Street Art Collector

On Totemo's Street Art Collector this week, Steph sits down with Swedish-born, Toyko-based artist and teacher Kristoffer "Krs" Kullengren, who began his painting path in the digital realm before spreading his colourful, playful style into the physical world as well.  Since 2008, Kris has built up a massive career. He has had more than 20 solo exhibitions in the last 5 years and sold more than 5000...

On Totemo's Street Art Collector this week, Steph sits down with Tokyo-based gallerist and artist Jeremy Strength, who's been actively creating for 25 years, exploring a range of concepts and aesthetics, and running Gallery Ether since 2020: a multimedia contemporary art space, dedicated to exhibiting both known and emerging artists, including NFT exhibitions with this podcast's co-producer, Totem...

On Totemo's Street Art Collector this week, Steph sits down with Dublin-based multi-disciplinary artist EOIN, who's been painting professionally for 17 years and is today recognisable for his murals all around the world, with his unique twisting style.  Always pushing artistic boundaries, he brought his creations to life in three dimensions with VR and continually explores the possibilities of the...

On Totemo's Street Art Collector this week, Steph sits down with TRP613, an Ottawa-based street artist creating murals, stickers, paste-ups, digital art, and sick merch of his signature sailor character. Tyler has been painting since the 90s. He's on the board of directors for Ottawa's annual Hip Hop Festival, House of Paint, he's made his own beer label, and he's basically just doing all sorts of...

On Totemo's Street Art Collector this week, Steph sits down with Damien Arena, a.k.a. Da Imagemaker & Repeat 888, a graffiti, street art and NFT artist who balances commercial mural success with his need to create and explore his own individual style and expressions.  Driven by world and community building, Damien is focused on a chain of creation over crypto's inherent capitalism.  Damien Arena o...

Welcome to our Art NFT Insights series, diving deep into Tezos with artist BreezBlox who has been on the chain from its early days, not only creating and minting work but also participating in the community and its development.  If you've been listening to this series, you'll notice a theme about how the community drives the growth and environment on that chain.  In this episode, BreezBlox and I d...

On Totemo's Street Art Collector this week, Steph sits down with Frenemy, a graffiti and street artist, illustrator, tattoo artist, author, and world creator who has been painting street art and graffiti for more than 20 years.  Frenemy creates trippy intricate characters and designs on the streets and the blockchain, each with backstories, part of a large world that is applied to his walls and br...

Welcome to our Art NFT Insights series, diving deep into Tezos with artist BreezBlox who has been on the chain from its early days, not only creating and minting work but also participating in the community and its development.  Given its insane popularity for artists, I wanted to know what capabilities Tezos has.  In this episode, BreezBlox and I discuss smart contracts, the benefits of Tezos vs...

In this episode, we sit down with Kyle Confehr, a multi-disciplinary artist and creator who's been making art in his spare time forever and full-time since 2019. Although Kyle considers himself a muralist rather than a street artist, he's been able to build his career around his unique doodle style, present in his work across mediums, from walls to NFTs.  Deeply immersed in the NFT community, Kyle...

Welcome to our Art NFT Insights series, diving deep into Tezos with artist BreezBlox who has been on the chain from its early days, not only creating and minting work but also participating in the community and its development.  Tezos is one blockchain that artists specifically - verse say PFP NFT people - mention over and over again. And I wanted to find out WHY.  In this episode, BreezBlox and I...

In this episode, we sit down with Brooklyn-based street artist and designer, K-NOR, who's been at it for more than 15 years, exploring the darker side of human nature with vivid creepy creations that grace walls, canvases and merch, as well as the blockchain.  Although he's excited by the space, working full time, painting the streets and pumping out an eclectic mix of creative projects left him w...

Welcome to our Art NFT Insights series, diving deep into Tezos with artist BreezBlox who has been on the chain from its early days, not only creating and minting work but also participating in the community and its development.  Tezos is one blockchain that artists mention over and over again, and I wanted to find out what leads people here.  In this episode, I sat down with BreezBlox to lay the f...

In this episode, we sit down with yonmeister multi-disciplinary artist who's been painting his homie characters on the streets since 2018 and has gone full throttle since then, painting in the studio, making merch and producing three truly unique NFT projects, connecting the digital and physical worlds. Seriously prolific, Yon is an innovator who gets hyped by the potential of new tech and how it...

