SHL0MS is a pseudonymous artist working mainly online, blending performance, conceptual art, and viral provocation to challenge conventional notions of artistic value.Active since around 2017, SHL0MS treats the internet, chiefly Twitter/X, as both medium and stage for hoaxes, provocations, and NFT releases that test where the artwork ends and the internet event begins.,
In 2021, ® collaged the logos of every Fortune 100 company into a single image, framed as the first NFT to contain the intellectual property of major corporations and offered as a direct test of fair use.,Later that year, FNTN reimagined Marcel Duchamp's Fountain as a ritual: a readymade sculpture physically smashed, its shards filmed in rotating close-up and sold as a collection.,SHL0MS names Marcel Duchamp and Yves Klein as influences, pointing to Klein's ritual-based sales of immaterial space as a precedent. SHL0MS is frequently compared to the artist Pak.In 2022, CAR filmed 999 fragments of a Lamborghini Huracan detonated in a remote desert location.SEED paired generative images with 155 seed phrases drained, with explicit consent, from each former owner, presented as a work of digital performance.
MOON:BEAM, made with Karborn in 2024, bounced radio signals off the moon during that year's total solar eclipse and released 720 sequential eclipse frames captured during the performance.,SHL0MS has also created work from viral misinformation, including a rumor that Gmail was shutting down.At the “AI Psychosis Summit” in 2026, SHL0MS presented a fabricated video, purporting to be leaked material from the Epstein files, generated with AI tools and depicting Donald Trump and Bill Clinton in a fabricated sexual scandal.,
In 2026, SHL0MS posted a cropped, high-resolution scan of a Claude Monet Water Lilies painting on X, claiming it was AI-generated.,The post asked the public to explain what made the image inferior to a real Monet, and over 600 replies obliged with detailed, confident critiques of brushwork and composition. SHL0MS then minted the same image as an NFT titled inferior image, which sold for just over $40,000 across 28 bids.The work treats the resulting discourse as the artwork, using anxiety about AI-generated images to expose how viewers judge art by category rather than by close looking.,
