MintFace is a pseudonymous artist and painter who founded The Line, a metaverse art community whose galleries connect artist to artist without hierarchy or competition for visibility. Its physical outpost in Hastings, New Zealand, shows primarily his paintings alongside works by other artists on The Line.
In 2021 he published The Minted Book, a physical book chronicling nearly 100 NFT artists that was itself sold as an NFT and marked the first time many NFT collectors received something tangible for an NFT purchase. He later curated a spatial gallery that revisited a selection of the artists originally featured in the book. MintFace, whose given name is Ryan, has also taught a course on the NFT digital artist economy, covering how artists mint, price and launch a collection.
