June 2026 Spotlight of Art On Tezos

I went to check and was pleasantly surprised by the rise in nominations for the ‘ART’icle of the Month, and five names have been selected through those nominations for another spotlight. As always, I spun the wheel, got to curating, and found that each one of these artists is creating work worth stopping to enjoy.

Commenting, hashtagging, or quote posting with the keyword tezARTicle is what keeps this spotlight special. When people nominate, they are telling the artist that they have discovered something moving. What moves me may not move everybody, so keep nominating to maintain diversity.

What follows are the five artists nominated and selected for June and an artwork of theirs to anchor each spotlight. The artwork does the heavy lifting. I’m here to offer a point of entry and perhaps a conversation starter. Most importantly, I hope you enjoy the art.

MEMORY C:\\ — by Cap’n Cap’n: Pixel Artist

This artist speaks mostly through the visuals, but with a little bit of digging you can learn that Cap’n focuses on low resolution, dithered, and animated compositions that repurpose dead machines as tools for creation. The outputs are dedicated to Tezos and Ethereum, “the only coordinates that don’t drift.” Learn more about the art and the artist at their website here.

For this spotlight I’ve selected “Memory C:\”, a depiction of an old television, with antennas and a black and white picture. Depicted as minimalist pixel art, with a subtle animation, this channel is displaying what appears to be a desert with blazing sun, but this sandbox is made of pixelated frequencies, retro waves without color, permanently moving left to right.

Just as this TV would be from the time before recording and rewinding live television, we cannot go back in time. The nostalgic moments depicted through memory, and artistry, will have to do. Part of the Sovereign collection, upon writing, this 1/1 artwork is available to collect directly from the artist on objkt, here.

“PARAGUAY TRIP® — by Pamilo Ceirone” Pamilo Ceirone: Experimental Artist

Pamilo Ceirone is an Argentinian artist who has been minting on Tezos since August 2021, making him an OG of the ecosystem with a style that has grown increasingly recognizable over time. Color and curiosity are presented in his mixtapes, illustrations, and animations alike. He describes his practice as navigating different spatial sensations, an autodidactic path that moves through feeling rather than formula. Beyond his solo output, Pamilo has been part of Team Mushy Mushy in the Teztones Artletics Premier League. You can explore more of his world at pampam.ar.

The artwork titled “PARAGUAY TRIP®” was made for a friend who tours the world via bicycle, as a way to thank him for the meaningful time spent together between cycling journeys. The piece itself makes the energy of that story visible. A cartoon cyclist pushing forward at full speed, arms wide open, the word “PARAGUAY” splitting apart across the frame with a comic-book flair. The road curves behind him, and the word “TRIP” is written across a ribbon, perhaps in the moment Pamilo’s friend crosses the finish line.

What is most special about this artwork is knowing there may be stickers of it placed along the road from Argentina to Paraguay, which printed and pocketed the same day the original was minted on Tezos. Collect it on Objkt here.

“Dead inside” — by paulasauruss Paulasauruss: Illustrator

Paulasauruss brings a Graphic Design background with a specialization in Art History to her work as an illustrative artist, which is a combination that gives her visual language a structural grounding. Her illustrations draw from horror movies, medieval imagery, and OCD, pulling the sacred and the profane into the same frame. There is a consistent thread running through all of it, which is a taste for the nonsensical. Things that never feel random, like a carefully curated strangeness. Discover more work by Paulasauruss on her profile here.

For this spotlight I’ve selected “Dead Inside,” a piece rooted in a specific and widely felt moment of frustration. In early March 2024, Binance launched a luxury fragrance called “CRYPTO” as part of an International Women’s Day campaign, framing perfume as a learning incentive and meaningful gesture toward women in crypto. The backlash was immediate and sharp, with women and men alike across the space calling it out as patronizing and performative.

Paulasauruss responded through her art. The piece depicts a hot pink coffin-shaped perfume bottle with a skull embossed on the front. A clear and direct dig at how the stunt made her feel. The description carries its own shovel, listing the fragrance notes as “Eau de putrefaction,” water of organic decay, a quiet reference to what erodes when a person is reduced to how they look or smell. The pink is loud and deliberate, offering thick sarcasm when combined with the description, “In pink, because women can’t resist that color.” With a suggested audible sigh. The coffin shape does the rest. Find “Dead Inside” on objkt, here.

“When I meet you for the first time” — Seendollf Seendollf: Mixed-Media Visual Artist

Seendollf is an Iranian visual artist with a practice that moves between physical painting, photography, and collage. Their signature is a layered approach that fuses their own painted works and photographs with collage-constructed elements, sometimes incorporating AI-generated backgrounds. The result is a style that feels assembled from multiple lived surfaces rather than generated from a single tool or technique. Seendollfnft believes that art carries what language cannot, speaking directly to something in the viewer that exists below conscious thought. Discover more of their work on Tezos, here.

“When I Meet You for the First Time” is a collage-based artwork built from Seendollf‘s own photography of a sunset and butterflies. From a first impression it feels like a message of transformation, the kind we are capable of having within a lifetime, with nature offering its own quiet examples everywhere you look.

The deeper context lives in the inspiration the artist cites. The Ghent Altarpiece, from the 1420s, is considered one of the most significant works in Western art history. The altarpiece is structured around themes of divine revelation and the soul’s encounter with the sacred, or perhaps the sacred version of themselves they are destined to become. Like a caterpillar becoming a butterfly, the image becomes a meditation on the moment of genuine encounter with another person, with something larger, or with a version of yourself not yet known. Collect it on objkt, here.

“ENDLESS CITY 2026” — by Tengushee Tengushee: Audio/Visual Artist

Tengushee is a multi-instrumentalist, multimedia artist, and producer who has been creating across a range of mediums since the 1990s, bringing a depth of practice to Tezos that stretches well beyond any single format. The work operates within a self-constructed mythology called the “Endless Chronicles”, an ongoing digital experience that weaves together music, poetry, visual art, and installation under the broader umbrella of a genre called Faewave.

The cyberpunk sensibility shows up across projects including the Gh0stN3t Records label under which their music release. Most of their Tezos output is music-based, which makes the piece selected for this spotlight a slightly different entry point into their world. Discover more at tengushee.com.

“ENDLESS CITY 2026” is a mixed-media composition depicting a littered beachfront with a futuristic cityscape on the distant horizon. While the foreground is rendered like black and white photography, the city is glitched with electric color waves. What first appears like a sun shining in the top right briefly dims to reveal the craters of the moon, a yin and yang symbology operating behind the main timelapse-like animation, suggesting the passing of time, rapidly.

How Tengushee describes it deepens the image further, framing the city as something that does not rise so much as bleed through, held together by chromatic misalignment and old promises. A place where time de-syncs and broadcasts decay into static. Collect it on Objkt here.

Until Next Month’s ‘ART’icle

Thank you to everyone who keeps nominating artists, those who stopped scrolling, recognized something, and then took the extra step of saying so. This has a compounding effect on the community and its ability to find art they can connect with. Most importantly it has a profound impact on the artists when they can affirm being seen and appreciated.

Nominations for the July ‘ART’icle are open. If there is an artist on Tezos whose work has caught your attention, one way to honor them is to share or comment under one of their posts with #tezARTicle on X or Bluesky. That is all it takes to put an artist in the running, so let’s keep encouraging each other and expanding the appreciation of art on Tezos.

The ‘ART’icle of The Month was originally published in Tezos Commons on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.