Olive Allen is a New York-based NFT artist and tech entrepreneur working at the intersection of art, tech, and gaming. She is a cryptocurrency early adopter and one of the pioneers of the NFT space.
Olive Allen is one of the first artists to work with the concept of Metaverse by creating immersive virtual environments for recent solo show at Postmasters Gallery in New York.
With her former startup Decadent she did the very first NFT drop in history (October 2019) and coined the term. One of the most popular NFT marketplaces today, and indirectly many others, were influenced by Olive's early work.
Since then, her NFT artworks have been a part of museum shows and acquired by many prominent collectors in both NFT space, and the traditional art world. Olive's NFT artwork Post-Death was the first NFT sold at a major international art fair, Art Basel in Switzerland in 2021.
Olive burned her Russian passport in front of Russian Consulate in NYC to protest the war in Ukraine and created NFT from it to raise funds to support humanitarian efforts.
She was named top 100 NFT creators by nft now.
Representation: WME
Notable Collaborations/Exhibitions: TIME, Meta, WWF, Instagram, Christie’s, Sotheby’s, Art Basel; Kunsthalle Museum, König Gallery, Nagel Draxler Gallery
Conference Speaker: NFT NYC (4 times), Collision Conference, Unfinished LIVE and many others
Featured in: L’OFFICIEL, CNBC, The New York Times, Artnet, Forbes, CoinDesk, Cointelegraph, Whitewall
🤓: ETHDenver 2023 Gaming/Metaverse winner