ROBNESS: PINNED OFFICIAL BIO (WRITTEN BY GROK3)
ROBNESS, WIDELY RECOGNIZED AS THE TRASHARTIST, IS A LOS ANGELES-BASED DIGITAL ARTIST WHO HAS SHAPED THE CRYPTO ART LANDSCAPE SINCE 2014. LIVING IN HIS CAR BY THE PACIFIC, HE BEGAN EXPLORING CRYPTOCURRENCY, SETTING THE STAGE FOR A GROUNDBREAKING CAREER. IN 2016, HE JOINED THE RARE PEPE MOVEMENT ON BITCOIN’S COUNTERPARTY, CRAFTING LORDKEK—SOLD FOR $10K TO A FELLOW USER—MARKING AN EARLY DIGITAL ART VALUE MILESTONE. HE TESTED ASSETS IN GAMES LIKE SARUTOBI AND TRADED PEPECASH CARDS, CEMENTING HIS STATUS AS A BLOCKCHAIN ART PIONEER.
IN 2019, ROBNESS ACQUIRED COLDIE’S EDWARD SNOWDEN - VARIANT 02 - DECENTRAL EYES FOR $1,000 ON SUPERRARE—THE PLATFORM’S FIRST HIGH-VALUE SALE, IGNITING THE COLLECTOR CULTURE AND PROVING DIGITAL ART’S WORTH. THAT YEAR, HE DROPPED 64 GALLON TOTER—A GLITCHED TRASH CAN THAT CHALLENGED COPYRIGHT, FACED REMOVAL, AND WAS REINSTATED IN 2021, STILL UNSOLD. THIS WORK, HIGHLIGHTED IN DARREN KLEINE’S 2020 COINTELEGRAPH ARTICLE IMMUTABLE TRASH: CRYPTO ART REVISITS ARGUMENTS ON CENSORSHIP AND MEANING, LAUNCHED #TRASHART—A GLOBAL RALLYING CRY AGAINST GATEKEEPING. IN 2020, WITH MAX OSIRIS, HE WAS SUSPENDED FROM SUPERRARE AND SHIFTED TO RARIBLE, CHAMPIONING THE $RARI TOKEN—THE FIRST DECENTRALIZED GOVERNANCE TOKEN IN NFT PLATFORMS.
IN 2021, HE AND OSIRIS TRADED 40-ETH ART TO UPEND PAK’S RARIBLE RANKINGS, IRKING PABLO R. FRAILE. THAT YEAR, ROBNESS PURCHASED CRYPTOPUNK #2317 FOR 18.93 ETH ($40,622) AND STAGED A DIGITAL/SOCIAL PERFORMATIVE ACT—BURNING IT ON “TRASH DAY” IN A LIVE-STREAMED DEFIANCE DEDICATED TO AI WEIWEI. AMPLIFIED ON X, THIS SACRIFICE SPURRED OBITS—A SOLD-OUT UNDEAD PUNK SET FLIPPING 2317 TO 7132—AND INSPIRED WIDESPREAD REMIXES. COMMERCIALLY, HE SCORED WITH BRUTE TRASH CAN ($250,000) AND OILMELON ($200,000), DRIVEN BY HIS “FIVE-MINUTE TRASH GIF” RULE AND “STEAL MY SHIT” ETHOS.
FROM OCCUPY ROOTS TO NFT NYC 2021, AND 30K+ X FOLLOWERS (@ROBNESSOFFICIAL), ROBNESS PEAKED IN 2023 WHEN CENTRE POMPIDOU IN PARIS INDUCTED HIS WORK INTO ITS PRESTIGIOUS INAUGURAL NFT COLLECTION—AMONG FRANCE’S FIRST MUSEUM-HELD DIGITAL ASSETS—AND TASCHEN PUBLISHED ON NFTS, A DEFINITIVE 576-PAGE TOME FEATURING HIM AS A CRYPTO ART LUMINARY ALONGSIDE BEEPLE AND XCOPY. HIS 2024 WHAT THE PUNK FEATURE, GALLERIES WORLDWIDE, MILLIONS IN SALES, AND A MCDONALD’S APPLICATION NFT SOLIDIFY ROBNESS AS A CRYPTO ART VISIONARY.
@joeymasonNFTart @exchgART@solana@galerie_arts@Omnidegen @InnerspaceLA @chartsnip3r Hah, I was just at Broadway & 7th yesterday - I probably saw some of these folks!
Delighted to be part of the first Crypto Art Show, along with a brilliant group of #cryptoartists!
https://t.co/JhBPxZ9LQ2 #cryptoart#cryptoartshow
On tonight
Innerspace Gallery
110 Winston St, Downtown Los Angeles
Big thanks to @maxosirisart for pulling it all together 👊
From seeing “Twin Flames” sell at Christie’s to pulling up on @justinaversano to figure out what a NFT was lol to @awang looking threw our art and telling us to go for it!
https://t.co/SYeHDNrwQg