Nino Arteiro
- Identity
- Pseudonym
- Links
- Wallets
- KnownOrigin
- 2 copies across 2 works, July 2020
Nino Arteiro describes himself as a Brazilian, self-taught multidisciplinary cryptoartist working across drawing, painting, digital art, photography, electronic music, poetry, audiovisual work, and performance.1 His stated subjects include Brazil, censorship, power, post-capitalism, distributed governance, financial systems, and emotion.1 In a 2019 interview, he described his visual practice as deliberately simple and sometimes intentionally rough, using GIFs, JPEGs, photography, digital collage, and “virtual graffiti”; he also discussed a conceptual, minimal, memetic form he calls “ethereal art.”2 Artist-programmer Monica Rizzolli separately credited Arteiro with teaching her to create and publish an ERC-721 contract, calling him a Brazilian crypto-art pioneer.3
Collecting record
| Date | Work | Copy | Event | ETH | Transaction |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disintegration | 42/50 | Received | · | 0x0aa7…5b28 | |
| Disintegration | 42/50 | Transferred out | · | 0x9b54…c609 | |
| RESIST | 19/25 | Received | · | 0x75e3…b5ca | |
| RESIST | 19/25 | Transferred out | · | 0xb3ec…6b31 |
References
Interviews and first-person sources
Cited for this account: In a 2019 interview, he described his visual practice as deliberately simple and sometimes intentionally rough, using GIFs, JPEGs, photography, digital collage, and “virtual graffiti”; he also discussed a conceptual, minimal, memetic form he calls “ethereal art.”
Gustavo Bertolucci, “Entrevista com Nino Arteiro—criptoartista brasileiro,” Livecoins, 26 January 2019, livecoins.com.br/entrevista-com-nino-arteiro-criptoartista-brasileiro (accessed 7 October 2026). ↩︎
Cited for this account: In a 2019 interview, he described his visual practice as deliberately simple and sometimes intentionally rough, using GIFs, JPEGs, photography, digital collage, and “virtual graffiti”; he also discussed a conceptual, minimal, memetic form he calls “ethereal art.” Artist-programmer Monica Rizzolli separately credited Arteiro with teaching her to create and publish an ERC-721 contract, calling him a Brazilian crypto-art pioneer.
Jeff Davis, “In conversation with Monica Rizzolli,” Art Blocks, 21 March 2024, artblocks.io/articles/in-conversation-with-monica-rizzolli (accessed 7 October 2026). ↩︎
Press and criticism
Cited for this account: Nino Arteiro describes himself as a Brazilian, self-taught multidisciplinary cryptoartist working across drawing, painting, digital art, photography, electronic music, poetry, audiovisual work, and performance.
Nino Arteiro, “About,” Nino Arteiro Arts, ninoarteiro.art/about (accessed 7 October 2026). ↩︎