Refraction DAO is an artist-owned community that organizes digital art, music, and cultural events online, onchain, and in person. Founded in 2021, by December 2023 it had run 27 international events, minted more than 2,500 NFTs, and returned over $500,000 to its 700-plus artist members.
In 2022 Refraction DAO staged an exhibition during Art Basel Miami that included new video work by the Brazilian artist and filmmaker Kika Nicolela. That same year it presented Sweet Circle by Saeko Ehara, curated by Dina Chang and Malcolm Levy, at ZeroSpace in Brooklyn. In 2023 it hosted a rave in Paris during EthCC, with visual art curated by the artist Agoria. In late 2023 it partnered with the Tezos Foundation on an exhibition at Art Basel Miami's South Beach, where artists including Adaeze Okaro, Marcelo Soria-Rodríguez, and Che-Yu Wu showed work.
