, Spain

2023

Slice of the Pie

Collab Sebastian Schmieg & Silvio Lorusso DYOR Kunsthalle, Zurich

2022

Soul Scroll Installation & California Series

CADAF Crypto & Digital Art Fair, New York

2022

Four 3D works

TechCrunch Disrupt, San Francisco

2022

Crypto Art-Begins book launch

multiple pieces, New York

2022

Abstraction of the Mind 8

NFT Show Europe, Valencia, Spain

2022

Squeeze, collaboration with Oleksiy Sai

Vienna Contemporary Art Fair, Vienna

2022

Abstraction of Mind 4

Riyadh Next World Forum, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

2022

The Prophesy street projection

Artcrush, Brussels

2022

The HODL Frame

Icons Of Crypto Art, Dubai, UAE

2021

Knights of the Apocalypse

CryptoArt Revolution, Paris

2021

Mysterious Value

Mint Gold Dust, New York

2021

Representation of the Entity

U’R,L Group Exhibition, IRL Art Gallery, Denver

2021

Presidential Portrait 2017-2021

Outside Forces, Art Enables, Washington

2021

Life Is Green & Alien Life Of Venus

Art for Space, MOCDA, Virtual

2021

Eternal Flame, collaboration with Braulio Crespo

Virgin Islands Jam Fest, St. John, USVI

2020

Three Little Gods

Digital Art Month, CADAF, New York

2020

λίμνη Στύγα

Museum Of Contemporary Digital Art, Virtual

2020

Close Our Eyes

Outside Forces, Art Enables, Washington

2020

Nine works of art

CADAF Online Art Fair, Virtual

2020

Welcome To Earth & The AI Spawns

Virtual Rare Art Fair, Virtual

2020

Fight Crown 19

CoinFestUK, Decentraland, Virtual

2020

Decentralized Culture Lost

D&F Tower projection, Denver

2020

Ethangelist

EthDenver, Denver

2020

Space Cross & Structural Jesus

Virgen del Crypto Exhibit, Denver

2020

Ethangelist

Miami Blockchain Week, Miami

2019

Two video, Five digital AI works

CADAF, Miami

2019

Communing With Internet Dweller

DappCon Berlin Institute of Tech, Berlin

2019

Nudes at the Beach

International Digital Art Fest, iDAF, Manchester, England

2019

The HODL Frame & Air-Coin-Artdrop

Rare Art Festival, New York

2019

Bufficorn

EthDenver, Denver

2019

Big Net Of Dreams

Fight Fear, Tolmezzo, Italy

Selected Publications, Articles, Interviews

2025

History Of Bitcoin, Slashdot Effect, Smashtoshi

2022

Crypto Art- Begins, book by Andrea Concas & Eleonora Brizi, Rizzoli, October 18

2022

Crypto Art Begins: The Marvelous Stories of 50 Crypto Artists, Panelist, CADAF New York, November 12

2022

D'artiste en difficulté à créateur d'art numérique à succès, Robert Spotlight Livestream, October 14

2022

Bard Ionson: la tecnologia NFT ci sta cambiando, online article by Mariam Ndiaye, Artuu.it, September 1

2022

Bard Ionson: NFT Technology is Changing Us, online article, ArtsRights, September 5

2022

Episode 59 Bård Ionson, ArtBoxDMV talk radio show, by Jason at WERA, April 7

2022

Bård Ionson Discusses Crypto Culture, Custom Smart Contracts & How NFTs Empower Artists To Thrive, YouTube interview by NewForum, May 18

2021

NFT Crypto Artists Make More Money With Royalties, Toilets Make Happy Green Bug & More, Video interview by Ann Marie Alanes, March 6

2021

Episode 5: GENESIS Artist - Bard Ionson, Mint Gold Dust podcast, Eleonora Brizi, August 4

2020

Distortion Genius: Bård Ionson, a Singular Artist for a New Age, online article by William M. Peaster, November 6

2020

Looking, liking and locating: aesthetic experiences shape spatial representations, academic paper by Mariana Babo Rebelo, et al, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College, London, May 29

2020

Episode 34 Bard Ionson, ArtBoxDMV talk radio show, by Jason at WERA, September 24

Platforms

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Proudly in the Collections of

Benoit CoutyAnne SpalterTokenAngelsBatSoupYumBryan BrinkmanEZinCryptoLa Virgen del CryptoElsie EdicurialColdieColborn BellVK_CryptoMomus CollectionThe Art WhaleJonathan PerkinssebdclRosesHEX0x6C – Massimo FranceschetFanny LakoubayEleonora BriziEuroCollectorGisel FlorezLuo HanHacktaoBoyPreviousDoorShortcut – Jörn BielewskiYoungStaxBrett ShearStanford CSThoreau Centre for the Blockchain ArtsBrandi KyleKinchasaStefan StigneiBrandon SchwartzVasilisJudithESSSMattia CuttiniMatt KaneChris NunesMr. MonkJason BaileyPindar Van ArmanJake JohnsVincentVanDoughBilly WhistlerZaphodok

Contact

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