# Monica Rizzolli

> Brazilian artist based in Portugal whose code grows invented plants and landscapes, known for Fragments of an Infinite Field on Art Blocks.

- Page: https://www.gondi.xyz/artist/monica-rizzolli
- Works on GONDI: 1,027
- Collectors: 580
- About page: https://www.gondi.xyz/artist/monica-rizzolli/about

## About

Monica Rizzolli is a Brazilian artist who writes software that grows plants and landscapes. She calls the idea digital morphogenesis: rules that imitate how living things form and change. Born in São Carlos, she now lives and works in Portugal.

Her grandfather ran a print shop in São Paulo, and she made woodcuts and lithographs as a teenager before studying art at UNESP. In 2012, as a student at the Kunsthochschule Kassel in Germany, she stopped painting and taught herself to code in Processing. A MAK Schindler Scholarship took her to the MAK Center in Los Angeles, where she showed a self-generating computer simulation in 2015. In Brazil she cofounded the Noite de Processing meetups at Garoa Hacker Clube and drew the typeface *Tomorrow* with Tony de Marco.

[*Fragments of an Infinite Field*](https://www.gondi.xyz/collections/fragments-of-an-infinite-field-by-monica-rizzolli.md) came out on Art Blocks Curated on 13 September 2021 and sold out in under an hour. Each of its 1,024 outputs is a patch of foliage from one invented plant species, and a season sets the colors and the weather: rain in summer, snow in winter, falling petals in autumn, pollen in spring.

LACMA holds [*Fragments of an Infinite Field #972*](https://www.gondi.xyz/collections/fragments-of-an-infinite-field-by-monica-rizzolli/159000972.md), which its collector called *Midnight Dance*, and [*#800*](https://www.gondi.xyz/collections/fragments-of-an-infinite-field-by-monica-rizzolli/159000800.md), along with *Tibouchina mutabilis, death* from her *Tropical Garden* series, all promised gifts of The Cozomo de' Medici Collection. For LACMA and Cactoid Labs she made *A Tour of Hypothetical Waterfalls* (2023), a generative series drawn from Hokusai's waterfall prints in the museum's collection. In 2025 she published the first issue of *Variável*, a magazine on Brazilian digital art and culture that she edits in Portuguese and English.

## At a glance

- Practice: Generative software of plants and landscapes
- In museums: LACMA, LACMA
- Based in: Portugal
- Platforms: Art Blocks, Bright Moments
- Education: Instituto de Artes, UNESP, São Paulo, Kunsthochschule Kassel, Germany

## Notable works

- 2021: [Fragments of an Infinite Field](https://www.gondi.xyz/collections/fragments-of-an-infinite-field-by-monica-rizzolli.md), Art Blocks Curated
- 2021: [Tropical Garden: Tibouchina mutabilis](https://unframed.lacma.org/2023/04/04/remembrance-things-future-conversation-monica-rizzolli-artist-experimenting-blockchain)

## In museum collections

- 2023: [Fragments of an Infinite Field #800 and #972, promised gift of The Cozomo de' Medici Collection](https://www.gondi.xyz/collections/fragments-of-an-infinite-field-by-monica-rizzolli/159000972.md), Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Los Angeles, CA
- 2023: [Tibouchina mutabilis, death (2021), from Tropical Garden, promised gift of The Cozomo de' Medici Collection](https://unframed.lacma.org/2023/04/04/remembrance-things-future-conversation-monica-rizzolli-artist-experimenting-blockchain), Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Los Angeles, CA

## Top sales

- 2021: [Fragments of an Infinite Field #760](https://www.gondi.xyz/collections/fragments-of-an-infinite-field-by-monica-rizzolli/159000760.md), 69 ETH ($226,748)
- 2021: [Fragments of an Infinite Field #972, Midnight Dance](https://www.gondi.xyz/collections/fragments-of-an-infinite-field-by-monica-rizzolli/159000972.md), 33 ETH ($108,445)