Welcome to our Art NFT Insights series with Jane Louise of Oshi Gallery, Australia's premier NFT gallery, headed up by Jane and her partner GT Sewell, who've been exploring the potential of Art on the Blockchain before NFTs were ever a thing.  Raving about blockchain tech since 2017, Jane has become the go-to person for artists looking to get started with NFTs. She's seen, heard and been asked eve...

In this episode, we sit down with Adrian Dominic, a multi-disciplinary artist who paints otherworldly creatures on bodies, canvases, walls and digital spaces.  From early on, Adrian has been experimenting with NFTs and the exciting experiences the blockchain and metaverse can create. His projects have seen great success. He's an avid collector and undeniably an innovator in this world. But even so...

Welcome to our Art NFT Insights series, this time with Jane Louise of Oshi Gallery, Australia's premier NFT gallery, headed up by Jane and her partner GT Sewell, who've been exploring the potential of Art on the Blockchain before NFTs were ever a thing.  In 2017, Jane ran and curated a gallery working in the street art scene with some of the world's most prolific artists. Bitcoin was circulating i...

In this episode, we sit down with LA graffiti and studio artists SEK and Rerun, as well as Totemo co-founder Marty Roberts to discuss their adventures in Tokyo for Totemo's Harajuku Wall Gallery project. Both hailing from LA, SEK is known for his lyrical/text-heavy, abstract, cubist style, while Rerun balances vandalism and fine art, following his compulsion to paint on the streets.  Marty is then...

Welcome back to our Art NFT Insights series, sitting down with Minami Kobayashi, one of the Founders of Totemo, the first NFT marketplace focussing exclusively on street art.  Minami comes from the traditional art world, where she wore many hats working with young Japanese contemporary artists, curating their work and introducing them to new international markets. Today she is the Head of Sales an...

On this episode, we sit down with Chris Haven, an artist, skateboarder and musician who's been prolifically creating since his young years. Starting in graffiti and moving into street art, murals, merch and every other creative outlet that takes his fancy, Chris's latest endeavour is NFTs, where he codes geolocation data in his creations, tying the physical to the digital in his Web3 creations.  ...

Welcome back to our Art NFT Insights series, sitting down with Minami Kobayashi, one of the Founders of Totemo, the first NFT marketplace focussing exclusively on street art.  Minami comes from the traditional art world, where she wore many hats working with young Japanese contemporary artists, curating their work and introducing them to new international markets. Today she is the Head of Sales an...

On this episode, we sit down with Laser 3.14, a street artist and street poet spraying messages poignant, thoughtful, sometimes humourous and sometimes confronting on the streets of Amsterdam and beyond.   In the early days of his NFT journey, but now well immersed, Laser 3.14 sees the draw of this subculture as similar to that of graffiti and hip hop back in the days, where incredible things are...

Welcome to our Art NFT Insights series, this time sitting down with Elena Calderon Alaez, one of the Founders of Totemo, the first NFT marketplace focussing exclusively on street art.  Elena is the Head of Curation, working directly with artists to get them set up and best potioned to thrive.  On this episode, Elena dives into what artists need to do to work best with their partners. Not just mark...

On this episode, we sit down with OCOTE, a social psychologist and visual artist who works across many disciplines, including public art installations, street art, painting, collage, digital illustration and animation.  Vivid and futuristic, OCOTE's work often reflects Mexico's ancient roots alongside contemporary concepts.  Well-immersed in Web3, OCOTE shares his experiences on different blockcha...

Welcome to our Art NFT Insights series, this time sitting down with Elena Calderon Alaez, one of the Founders of Totemo, the first NFT marketplace focussing exclusively on street art.  Elena is the Head of Curation, speaking daily with artists to get them set up and positioned to thrive in this new digital market.  On this episode, Elena shares her experience onboarding artists and discovering the...

On this episode, we sit down with Chris RWK, a long-time graffiti and street artist who's been tech-ahead since the early 2000s and looking at the future with the same approach.  Enthusiastic about his artistic development in all mediums, Chris is excited about the passion within the NFT world, but not without caution about who to work with and how to spend his time.  Chris RWK online:  https://tw...