Fort Gallery NFT is the NFT curatorial arm of FORT Gallery, an interdisciplinary art space and music venue founded in San Francisco in 2007 by Vanessa Coleman. The gallery expanded across four Bay Area locations over nine years, providing space to hundreds of artists and musicians, before closing in 2016. Coleman later relaunched FORT as a metaverse gallery curating NFT artists on Tezos.
In December 2021, Fort Gallery NFT presented “Metavirtual”, a group exhibition at Art Basel Miami Beach, where Coleman's virtual reality installation was shown via the Oculus Quest 2 for those unable to attend in person. Earlier that year, the gallery had presented the group show “This must be the place” (July-August 2021), and in 2022 it exhibited “FEMME FUTURE” at NFTCON in the Miami Convention Center. In the same year, Fort Gallery partnered with the platform Rarible on “Histórias Fantásticas”, an exhibition themed around fantastical whimsy that featured a poster work by the artist Artdeft, part of a monthly series minted on objkt to document the gallery's artists and exhibitions on the blockchain.
