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New Zealand — 2021–2026

Mint
Face

As we live on the edge of believability,
MintFace conjures placeholders
to guide our way.

Painting · AI · Generative · Photography · Illustration · Sculpture
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PixelArcade 16-bit composition — The Line Gallery
PixelArcade — The Line
Biography

MintFace is a cryptoartist and founder of The Line... a physical and digital home for tokenized art in New Zealand. Formed at the intersection of grief, fatherhood, and the arrival of the blockchain as a new kind of permanence, the name carries a single insistence: that connection is both subject and method.

The practice emerged in 2021 from the edge of the world, during a period of stillness that made the distance between people feel both more painful and more worth recording. What began as an attempt to leave a trail... coordinates, timestamps, inscriptions... became something larger: a decade-long corridor that the work keeps building.

MintFace refuses a signature look. The output moves between painting, photography, AI collaboration, and generative editions... not as versatility, but as insistence that no single medium is large enough to hold what needs saying.

Practice
Multi-disciplinary — Painting, Photography, Generative Art, AI, Illustration
Active Since
2021
Exhibitions
NFT NYC 2024, The Line Gallery, New Zealand
Collections Held
Spain, Belgium, Switzerland, Germany, Australia, United States
Blockchain
Ethereum (ERC-721 / ERC-1155), Bitcoin Ordinals

Collections
2021–2026

19 Collections · 500+ Works
2026
01 / 19

Pixel
Arcade

Acrylic on Panel / Pixel / Tokenized

Arcade games reduced to their most essential form: pixels. Each work winnows a game down to its canonical on-screen palette, arranged into a fixed grid and hand-painted... shifting context from childhood game to fine artwork. A study in pixels across three eras: 8-bit, 16-bit and 32-bit.

The reduction is a debt to Mondrian, who pulled nature down to lines and primary squares. The third work in a lineage that runs through Seize and Share and reached master-work scale with FROGDNA — extended here across 64 games and three generations of arcade history.

64 × 1/1
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8-bitGalaga · Eight-Bit Study No. 11
11 · Galaga
16-bitWonder Boy · Sixteen-Bit Composition XV
32 · Wonder Boy
16-bitPaperboy · Sixteen-Bit Composition II
19 · Paperboy
32-bitSonic Adventure · Thirty-Two-Bit Tableau XVII
62 · Sonic Adventure
Palettes sampled from canonical arcade hardware · 1981–1998
2025
02 / 19

Artificial
Flowers

Painting / AI / Augmented Reality

Hand-painted flowers worked to completion, then offered to AI as source material. The machine returns its vision displayed on the physical panels via augmented reality. It asks the only question that matters: who is the student, and who is the master?

Each physical painting becomes a trigger for the tokenized work to play. Collectors standing before the canvas experience both visions simultaneously, comparing and contrasting the two.

22 × 1/1
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Daffodil Season
Daffodil Season
Banana Zone
Banana Zone
Flax Feeding Season
Flax Feeding
Re: Growth
Re: Growth
Solar Reaching
Solar Reaching
Artificial Flowers
Garden Study
2025
03 / 19

Patrimora

Generative Art — On-chain

Inspired by 'senbazuru', the Japanese tradition of folding 1,000 origami cranes. Named for a word MintFace coined: 'patrimora'; a legacy delayed in its realization. A memorial to a son growing up without a father, through the motif of cranes.

Cranes are thought to represent long life. The name means an inheritance delayed by history, culture, or generation...something owed, not yet received.

1/1 + 469 editions
patrimora.com Mint
Patrimora — full collection
Traits: Twombly · Rothko · Pollock · Mintface · Tricksta · Firstlady
2025
04 / 19

FROGDNA

Painting — FakeRare Master Work

The master work, and the largest FakeRare painting in the world at 1.65m tall. Pepe sampled from 88 cards across Series 0, 1 and 2, sequenced into 88 pixels by a greedy AI algorithm, then colour-matched and hand-painted. Each hex code translated into a painterly recipe, re-grounding the pixel in the material world.

In conversation with Gerhard Richter's Color Charts (1966): where Richter reorders an industrial reality, FROGDNA reorders our digital preoccupation. Our digital addiction, plainly seen inhabiting a physical reality. Exhibited at The Line, New Zealand. Painting acquired by NZ collector duo.

