DanCtrl, the alias of Danilo Xhema, is a digital artist with a background in traditional painting who works by letting software take control of the image, allowing tools as simple as an alignment function to dictate its destruction or abstraction.,His practice places emphasis on simplicity and the power of concept, working primarily with the gradient tool as an expressive form.
In January 2023 his work featured in “Tez in Japan”, an exhibition of Tezos-based digital art.That May, Fakewhale Cross included his piece WELCOME in the “METRO ROOTS” release, a Weekly Art Market drop grouping eight artists.His piece Alice later ran as the cover image for 100 Collectors' interview series Collecting Minds.
In July 2024 his work was among more than 40 artists featured in Fakewhale's “ART MARKET” debut on Foundation.That October he was included among more than 60 artists in the first “ART MARKET Day” on objkt.com.In March 2025 he was one of 24 artists in Fakewhale's “Visual Detachment” at Verse, an exhibition on the biases built into visual perception.In June 2025 he produced a commissioned artwork for Season One of the objkt Art Pack, a tradable NFT booster pack awarded to collectors on objkt.com.He is one of 137 artists credited in Collecting Art Onchain, a book documenting a decade of on-chain art history through interviews with 39 collectors.
