# Beeple

> Charleston digital artist Mike Winkelmann, who has posted a new image every day since 2007 and makes NFTs, kinetic sculptures and robotic installations.

- Page: https://www.gondi.xyz/artist/beeple
- Works on GONDI: 3,064
- Collectors: 1,560
- About page: https://www.gondi.xyz/artist/beeple/about

## About

Beeple is the working name of Mike Winkelmann, a digital artist based in Charleston, South Carolina, who studied computer science at Purdue University. His pictures and animations mix pop culture, politics and technology, and much of his recent work satirizes big tech.

On May 1, 2007 he set himself a rule to finish and post a new image every day, a project he calls *Everydays*, after Tom Judd's year of daily drawings. He has kept it going ever since. His first Nifty Gateway drop, the [Genesis collection](https://www.gondi.xyz/collections/beeple-special-edition.md), included the 1/1 [*CROSSROAD*](https://www.gondi.xyz/collections/beeple-special-edition/100010001.md). A December 2020 drop followed with [*THE COMPLETE MF COLLECTION*](https://www.gondi.xyz/collections/beeple-everydays-63c0/100010001.md), one token holding 20 works. In March 2021 Christie's sold *EVERYDAYS: THE FIRST 5000 DAYS*, a collage of his first 5,000 images and the first purely digital work offered by a major auction house. [*HUMAN ONE*](https://www.gondi.xyz/collections/human-one/1.md), a sculpture of four screens around a walking astronaut whose world he keeps updating, went to Christie's that November.

*HUMAN ONE* was later shown at Castello di Rivoli, M+ in Hong Kong and Crystal Bridges. In 2023 Castello di Rivoli took [*FTX BOARD MEETING*](https://www.gondi.xyz/collections/beeple-everydays-v2/54.md) into its collection as a gift from the artist, and Beeple opened Beeple Studios, a studio and gallery in Charleston. The Deji Art Museum in Nanjing opened his retrospective *Tales From a Synthetic Future* in 2024. The Shed and LACMA showed *Diffuse Control*, an AI image sculpture, in 2025. *Regular Animals*, robot dogs wearing lifelike heads of tech founders and artists, printed what they saw at Art Basel Miami Beach in December 2025, then went on to the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin in 2026. Some prints unlock [NFT memories](https://www.gondi.xyz/collections/regular-animals-123468438.md).

## At a glance

- Practice: Digital art, animation and kinetic sculpture
- In museums: Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporanea
- Based in: Charleston, SC
- Platforms: Nifty Gateway
- Education: Purdue University, computer science

## Notable works

- 2021: [EVERYDAYS: THE FIRST 5000 DAYS](https://onlineonly.christies.com/s/beeple-first-5000-days/beeple-b-1981-1/112924), Christie's
- 2021: [HUMAN ONE](https://www.gondi.xyz/collections/human-one/1.md), Christie's
- 2020: [CROSSROAD](https://www.gondi.xyz/collections/beeple-special-edition/100010001.md), Nifty Gateway
- 2021: [OCEAN FRONT](https://www.coindesk.com/business/2021/03/23/trons-justin-sun-wins-6m-beeple-in-green-nft-auction), Nifty Gateway
- 2020: [POLITICS IS BULLSHIT](https://www.gondi.xyz/collections/beeple-special-edition/100030002.md), Nifty Gateway

## In museum collections

- 2023: [FTX BOARD MEETING, DAY #5676 11.13.2022, a gift from the artist](https://www.gondi.xyz/collections/beeple-everydays-v2/54.md), Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli (Turin), Italy

## Top sales

- 2021: [EVERYDAYS: THE FIRST 5000 DAYS](https://onlineonly.christies.com/s/beeple-first-5000-days/beeple-b-1981-1/112924), Christie's online, $69,346,250
- 2021: [HUMAN ONE](https://www.gondi.xyz/collections/human-one/1.md), Christie's New York, $28,985,000
- 2021: [CROSSROAD (resale)](https://www.gondi.xyz/collections/beeple-special-edition/100010001.md), $6.6M
- 2021: [OCEAN FRONT](https://www.coindesk.com/business/2021/03/23/trons-justin-sun-wins-6m-beeple-in-green-nft-auction), CarbonDrop charity auction, $6M
- 2020: [THE COMPLETE MF COLLECTION](https://www.gondi.xyz/collections/beeple-everydays-63c0/100010001.md), $777,777
- 2021: [POLITICS IS BULLSHIT, edition 2/100](https://www.gondi.xyz/collections/beeple-special-edition/100030002.md), $609K

