Jimena Buena Vida is a Colombian-born artist based in the United States who creates abstract generative art that combines coding with emotional healing and personal transformation.,Trained in computer science and engineering, she works intuitively with JavaScript-based tools such as p5.js, treating her motion graphics as a form of visual meditation and her code as a medium for vibrant abstraction.,,
She has cited Anne Spalter and HolaLou as influences whose early generosity encouraged her to work in web3.Buena Vida entered the NFT space in 2021 and created Perfect and Easy, a set of 44 works completed in 44 days.She has described her art as a form of catharsis meant to help viewers process trauma and move toward self-love and compassion for others.Buena Vida made Happenings, a 222-piece collection created with Kokako_Loon on the platform fxhash and drawn from the unpredictable moments of parenting.,Her animated work Where We Come From was also included in the 23rd Annual Latin GRAMMY Awards NFT Collection.
In July 2023, as an artist in residence at Bright Moments, she made Epiphanies, a 201-piece generative collection created with p5.js that reflects on clarity and uncertainty in a post-pandemic world.,She also made All Our Faces, a generative collection exploring layers of personal identity that sold out within 45 minutes of its release on an Ethereum layer 2.Her generative work Echoes Of Frida: Sutura, made with p5.js and drawing on the life of Frida Kahlo, opened Art Blocks' In Resonance program, which commissioned artists to create personal responses to figures who had influenced them.In 2024 her work was included in “The Art of Punk”, a museum exhibition of artists from the CryptoPunk community held at the Francisco Carolinum Museum in Linz, Austria.In 2025 she released Between Every Line, Love, her first long-form generative art collection on Bitcoin, on the platform Gamma, inspired by Dan Flavin's light installations and centered on self-love and transformation.She has also released work through SuperRare, Foundation, and fxhash.
