Bryan Brinkman (b. 1985) makes hand-drawn, frame-by-frame animations that explore identity, memory, and humanity's relationship with technology. Born in Omaha, Nebraska, he lives and works in New York City. His vivid color palettes and kinetic, character-driven style recast Pop Art traditions in a digital idiom, drawing on an earlier career in television and advertising animation.
After graduating from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia with a degree in animation, Brinkman worked as a graphic artist and motion designer on television productions including Saturday Night Live and The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. He entered the NFT space in 2020, releasing his debut edition series The Cloudy Collection on NiftyGateway that October alongside one-of-one animations on SuperRare including Explode, Revolution, and Vortex. That year he also released Frankfurt Candy Shoppe, a fictional storefront packaged as a bundle of NFTs and built inside the Cryptovoxels metaverse for Pranksy Land, a multi-artist collaboration that also included Coldie and Hackatao. In 2021 he released NimBuds on Art Blocks, a generative series later included in the 2025 Milestones exhibition surveying five years of on-chain generative art at Art Blocks' gallery in Marfa, Texas.
