neurocolor is a pseudonymous digital artistbased in Mexico City whose work combines physical painting, digital photography and glitch techniques into a cyberpunk and vaporwave visual language.The name has served as a creative compass since around 2005, guiding a practice centered on perception, consciousness and dream states.
Neurocolor began making digital images in high school, and was later pushed toward painting by Mexico City's Faculty of Arts and Design. He went on to reject the culture of the established art world and, operating under his alias, sold prints on platforms such as Big Cartel and Saatchi Art before turning to NFTs.Since then, he has kept his identity private, describing the anonymous persona as, in his words, “a kind of anonymous brand-persona” that is also a performance in itself.He has described himself in his own words as “a painter and digital artist with a heavy tendency to use vibrant colors, dark motifs and abstract patterns”.
After discovering NFTs, he collaborated with Moxarra Gonzalez to found “The NonNFT Summit”, conceived to revive the spirit of crypto art that existed before the Beeple sale and the rise of profile-picture projects.In 2022 he and the artist XCOPY created Genesis, the ticket artwork for the Non-Fungible Conference in Lisbon.That year he also released Death.exe on Foundation, a piece the artist XCOPY cited when asked which artists excited him most.
For “Chromatic Drift”, an exhibition and drop presented by objkt.one at Un Sueño Digital in Mexico City on December 13, he showed animations built from his own VR-sculpted models that behave like radial organic entities resembling alien organisms or molecular nanobots. Looping in perpetual motion and shown alongside works by the artist Psychofuturist, the pieces were intended to leave viewers with, in his words, “a touch of vertigo, a bit of disorientation, and a sense of surprise”.The artist Psychofuturist, who showed alongside him at Chromatic Drift, has said he first heard the term “psychofuturistic” from neurocolor, who used it with a friend to classify an emerging movement built on color and perception.