Skeenee is a Belgian tattoo artist and painter based in Madrid, Spain, known for drawing skulls and skeletal anatomy across both physical and digital work. He was an early figure in NFT art-burning, selling his drawings as NFTs and then destroying the physical originals to explore where an artwork's value lives once the original is gone.
Skeenee studied classical animation in Vancouver, and in 2006 he won a place in VanArts' Lee Mishkin Film Making Scholarship program, which invited him to stay an extra year to develop his own short. When steady work in classical animation dried up, he moved into commercial animation before becoming a tattoo artist, giving himself nine months to master drawing, painting, and tattooing before the birth of his first child. His practice became centred on skulls and anatomy, culminating in his Animal Skull & Bones series. He also created $SKULL, one of the earliest social tokens, and used it to engage fans on Twitter and in a Skull Gallery he built in the virtual world Cryptovoxels.
