Sarah Meyohas

Sarah Meyohas was born in 1991 in New York. She earned a B.S. in Finance from the Wharton School and a B.A. in International Relations from the University of Pennsylvania. In 2015, she completed an M.F.A. in Visual Art at Yale University. While still a graduate student, she began working with blockchain technology to examine how value is constructed, how systems encode meaning, and how trust circulates through acts of exchange.

Meyohas’ work investigates how systems shape perception, desire, and economic belief. She uses emerging technologies including the blockchain, artificial intelligence, and augmented reality to explore the boundaries of value and representation. Her practice is grounded in visual structure and conceptual clarity, often combining engineered processes with aesthetic seduction. In 2015, she launched Bitchcoin, a cryptocurrency backed by her own photographs at a fixed rate, marking one of the earliest examples of tokenized art. That same year, she began her photographic series Speculations, staging infinite mirrored reflections to examine how meaning circulates through visual feedback. In 2017, she created Cloud of Petals, a large-scale project involving data collection, analog film, machine learning, and sculpture. Sixteen workers photographed 100,000 rose petals, selecting one per rose they found most beautiful. These choices were pressed, tokenized, and used to train a generative algorithm, turning aesthetic judgment into a dataset that could be extended indefinitely. The project also operated as a performance, staging aesthetic labor to reflect how subjectivity is formalized, extracted, and reproduced through digital systems. Across these and other works, Meyohas engages a wide range of media, from analog film and sculpture to photography and virtual environments, using material shifts to reveal the ways abstraction and value are encoded through form. 

Her solo exhibitions include Cloud of Petals at Red Bull Arts New York, 2017, Generated Petals Interpolation at Wasserman Projects in Detroit, 2018, and Brain Hole at the Ming Contemporary Art Museum in Shanghai, 2019. In 2023, the Centre Pompidou acquired the Cloud of Petals film, a certificate from the original release of Bitchcoin, and two NFTs for its permanent collection. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, Artforum, Vice, and The Atlantic, and she has presented at the New Museum, Jameel Arts Centre, and the Barbican Centre. Her film has screened at Locarno and Slamdance. In 2017, she was named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 list