nygilia is a Caribbean diaspora artist and researcher who creates surreal, posthumanist characters and fantasy worlds, including her character Alzena.,She entered the NFT space during the lockdown of early 2021, while working her first industry job, wanting to tell her own story on her own terms.
Raised in New York, she traces her heritage to her father's birthplace in Portland, Jamaica, and describes her use of technology as a form of “relational accountability” to that heritage. Her practice unfolds in what she calls a “nostalgic-posthuman” digital space, a “mythological architecture” built with generative and VR tools where Caribbean folklore figures such as River Mumma can exist with their own spiritual agency. She has described aspiring toward community-driven digital toolkits that would let African and Caribbean communities sustain their own cultural sovereignty.
In 2023 she took part in “How High the Moon”, a group exhibition of African and diaspora NFT artists at The NFT Gallery in New York, showing the work The Chains Are Still Here. In an interview accompanying the show, she said she had previously sold character creations of Alzena on both Ethereum and Tezos and hoped to bring the character into a video game.In 2024 she contributed Archetype, an AI-generated image from the series Echoes of Eden, to an open-call catalogue of international AI artists.
