Selected work:
2023 Allen Who?, a poem performed at the Allen Ginsberg tribute organized by the Verse Verse Gallery & the Allen Ginsberg Estate
2023 Bootlicking, a filmed performance presented at the Mint Gold Dust Gallery
2023 Nicea Two, presented at the Monograma Gallery
2023 New Conversations, a series of four videos minted on the MakersPlace gallery for World Poetry Day
2023 The Gift of Love, a series of four videos commissioned by Vanessa Coleman, Founder and Curator at Fort Gallery NFT.
2023 Imperceptibly, a series of three digital sculptures (Minted on the artist’s own smart contract on Manifold)
2022 Vice, a series of six NFTs
2022 Repository, a series of 26 NFTs (Foundation)
2022 Mario (One unique NFT) (The Verse Verse Gallery)
2021 Income, a series of six NFTs (The Verse Verse Gallery)
2021 Random Homo sapiens, a series of two hundred NFTs (Open Sea)
2021 The Inner life of crypto punks, a series of nine NFTs (Hic et Nunc)
2021 The Archipelago (Async Art)
2020 The Appearance of Respectability, a series of six NFTs (Hic et Nunc)
2020 City Life, a series of ten NFTs (Foundation)
2020 Amy’s Hearings, acrylic painting on canvas (12ft x 4ft)
2019 Social Status, Moral Order and Public Hygiene, a series of eight NFTs (Snark.Art Gallery)
2002 Warmly love the Motherland, Digital photography
2000 Humiliation, Soumission, Domination, Triptych, Acrylic on canvas
1996 Public art performance, Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris, in the class of Prof. Robert Conrath
1990-1991 Extraction series, Oil on canvas.
Selected exhibitions:
2023
Oct 19, Bootlicking, exhibited at the Mint Gold Dust X SuperChief Gallery (NYC), curated by Virginia Valenzuela and Chris Kokiousis
Sept 9, Public performance of the poem Allen Who? at Lume Studios (NYC), at an event celebrating the legacy of Allen Ginsberg, organized by the VerseVerse Gallery and the Ginsberg Estate, curated by Sasha Stiles
Aug 4 -10, The Appearance of Respectability (2020) exhibited at the Chimera Gallery, curated by Anastasia Ustrugova
June 12-19, New Conversations II (Politics) curated by $WHALE in the Crypto-Poetry exhibition “Unveiling Echoes” at MakersPlace
May 31, launch of Talking Over, a generative piece on FxHash created in collaboration with visual artist Diego Pintos, curated by Fort Gallery NFT (Vanessa Coleman) and the NFT Museum of Newberry, SC (Robert Matheson)
May 25 - July 25, Mario and Artificial Intelligence exhibited at the POEME OBJKT exhibition at Librairie Galerie Metamorphoses (Paris), curated by The Verse Verse
April 12-14, Mutiny (2022) curated to be exhibited at NFT NYC 2023 Artist’s Village (Times Square & Hudson Yards)
March 21 -28, New Conversations featured in the MakersPlace Gallery for World Poetry Day
Feb 14-27, Participation in the group exhibition Poetic Justice, curated by Vanessa Coleman at Fort Gallery NFT
Jan 27-28, Launch of the series VICE at IGNITE Broward, presented by Broward County Cultural Division in partnership with MAD Arts, featuring immersive large-scale projection mapping and interactive light sculptures and installations in Fort Lauderdale and Dania Beach, Florida. Live public performance of VICE.
2022
Dec 14, Launch of Artificial Intelligence (Ed. of 12), an Infinite Object, in the collection Handheld Poems, curated by the VerseVerse.
Nov 29 - Dec 3, Participation in a group exhibition at The Gateway: a Web3 Metropolis, Miami. Curated by The VerseVerse.
Nov 11-13, Exhibition at CADAF Art Fair NYC 2022, at Web3 NYC Gallery, 5th Ave, NYC. Public poetry performance of “Mario”.
Oct 14, 2022, Pop-up Experimental crypto poetry exhibition at Unit Gallery (London) curated by The VerseVerse
Sept 22, 2022 - Jan 31, 2023, The Inner Life of Cryptopunks #603, Mathilda (2021), presented at the Museum of Wild and Newfangled Art (NYC)’s Tezos group exhibition, curated by Cari Ann Shim Sham and Joey Zaza.