1/1 + 88 editions
frogdna.com Dispenser — 0.000888 BTC OpenSea — 0.0369 ETH
FROGDNA by MintFace — 88-pixel hand-painted FakeRare master work, 1.65m tall
88 pixels · sampled from FakeRare Series 0–2 · 1.65m tall
2024
05 / 19

Two
Burdens

Oil on Canvas — 36 works

The inner and outer burdens we all carry. The surface is worked over and over... adding, subtracting, adding, subtracting... until an intensity presents itself. Influenced by Richter's later squeegee works, but the mindset here is active, not indifferent.

Acquired by collectors in Spain, Belgium, Switzerland, Australia and the USA. Exhibited at NFT NYC 2024 and The Line, New Zealand.

36 × 1/1
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Beyond the Meadow
Beyond the Meadow
Cascade
Cascade
Laceration
Laceration
Salvation
Salvation
The Grotto
The Grotto
Untitled III
Untitled III
2023
06 / 19

Recursive
Mind

Illustration — Photoshop — Bitcoin Ordinals

Endless thought patterns looping to infinity. Pixels pushed until they break. What remains becomes the art — a study in deletion, removal, and sitting with what is left after the pressure finally subsides.

No AI. All hand-drawn in Photoshop since age 13. Inscribed as Ordinals on Bitcoin...an expensive act that binds their longevity to Bitcoin's own.

13 × 1/1
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The Crucible
The Crucible
Lost in Sound
Lost in Sound
Dark Summer
Dark Summer
Day at the Park
Day at the Park
2023
07 / 19

Geodetic
World

AI — 95 works

AI-generated from the outline of the Geodetic sculpture. The collection shifts the location of the Geodetic from a physical place in New Zealand to an imprint on a series of places travelled or meaningful to the artist.

Distance separates, yet presence remains. Each work carries the sculpture's geodetic line into a new terrain — Paris, Everest, the Pacific — a marker relocated across the world.

95 × 1/1
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Geodetic Paris
Paris
Geodetic Hong Kong
Hong Kong
Geodetic Ibiza
Ibiza
Geodetic Everest
Everest
Geodetic Auckland
Auckland
Geodetic Pacific
Pacific
Minted October 2023 · Ethereum · 0xE16c…D396
2022
08 / 19

Geodetica

AI — Midjourney — 100 works

Geodetica documents the shortest visual path between human and machine. The geodetic line of creative intent. Each of 100 unique works traces a direct route from imagination to output, without the weight of physical media to negotiate.

Made entirely in Midjourney at a time when the technology was new and the conversation between artist and algorithm felt genuinely uncharted. Sold out.

100 × 1/1 Sold Out
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Strength at its Core
Strength at its Core
Look Around You
Look Around You
A Son Points Something Out
A Son Points Out
Face to Face with a Geodetic Moment
Face to Face
Goodnight Moon
Goodnight Moon
Geodetica
2022
09 / 19

Hidden
Landscapes

AI — ArtBreeder — 18 works

Early AI works, hand-painted by MintFace using a software tool called ArtBreeder. The digital brush touched the canvas and the 'ink' was directed by prompts initiated by the artist.

No prompt would display whole — each digital brush stroke controlled by the artist, the intent controlled by the prompt, but the ultimate imagery chosen by the large language model. Minted on the Geodetic Illusions contract.

18 × 1/1
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Outside Forces #1 — Hidden Landscapes #87
Outside Forces
Marooned (shiprekt) #3 — Hidden Landscapes #85
Marooned
Uninvited Guest #15 — Hidden Landscapes #72
Uninvited Guest
Minted April 2022 · Collected by MintEstate · Claire Silver
2022
10 / 19

Roads
& Rivers

Photography — Aerial — North Island, NZ

Roads are for travelling. Rivers go with the flow. When the two overlap, you get to decide which way you go. MintFace drove the North Island of New Zealand...post-pandemic, little traffic, the freedom of open roads...photographing bridges.

Seven of the 36 bridges were washed away in Cyclone Gabrielle, February 2023. The collection sparked conversations about memory, crossing, where people were going and why it mattered. Featured in the NZ Herald.

36 × 1/1 Sold Out
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Bridge #2
Bridge #2
Bridge #5
Bridge #5
Bridge #9
Bridge #9
Bridge #22
Bridge #22
2021
11 / 19

Geodetic
Moments

Photography — Pukekura Hill, Taradale

A study of one location, one hill, walked at different times of day and night throughout 2021. Each photograph is accompanied by metadata including direction faced, time of day, notable objects... recorded permanently on the blockchain.

