Contemporary artist · since 2008

UNIKEL

Real gold. Real currency. Real blood. The material is the statement.

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HUMAN DEPARTMENT — Your Job Trained Your Replacement
2026NEW SERIES

HUMAN DEPARTMENT — the posters

A poster series on labour, dignity and who owns a mind. It borrows the language one system of control used to give orders, and turns it on the one being built now. Three works, each printed and then finished by hand in the studio — acrylic, stamps, strike-throughs — signed, numbered and sealed.

WAR — No One Left to Bury Us
2025–2026MUSEUM COLLECTION

WAR — the collection museums ask for

Painted with real blood, framed in thousands of spent bullet casings. The series is not for sale — it travels on institutional loan. New canvases are in progress on the tyrannies still running today, and a film that runs from the first human conflict to the last nuclear flash.

EARTH — What Grows in the Dark, the first work of the new collection
AUG 2026NEW SERIES

EARTH — the new collection begins

A new room opens. Real earth, mixed into the paint — and everything that grows from it. The first works are here: What Grows in the Dark and the diptych Unbroken.

DIAMONDS — three new works
2026NEW WORKS

DIAMONDS — three new works

Three new canvases join the series painted with diamond powder — Diamond Rain, Vertical Fortune and Black Star. The work that opened the collection, Stellar Diamonds, is now in a private collection.

NEW YORK — the city, banded by hand
2021–2026NEW WORKS

NEW YORK — the city, cut by one line

Photographs reworked and cut in the studio, printed on canvas, then banded by hand in acrylic. Two new works join the series — 56 Leonard and Cables. Editions of five, signed and sealed.

Real gold. Real currency. Real blood.

MONEY — real gold in the paint
DEC 2024EXHIBITION

Art Basel Miami — the gold, the glamour, the blood

UNIKEL showed during Art Basel Miami. Haute Living wrote that she “stole the show.”

GENDER — created for Pride Month
2023COLLECTION

GENDER — created for Pride Month

Three works on identity, freedom and the roles handed out at birth. Covered by the Village Voice.

Each collection takes one subject — and refuses to make it comfortable.