Nyla Hayes is a digital artist who creates Long Neckie, colorful portraits of women with long necks inspired by her love of the Brontosaurus.She began drawing at age four, moved into digital art at nine, and released her first Long Neckie NFTs in 2021 after her uncle introduced her mother to the technology.,
By February 2022 her collection Long Neckie Ladies, comprising 3,333 pieces, had sold more than 1,573 ETH — over $4 million — through OpenSea.In October 2021 TIME's NFT initiative TIMEPieces named her its first artist in residence.Three months later she released Long Neckie Women of the Year, a 1,000-piece TIMEPieces collection that drew on the visual style of Long Neckie Ladies.,In an interview she discussed using art to cope with difficult emotions, cited Frida Kahlo as an inspiration, and credited her family's support for her practice.
In 2022 she was featured alongside Julie Pacino and Jenkins the Valet at the opening of The Gall3ry, an NFT gallery in Venice, Los Angeles, as a client of the Creative Artists Agency.In March 2024 she released Lady V, 348 hand-drawn artworks inscribed on Bitcoin as an Ordinals collection through AudioGalleries and sold on the platform Magic Eden.
