ClownVamp (American) is a conceptual artist based in New York City who combines AI-generated imagery with narrative writing to create interactive, alt-history story worlds.He works anonymously and began as a collector before creating AI art of his own, using storytelling to examine queerness and invented history.,
ClownVamp entered Web3 as a collector, buying and trading early Bitcoin and NBA Top Shot before turning to NFT art on Tezos.,There he encountered artists experimenting with early latent-diffusion tools and, after joining the Midjourney beta, began making his own AI-generated images. His pseudonym comes from a CryptoPunk with both clown and vampire traits, which he briefly used as a profile picture before selling it to fund his early collecting.,His first series, The Truth (2022), is a non-chronological alt-history science-fiction narrative in which an Impressionist painter records scenes from an alien invasion, each image paired with a diary entry.,He followed it with Detective Jack (2022), an interactive murder-mystery on Tezos in which collectors keep or burn weekly drops to steer a branching storyline toward one of several endings.A prequel, Detective Jack: The Cold Case (2023), released through BrainDrops on Ethereum and reconstructed an unsolved case from Detective Jack's past as a case file that collectors could piece together.
ClownVamp is a gay artist who, in 2023, presented “Chester Charles: The Lost Grand Master”, a solo show in New York staging a retrospective for an invented queer Impressionist painter whose 23 works were framed as a rediscovered estate find.,The project grew out of an AI generation error that produced two fathers instead of one, which led him to explore the absence of queer imagery from art history. The show was curated by Mika Bar-On Nesher and Linda Dounia Rebeiz and staged at Canvas 3.0 in partnership with SuperRare and Transient Labs.ClownVamp also curated “Deep Fake”, an AI art exhibition presented by SuperChief Gallery with MAIF, the AI artist group he founded.,
In 2025 ClownVamp presented THE JUNK MACHINE, an interactive installation built around a robot housing an embedded NVIDIA Jetson computer that generates and prints AI images on demand.Visitors press a button to produce surreal, gluttony-inspired prints, a mechanism he described as a critique of how AI can be industrialized into a tool for mass-produced imagery and advertising.,The installation opened at MAD Arts in Dania Beach, Florida, on October 2, 2025, and ran through December 7.,