## Exhibitions

- 2023: [GEN/GEN: Generative Generations, showing Dance to forgotten noise (2023)](https://gazelliarthouse.com/exhibitions/174-gen-gen-generative-generations-group-show/), Gazelli Art House, London
- 2023: [Tibouchina mutabilis triptych from Tropical Garden on the Stark Bar screens](https://unframed.lacma.org/2023/04/04/remembrance-things-future-conversation-monica-rizzolli-artist-experimenting-blockchain), LACMA, Los Angeles
- 2022: [NFT ART CDMX, with the generative series Underwater](https://www.rightclicksave.com/article/an-interview-with-monica-rizzoli), Bright Moments, Mexico City
- 2022: [Disruption](https://monicarizzolli.io), W1 Curates, London
- 2021: [The Digital, during Art Basel Miami Beach](https://monicarizzolli.io), Miami Beach, FL
- 2015: [Final Projects: Group XL, with (1) FROM Home TO Supermarket, a self-generating computer simulation](https://www.makcenter.org/exhibitions/group-xl), MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles

## Recognition

- 2014: [MAK Schindler Scholarship, MAK Artists- and Architects-in-Residence program](https://www.rightclicksave.com/article/an-interview-with-monica-rizzoli), MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles

## Collaborations

- 2023: [Remembrance of Things Future: A Tour of Hypothetical Waterfalls and Page from an Artificial Plant Script, with Cactoid Labs](https://unframed.lacma.org/2023/04/04/remembrance-things-future-conversation-monica-rizzolli-artist-experimenting-blockchain), LACMA, Los Angeles
- 2019: [Tomorrow, a typeface drawn with Tony de Marco](https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Tomorrow), Google Fonts

## Press & resources

- 2023: [Remembrance of Things Future: A Conversation with Monica Rizzolli, Artist Experimenting on the Blockchain](https://unframed.lacma.org/2023/04/04/remembrance-things-future-conversation-monica-rizzolli-artist-experimenting-blockchain), LACMA Unframed
- 2023: [Monica Rizzolli's pioneering NFT work goes on show at LACMA](https://heni.com/news/article/trending-monica-rizzolli-the-generative-artist-whose-work-has-been-acquired-by-lacma), HENI News
- 2023: [New Acquisition: The Cozomo de' Medici Collection](https://unframed.lacma.org/2023/02/24/new-acquisition-cozomo-de-medici-collection), LACMA Unframed
- 2022: [An Interview with Monica Rizzoli](https://www.rightclicksave.com/article/an-interview-with-monica-rizzoli), Right Click Save
- 2021: [As the NFT Market Explodes Again, Artists Fend Off Old Art-World Power Structures](https://time.com/6106679/nft-art-rise/), TIME
- 2021: [Generative artist nets $5.38 million in latest Art Blocks hit](https://www.theblock.co/post/117605/art-blocks-hit-generative-artist-5-38-million), The Block

## Milestones

- 2012: [Teaches herself to code in Processing as an exchange student at the Kunsthochschule Kassel](https://unframed.lacma.org/2023/04/04/remembrance-things-future-conversation-monica-rizzolli-artist-experimenting-blockchain), Kassel, Germany
- 2016: [Cofounds the Noite de Processing creative coding meetups at Garoa Hacker Clube](https://garoa.net.br/wiki/Noite_de_Processing), São Paulo
- 2021: [Releases Fragments of an Infinite Field on Art Blocks Curated: 1,024 works, sold out in under an hour](https://www.theblock.co/post/117605/art-blocks-hit-generative-artist-5-38-million), Art Blocks
- 2023: [LACMA receives Fragments of an Infinite Field #800 and #972 as promised gifts of The Cozomo de' Medici Collection](https://unframed.lacma.org/2023/02/24/new-acquisition-cozomo-de-medici-collection), LACMA
- 2025: [Publishes Variável No. 1, a bilingual magazine on Brazilian digital art, in 500 numbered copies with different covers](https://monicarizzolli.io), Vermelho Fugidio

## Links

- [monicarizzolli.io](https://monicarizzolli.io)
- [X](https://x.com/MonicaRizzolli)
- [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/monicarizzolli/)
- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q119728504)

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