Sept 13-20, 2022, Participation in the “Rogue 45” voyage in the Exotopia project, made in collaboration with the SETI Institute. Created and produced by Scott Kindall, Story written by Bettina Forget.
Sept 7, 2022, The Inner Life of Cryptopunks presented on the front page of OBJKT.com, curated by Cabline
Sept 5, 2022, 11th Parallel presented at the Group exhibition at the Monograma gallery, curated by Herve Delhumeau, in the Spatial metaverse
Aug 24-28, 2022, Decentraland Crypto Art Week, Live poetry reading curated by The VerseVerse in association with Artnet
Aug 6, 2022, Mario presented at the Group exhibition at SuperRare gallery ( SoHo, NYC), curated by The VerseVerse
June 1-30, 2022, Group exhibition “Paris Digital Art Month”, organized by CADAF and curated by Elena Zavelev and Jess Conatser (Paris, France)
April 4-5, 2022, Group Exhibition curated by Vertical Crypto Art, Pavilhão Carlos Lopes (Lisbon, Portugal)
April 2022: Group exhibition “POEM = WORK OF ART” at the Francisco Carolinum Museum (Linz, Austria), curated by The Verse Verse
March 2022: Group Exhibition “The Guardian Project”, organized by Monograma and curated by Herve Delhumeau and Patrick Amadon. Each piece is geotagged on the SuperWorld App around the location of at-risk communities in the Amazon rainforest.
February 2022: Random Homo sapiens presented at a group exhibition at The Museum of Wild and Newfangled Art (NYC), curated by Cari Ann Shim Sham
January 2022: Group exhibition and auction in the Arium Metaverse for the second cohort of artists residents at Vertical Crypto Art residency.
2021
December 2021: Fort Gallery NFT, “Metavirtual”, a group exhibition presented at Art Basel Miami Beach 2021, curated by Vanessa Coleman
November 2021: Inaugural group exhibition at The Verse Verse gallery, curated by Sasha Stiles, Ana Maria Caballero, and Karen Iwamoto
September 2021 / Jan 2022: The Museum of Wild and Newfangled Art (NYC), “This show is curated by a machine” group exhibition, curated by Cari Ann Shim Sham
August 2021: Monograma group exhibition, curated by Herve Delhumeau
July / August 2021: Fort Gallery NFT, “This must be the place” group exhibition, curated by Vanessa Coleman
June 2021: Participation in the World’s first group art show in Augmented Reality organized by Super World in Central Park (June 6, 2021)
Speaking engagements:
2023
Panel Host “The future of poetry and text-based art on the blockchain” at the NFT Academic Web3 Conference, April 7, 2023
Guest of the New York University podcast “Speaker Lunch Series”, March 9, 2023.
Guest Lecturer (Lecture on “Introduction to Crypto-Poetry”) at the University of Anchorage Alaska, Department of English, in the class of Dr. Bowie, Sociolinguist and Chair of the Department of English, March 2nd, 2023.
2022
Panelist at New York University’s Spirit Week 2022, talk about the future of crypto art, Oct 18th, 2022.
Speaker at New York University, School of Professional Studies for the Metaverse Bootcamp “The use of NFTs for art: Getting rid of the burden of physicality”, at the invitation of Dr. Elizabeth Haas (Oct 7th, 2022)
Speaker at NFT NYC 2022 “The future of news media in the Metaverse” (June 2022)
Moderator at the Connect.Club event “How NFTs are unlocking a new digital economy”, April 20, 2022
Featured Speaker delivering the closing keynote at the CODA Summit: “Making creative placemaking the true reflection of a city's social fabric”, NSU Art Museum, Fort Lauderdale (FL), April 8, 2022
Speaker at the New York University event “Hospitality Industry and the Metaverse”, moderated by Dr. Richie Karaburun, March 10, 2022
Featured speaker for the talk “A brief History - and Future - of Text-Based Art” organized by The Verse Verse gallery, moderated by Sasha Stiles, February 23, 2022
2021
“The use of language in crypto art”, Museum of Wild and Newfangled Art (NYC), Dec 3, 2021
Participation in the panel discussion for the exhibition “Title to be determined” at Starta Arta Gallery (NYC), moderated by Dmitry Kiper. Oct. 6, 2021
Guest lecturer: “The use of language in visual arts: the irresistible temptation of political subversion”, City University of New York, Queens College Arts, class of Prof. Heng-Gil Han, April 20, 2021
Residencies:
Monograma Artist Villa Residency in Miami during the Miami Art Week (Dec 6-10, 2023)
Vertical Crypto Art residency, second cohort (Oct/Dec 2021)
Museums
Talking Over (2023), A collaborative piece made with artist Diego Pintos, was acquired by the NFT Museum of Newberry in May 2023 for its permanent collection
The Inner Life of Cryptopunks #603, Mathilda (2021), has been acquired by the Museum of Wild and Newfangled Art (NYC) in June 2022 to be part of its permanent collection
The Inner Life of Cryptopunks #768, Andre (2021), has been acquired by the Tezos Foundation on Sept 10, 2022, to be part of its permanent collection. Curated by Misan Harriman.
