Robert Alice

Robert Alice makes art, exhibitions and books that investigate blockchains and their histories. Alice's work is collected in public collections, including the Centre Pompidou, LACMA, Bibliothèque Kandinsky and the Monnaie de Paris.

Exhibited internationally, Alice’s work has been subject to reviews by leading curators such as Hans Ulrich Obrist and published in the New York Times, Financial Times, CNN, Forbes, Art Review, Art News, The Art Newspaper and more. The first artist to sell an NFT at a major auction house, their work Portraits of a Mind (2019-) has been credited as one of the early catalysts behind the subsequent rapid growth in the blockchain art space. The project is now part of the National Collection of France. ‍ In 2021, Alice curated 'Natively Digital' at Sotheby's, bringing historic works to market, including Kevin McCoy's Quantum (2014)—the first NFT ever made. The sale raised $17.1 million, setting records for several artists. ‍ In 2022, Alice edited and co-wrote one of the first major art histories of NFTs, commissioned by TASCHEN (On NFTs, 2024). A trained art historian, Alice has lectured internationally on blockchain-based art, most notably co-producing the first academic conference on NFTs at the University of Oxford in 2022, entitled 0xBAT.