Nuclear Samurai is a digital artist whose post-photographic practice uses AI-generated imagery to explore truth in images, identity in the digital era, and the absurdities of how society is structured. His visual style draws on cinematic, subtly surreal photography, a sensibility rooted in years of work as a commercial and studio photographer.
In 2022, following the death of his father and the birth of his daughter, Nuclear Samurai decided to pursue art full time. That year he began minting on OpenSea and was accepted into the Midjourney beta. His breakthrough came at the end of 2022 with the ten-week narrative collection Nuclear Samurai, which introduced weekly airdrops for collectors and pushed his work toward a more photo-realistic style. His image Eminence, showing a horse amid traffic at twilight, caught the attention of the artist Claire Silver and led to his inclusion in the “Artist x AI 3” exhibition with Superchief Gallery at NFT Paris. For that show he made three further images, The Last Artist, The Last Station, and Lost, all of which sold.
