RHEA MYERS — BIO AND STATEMENT (plain text for pasting)
Updated 18 September 2026. Current versions: https://rhea.art/press-kit/

BIO (200 words)

Rhea Myers (b. 1973, Surrey, UK) is an artist, hacker, and writer based in British Columbia, Canada. She has used the blockchain as an artistic medium since 2014, making smart contracts, tokens, and on-chain works that examine ownership, authenticity, identity, and value by following the rules of the systems that encode them.

Myers is represented by Galerie Nagel Draxler and Gazelli Art House. Her work is in the permanent collections of the Buffalo AKG Art Museum, ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, and Arab Bank Switzerland. Her work has been exhibited at Kunsthalle Zürich, HEK Basel, Schinkel Pavillon Berlin, ArtScience Museum Singapore, Chronus Art Center Shanghai, the Buffalo AKG Art Museum, and the Musée d'arts de Nantes. In 2026 she presented To Be Perceived, Against Evil, a two-person commission with Linda Dounia, at the Museum of the Moving Image, New York. She has had solo exhibitions with Galerie Nagel Draxler, Berlin, in 2023 and 2025. Her Secret Artwork (Content) sold at Sotheby's in 2021 for $63,000.

Her collected projects and writings, Proof of Work: Blockchain Provocations 2011–2021, were published by Urbanomic in 2022. She studied Fine Art at Canterbury College of Art and Computing in Design at the Centre for Electronic Arts, Middlesex University.

She didn't invent NFTs, though. Twice.

SHORT BIO (60 words)

Rhea Myers (b. 1973, UK) is an artist, hacker, and writer based in British Columbia. She has worked with blockchains since 2014; her work is in the collections of the Buffalo AKG Art Museum and ZKM Karlsruhe and has sold at Sotheby's. She is the author of Proof of Work: Blockchain Provocations 2011–2021 (Urbanomic, 2022). She didn't invent NFTs, though. Twice.

ARTIST STATEMENT (100 words, third person)

Since 2014 Rhea Myers's primary medium has been the blockchain. Smart contracts make explicit the rules society keeps hidden: who owns what, what counts as authentic, how value is assigned. Myers follows those rules so faithfully that they turn inside out — a contract that nominates itself as art, an artwork its owner will never see, a certificate that guarantees inauthenticity. Her work borrows the look of modernism, conceptual art, and net art because those aesthetics are rule systems too. For Myers, as a trans woman, how rules are enforced has never been an abstract question.

NAME AND PRONOUNS

Rhea Myers (she/her). Please use this name only.