In the Media
Allen Who? published in the Tickle magazine, issue #89, Nov. 2023. Editor: Johnny Dean Mann
Interview by Timothy Green on The Rattle podcast #200 “NFT Poets”, July 3, 2023
Income I published in The Rattle poetry magazine #80, Summer 2023 (p. 57)
Interview by Brady Walker for MakersPlace Magazine, March 2023
Featured in the Turkish Poetry Theory Criticism Magazine Buzdokuz, Issue #14, December 2022. Editor in Chief: Hayriye Unal, Poetry Editor: Hakan Sarkdemir
Featured in the Turkish Poetry Theory Criticism Magazine Buzdokuz, Issue #12, August 2022. Editor in Chief: Hayriye Unal, Poetry Editor: Hakan Sarkdemir
Commissioned piece “One Possible Future”, published in the inaugural edition of the literary publication The Tickle Lit (June 10th, 2022). Editors: Johnny Dean Mann & Joanne Rush.
Featured in The Mint (May 13, 2022), in the article “How do NFTs work?”
Quoted in Click Right Save (May 4, 2022), in the article “NFT and the rebirth of the reader”, by Yehudit Mam
Featured in Outland Art (March 2, 2022), Income VI reviewed by art critic Ann Hirsch
Featured in the Snark Dot Art News Digest, February 18, 2022
Cover story and feature for Mario in The Tickle, Issue #30 (January 28th, 2022) Pierre Gervois Special Edition
Featured in Vertical Crypto Art (January 12, 2022 issue), article by art critic Harry Jones- about the piece “Government Exhibit 606 (The Banality of Evil)”
Artist statement:
I started painting in 1988, and incorporated elements of language in my work in 2000. Since 2019, my work is a witness of American society, without judgment, emotion, or stated point of view. I’m a crypto artist since May 2021.
The elements of language that inhabit my works do not exist separately from the entire artwork. They are organically part of the subject (the black rectangle) and the singularity (the small rectangle on the right side). These elements of language lose their meaning if they are considered separately and therefore cannot be considered as quotes. They are exactly what they are, in their purest and original intent, as markings on a material surface of undefined scale, in an unspecified location, at an unspecified time, drifting in the Metaverse’s deep space.
I never really understood the rules of living in society. As a child, I was doing what I was told to do, and actively tried to obey instructions but never really had a good grasp of why I had to act a certain way and respect social norms. I always felt I was like an astronaut who just landed on a new celestial body and was exploring a new world with very few clues on what to do and how to socially behave in the expected way. I didn’t have an opinion on social rules’ validity and I just didn’t understand who could have the legitimacy to edict them.
My work describes the exercise of power in all aspects, from socially humiliating micro-moments of our daily life to future political issues in the Mars colonies.
NFT platforms:
https://foundation.app/@pgervois
https://makersplace.com/pierregervois/gallery/created
https://async.art/u/pgervois/collection
https://objkt.com/profile/tz1VK8SfhAkQ9QdFH9EixsQNmUqi9GF5iJR9/created
Education
-The Alternative Art School, 2023
-Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris, Master in Constitutional law and Political science, 1997
-University of Paris Nanterre, Master in Philosophy of art, 1995, under the direction of Prof. Jacqueline Lichtenstein.
Pierre Gervois is a French-born American artist born in 1969. He has lived and worked in New York City since 2013. He is Adjunct Professor at New York University, teaching Metaverse & Blockchain applications, and Co-Host of NYU’s Metaverse podcast “The Whole Metaverse”. He is also a panelist at the Brooklyn Art Council for grants to Brooklyn artists.