A record of physical presence, left for a son to find. If he finds the geodetic marker on Pukekura Hill, he can probably find me.

100 × 1/1 Sold Out
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Geodetic Moments #1
#1
Geodetic Moments #23
#23
Geodetic Moments #77
#77
Geodetic Moments #84
#84
Geodetic Moments #87
#87
Geodetic Moments #96
#96
2025
12 / 19

Geodetic
Home

Paint on Timber Sculpture — Cultural Object

A geodetic sculpture exhibited at the opening of The Line Gallery, May 2025. Visitors were invited to mark-make directly on its surface — signatures, drawings, names accumulated over weeks. The structure invited people to pause around it, as one does at a New Zealand summit marker.

In a time where algorithms divide, the geodetic sculpture brought people together on a single surface, and reminded us how to speak in person again.

15 editions Sold Out
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Geodetic Home — The Line Gallery 2025
Signed by: frens · family · mayor hopefuls · kids after school
officer of court · tattoo artist · gang affiliates · a chef
tourists · farmers · security officers · businesspeople · artists
Current Exhibition

PixelArcade — The Line

The Line Gallery · New Zealand
318 · 2026
PixelArcade 16-bit composition at The Line Gallery
Main Gallery PixelArcade · the pixels
PixelArcade arcade screen and pixel panels, Main Gallery
PixelArcade pixel panels installed, Main Gallery
16-bit composition with palette label, Main Gallery
Stock Room Paintings · the canvases
Flower paintings, Stock Room
Abstract paintings, Stock Room
PixelArcade at The Line, 318 · Hastings, New Zealand · 2026 — pixels in the Main Gallery, paintings in the Stock Room
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Collector Terrain

The People
Who Hodl

409 patrons · 8 collections · 5 years
409
Collectors
112
Hold Multiple Collections
8
Collections
2021
First Collector
Collection depth — holders per series
Geodetic Moments
69
Editions
159
Geodetica
98
Roads & Rivers
83
Patrimora
38
Two Burdens
14
Artificial Flowers
4
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Provenance
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All artworks are tokenized. Tokens create transferrable ownership rights — without the need for a gallery.

Collection Year Editions Chain Contract
PixelArcade
Acrylic / Pixel / Tokenized
 2026 64 × 1/1 Ethereum · ERC-721 0x97536e…ba30e8
Artificial Flowers
Neural Painting / AR
 2025 21 × 1/1 Ethereum · ERC-721 0xd64ac5…be90d
FROGDNA
Painting
 2025 1 work · 88 editions Bitcoin · Ordinals FROGDNA
Patrimora
Generative Art
 2025 1/1 + 469 editions Ethereum · ERC-721 0xEabffd…502d8
ID Please
Illustration
 2025 1/1 + 328 editions Ethereum · ERC-721 0x33fd42…7af1
Recursive Mind
Illustration
 2023–25 13 × 1/1 Bitcoin · Ordinals 146688a…b95i0
Two Burdens
Painting
 2024 36 × 1/1 Ethereum · ERC-721 0xe1d1f9…ed09
Geodetic World
Pure AI
 2023 95 × 1/1 Ethereum · ERC-721 0xe16c77…d396
Roads & Rivers
Photography
 2022 36 × 1/1 + 162 ed. Ethereum · ERC-721 0x18bd00…ee67
Geodetic On-Chain
Illustration
 2022 5 works · 2×100 ed. Ethereum · ERC-1155 0x7b5ccc…ce4
Geodetica
Pure AI
 2022 100 × 1/1 · Sold Out Ethereum · ERC-721 0xf6f44f…2933
Geodetic Memory
Photography
 2022 1 work · 823 editions Ethereum · ERC-1155 0xa81f80…979c
Geodetic Illusions
Neural Painting
 2022 87 × 1/1 Ethereum · ERC-721 0x38bae1…6045
Hidden Landscapes
AI — ArtBreeder
 2022 18 × 1/1 Ethereum · ERC-721 0x38bae1…6045
Geodetic Moments
Photography
 2021 100 × 1/1 · Sold Out Ethereum · ERC-1155 0x495f94…b7b5e
1/1s on Foundation
Photography
 2021 7 × 1/1 Ethereum · ERC-721 Foundation
Geodetic Home
Sculpture
 2025 1 work · 15 ed. · Sold Out Ethereum · ERC-1155 0x7b5ccc…ce4
City vs Nature
Photography — Genesis
 2021 1 work · 5 editions Ethereum · ERC-1155 Rarible
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