Kaloh, publicly identified as Hugo Santana, is a Venezuelan writer, curator and generative artist working in blockchain art. Kaloh founded Kaloh's Newsletter, a Substack publication on blockchain art that grew to more than 10,000 readers, and Blind Gallery, a blind NFT collecting platform on Tezos that has worked with more than 70 blockchain artists.
As a child, Kaloh drew on collected toilet paper rolls, a habit later revisited in the 2021 piece Empty Toilet Paper Roll. Kaloh worked with a team of artists, developers and collectors to co-found Unibotz, a 4,210-piece NFT collection on Tezos whose royalties fund an art fund supporting emerging artists and the wider Tezos NFT economy. Kaloh released a first generative art collection, Impossible Sneakers, on FxHash in February 2022, after spending two months learning the p5.js coding library to produce abstract, sneaker-shaped forms. Kaloh followed this with Soto, a 2022 FxHash collection of 270 editions built from moving line strands that reference the kinetic sculpture of Venezuelan artist Jesus Soto, whose work Kaloh encountered at MoMA in London.