## Exhibitions

- 2026: [Regular Animals, an installation by Beeple, for Gallery Weekend Berlin](https://www.smb.museum/en/press/press-releases/detail/neue-nationalgalerie-beeple-regular-animals-294-1052026-1/), Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin
- 2026: [Solo show: BEEPLE: / INFINITE_LOOP, a mid-career survey](https://nodefoundation.com/program/infinite-loop), NODE, Palo Alto, CA
- 2025: [Regular Animals, in the Zero 10 section](https://decrypt.co/351080/beeple-made-robot-dogs-with-musk-zuckerberg-and-warhol-heads-that-poop-nfts), Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami Beach
- 2025-2026: [Diffuse Control by Beeple](https://www.lacma.org/art/exhibition/diffuse-control-beeple), Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Los Angeles, CA
- 2025-2026: [Transient Bloom](https://toledomuseum.org/exhibitions/transient-bloom), Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH
- 2025: [Diffuse Control by Beeple](https://at.theshed.org/program/480-diffuse-control-by-beeple), The Shed, New York
- 2024-2025: [Three kinetic sculptures by Beeple, Tree of Knowledge among them](https://www.postandcourier.com/charleston_scene/arts/beeple-gibbes-museum-exhibit-charleston-sc-interactive/article_ad319c86-d35c-11ef-a3c8-7f3f149fb65a.html), Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, SC
- 2024: [Solo show: Beeple: Tales From a Synthetic Future](https://www.dejiart.com/en/exhibition/beeple-laizirenzaoweilaidegushi/), Deji Art Museum, Nanjing, China
- 2023-2024: [Beeple: HUMAN ONE](https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2023/07/27/beeple-sculpture-human-one-crystal-bridges-museum), Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR
- 2022-2023: [Beeple: HUMAN ONE, its Asia premiere](https://mplus.org.hk/en/exhibitions/human-one-beeple/), M+, Hong Kong
- 2022: [HUMAN ONE in Espressioni con frazioni, its international museum premiere](https://www.castellodirivoli.org/en/comunicato/espressioni-con-frazioni/), Castello di Rivoli, Rivoli (Turin), Italy
- 2022: [Solo show: Uncertain Future](https://news.artnet.com/art-world/beeple-jack-hanley-new-york-2080308), Jack Hanley Gallery, New York

## Recognition

- 2022: [Best Established NFT Artist, NFT Awards](https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2022/06/22/nft-nyc-awards-beeple-bored-apes-takashi-murakami), NFT.NYC, New York

## Collaborations

- 2023: [GIFT GOAT, an Everyday of Gary Vaynerchuk airdropped to VeeFriends Gift Goat holders and Beeple collectors](https://www.gondi.xyz/collections/giftgoat-beeple.md), VeeFriends
- 2021: [TIME: The Future of Business](https://www.gondi.xyz/collections/superrare/24644.md), TIME
- 2019: [Everydays on Louis Vuitton's Spring/Summer 2019 ready-to-wear collection](https://www.schoolofmotion.com/blog/beeple-louis-vuitton), Louis Vuitton

## Press & resources

- 2026: [Beeple brings his robot dog-men meet Mies van der Rohe in Berlin](https://www.domusweb.it/en/news/2026/03/19/beeple-regular-animals-berlin-neue-nationalgalerie-mies.html), Domus
- 2025: [Beeple Made Robot Dogs With Musk, Zuckerberg, and Warhol Heads That Poop NFTs](https://decrypt.co/351080/beeple-made-robot-dogs-with-musk-zuckerberg-and-warhol-heads-that-poop-nfts), Decrypt
- 2023: [$29m Beeple sculpture goes on display at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art](https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2023/07/27/beeple-sculpture-human-one-crystal-bridges-museum), The Art Newspaper
- 2022: [beeple's kinetic sculpture at M+ museum depicts an astronaut on an endless metaverse tour](https://www.designboom.com/art/beeple-kinetic-sculpture-m-plus-museum-astronaut-endless-metaverse-tour-11-23-2022/), designboom
- 2021: [Tron's Justin Sun Wins $6M Beeple in 'Green' NFT Auction](https://www.coindesk.com/business/2021/03/23/trons-justin-sun-wins-6m-beeple-in-green-nft-auction), CoinDesk
- 2021: [Legendary NFT Artwork Gets Resold for $6.6 Million](https://decrypt.co/59405/legendary-nft-artwork-gets-resold-for-6-6-million), Decrypt
- 2020: [Investor Bids $777,777 on Ethereum NFT With 1 Second Left](https://decrypt.co/51394/savage-investor-bids-777777-on-nft-with-just-1-second-left), Decrypt

## Milestones

- 2007: [Starts Everydays, posting a new image every day](https://onlineonly.christies.com/s/beeple-first-5000-days/overview/2020)
- 2020: [First NFT drop on Nifty Gateway](https://decrypt.co/59405/legendary-nft-artwork-gets-resold-for-6-6-million), Nifty Gateway
- 2021: [EVERYDAYS: THE FIRST 5000 DAYS becomes the first purely digital work offered by a major auction house](https://onlineonly.christies.com/s/beeple-first-5000-days/overview/2020), Christie's
- 2023: [Opens Beeple Studios, a 50,000 square foot studio and gallery in Charleston](https://charlestoncitypaper.com/2023/03/12/photo-essay-charleston-artist-beeple-opens-daniel-island-art-gallery/)
- 2023: [First work in a museum collection: FTX BOARD MEETING at Castello di Rivoli](https://www.art-critique.com/en/2023/07/ftx-board-meeting-beeples-first-museum-acquisition/), Castello di Rivoli

## Links

- [beeple-crap.com](https://www.beeple-crap.com)
- [X](https://x.com/beeple)
- [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/beeple_crap/)
- [youtube.com](https://www.youtube.com/beeple)
- [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Winkelmann)
- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q82953425)

Data from GONDI (https://www.gondi.xyz), Oct 28, 2026.