About
Vanezuva (Vanessa Z.V.)
I am an interdisciplinary artist and cultural researcher working across video, sound, photography, painting, AI, and blockchain. My practice examines how dominant narratives shape who is seen, heard, and excluded.
My work draws on a background in human rights education and over fifteen years designing community-centered cultural initiatives within museums, schools, and public institutions. I treat these spaces and the technologies that mediate them as material, using art to investigate how cultural value is produced and how creative labor is distributed.
I focus on resource extraction and digital power in relation to the Global South and diasporic experience. Using my own photographs, field recordings, and paintings, I merge lived reality with surrealism and abstraction to reflect on how people and nature become commodified, and how art might intervene.
I engage AI, blockchain, and digital media for what they omit, distort, or erase, reintroducing human intervention and care through interactive archival structures and participatory platforms.
My practice asks: how might cultural futures be more just, inclusive, and regenerative while remaining accountable to the communities and contexts they engage?
Education
MA, Human Rights Education
BFA
Exhibitions
2026 INTERLACE, Artverse, Paris
2025 THE OCEAN HAS INFINITE WAVES, NFT MIAMI & SCOPE Art Show, Art Basel Miami
2025 Courage: Digital Renaissance Residency Exhibition, Jade Carlos Mercado Gallery, Madrid Spain
2025 Linda Exhibition, LUME Studios, NYC
2025 NFT NYC, Times Square & Artists Village Gallery, NYC
2025 Playground Pastime AI Film Contest Finalist
2025 Futurist Conference, Toronto Canada
2025 NFT LA, Superchief Gallery, Los Angeles CA
2025 AxCROSS, KITTE OSAKA, Japan
2025 Tokyo Solid at Art Golden Gai, Nox Gallery, Tokyo Japan
2025 Superchief Nox Tokyo Takeover at Art Golden Gai, Nox Gallery, Tokyo Japan
2025 Superchief Glitch Miami at Art Golden Gai, Nox Gallery, Tokyo Japan
2024 Accelerate Art SCOPE Art Show , Art Basel, Miami
2024 Superchief Glitch Miami SCOPE Art Show , Art Basel, Miami
2024 Inscribing Miami
2024 404 Arts Foundation x White Walls Channel
2024 AIFilm3: Film & Art Festival, Arizona
2024 Subjective Art Festival, LUME Studios, NYC
2024 Wintertuin Festival, Curaçao
2024 Art for Humanity 2, Superlative Gallery, Bali
2024 The Frame, Art Basel, Switzerland
2024 WarpedCast, OSHI Gallery, Melbourne
2024 Art on Tezos: In Motion, NFC Lisbon, Portugal
2024 Noncompliance, The Hague, Netherlands
2024 NFT Bucharest, Romania
2024 Digital Art Death Match, Beeple Studios, Charleston
2024 Genesis Reimagined: Crafting a New World with AI, Colonna Contemporary, Pennsylvania
2024 Dawn of the Spatial Era & Art Universe for Apple Vision Pro
2024 Palm Collective Digital Art: Egalitarian Utopia, LUME Studios, NYC
2024 NFT NYC, Times Square & Artists Village Gallery, NYC
2024 that pART, Commune, Oakland CA
2024 ART&VAULT International Women's Day on Times Square Billboard, NYC
2024 World of Women’s Annual Gala, Paris
2024 NFT Paris, Grand Palais Éphémère, Paris
Residencies / Programs / Recognition
2026 Claire Silver AI Contest 9: We, Finalist
2026 Mondoir Partner Studio Artist
2026 Hedra Ambassador
2026 Artist Commons, Artist Development Program
2025 Digital Renaissance Summer Artist Residency
2025 Artivist Residency, Powered by the Arts & Culture Working Group/ImPACT Coalition
2025 Higgsfield AI Creative Partner
2024 Runway Creative Partners Program
2024 A2 Accelerate Art Cohort 13
2024 Luma AI Early Access Creator Program
2023 Palm Foundation Grantee Winner (x2)
2023 MakersPlace Artist LaunchPad
2022 Voice NFT Residency Season 2
Press
2026 "Visioni Artificiali" column, d La Repubblica, Italy, Featured Interview
2026 Prompt Magazine #17, Print Feature
2024 Midjourney Magazine Issue 17, Featured Interview