# Sam Spratt

> Former album-cover illustrator whose LUCI series of digital paintings and psalms turns collectors into co-authors through Skulls, Players and Masks.

- Page: https://www.gondi.xyz/artist/sam-spratt
- Works on GONDI: 930
- Collectors: 426
- About page: https://www.gondi.xyz/artist/sam-spratt/about

## About

Sam Spratt is a digital painter based in New York. His ongoing project, *LUCI*, sets paintings beside short written psalms, and ten paintings exist so far. Its name refers to the early human ancestor found in Afar, Ethiopia. The Toledo Museum of Art describes the series as a "refracted self-portrait of the artist." Collectors' written words are recorded onchain and built into the work.

Spratt trained in oil painting and illustration at the Savannah College of Art and Design, finishing in 2010. That year he began illustrating for Gizmodo and painted a three-part December cover for *Game Informer*. Over the next decade he painted album covers for Childish Gambino, Janelle Monáe, Logic and Kid Cudi. He also made covers for Marvel, Netflix and Rolling Stone, and paintings for Rockstar Games' *Red Dead Redemption 2*.

*LUCI* began in October 2021 with three paintings auctioned on SuperRare. Spratt thanked every bidder with a skull artwork, and the holders of the 50 [*Skulls of Luci*](https://www.gondi.xyz/collections/skulls-of-luci.md) later became the Council of Luci. Its members vote on the winners when collectors compete in later chapters. Christie's sold [*VII. Wormfood*](https://www.gondi.xyz/collections/vii-wormfood/1.md) in a 2022 online auction. For [*IX. The Monument Game*](https://www.gondi.xyz/collections/sam-spratt-1-1/3.md) (2023) on Nifty Gateway, 256 [Players](https://www.gondi.xyz/collections/sam-spratt-luci-chapter-5-the-monument-game.md) wrote observations onto the painting, and the Council picked three winners. [*X. Masquerade*](https://www.gondi.xyz/collections/sam-spratt-1-1/4.md) (2025) arrived with 613 [*Masks of Luci*](https://www.gondi.xyz/collections/sam-spratt-masks-of-luci.md). Spratt made both by combining handwork with a generative AI engine trained on his own paintings.

In 2024, 1OF1 presented *The Monument Game*, his first solo exhibition, in Venice during the 60th Biennale. In 2025 the Toledo Museum of Art showed *Masquerade* and the Masks in its group show *Infinite Images: The Art of Algorithms*. He is now working on the seventh chapter of *LUCI*.

## At a glance

- Practice: Digital painting
- Based in: New York, NY
- Active since: 2010
- Platforms: SuperRare, Nifty Gateway
- Education: Savannah College of Art and Design, BFA in Illustration

## Notable works

- 2022: [Skulls of Luci](https://www.gondi.xyz/collections/skulls-of-luci.md)
- 2022: [VII. Wormfood](https://www.gondi.xyz/collections/vii-wormfood/1.md), Christie's
- 2025: [X. Masquerade](https://www.gondi.xyz/collections/sam-spratt-1-1/4.md)
- 2023: [IX. The Monument Game](https://www.gondi.xyz/collections/sam-spratt-1-1/3.md), Nifty Gateway
- 2021: [I. Birth of Luci](https://www.gondi.xyz/collections/superrare/29436.md), SuperRare

## Top sales

- 2025: [X. Masquerade](https://www.gondi.xyz/collections/sam-spratt-1-1/4.md), $3M
- 2023: [IX. The Monument Game](https://www.gondi.xyz/collections/sam-spratt-1-1/3.md), 420.69 ETH ($698,000)
- 2025: [Ashen As Adam (Skulls of Luci)](https://www.gondi.xyz/collections/skulls-of-luci/43.md), GONDI, 410,000 USDC ($410,000)
- 2026: [Simplified Encryption (Skulls of Luci)](https://www.gondi.xyz/collections/skulls-of-luci/16.md), GONDI, 400,000 USDC ($400,000)
- 2026: [Foreshadow (Skulls of Luci)](https://www.gondi.xyz/collections/skulls-of-luci/2.md), GONDI, 166 ETH ($386,642)
- 2026: [Transferred Violence (Skulls of Luci)](https://www.gondi.xyz/collections/skulls-of-luci/13.md), GONDI, 350,000 USDC ($350,000)

## Exhibitions

- 2025: [Infinite Images: The Art of Algorithms](https://infiniteimages.toledomuseum.org/artist/sam-spratt), Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH
- 2024: [Solo show: The Monument Game, presented by 1OF1 during the 60th Venice Biennale](https://samspratt.com/exhibitions/), Docks Cantieri Cucchini, Venice, Italy

## Collaborations

- 2020: [Man on the Moon III: The Chosen album cover](https://www.complex.com/style/a/tracewilliamcowen/kid-cudi-man-on-the-moon-iii-cover-art-interview), Kid Cudi
- 2014: [Under Pressure album artwork](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Under_Pressure_(album)), Logic
- 2013: [The Electric Lady cover paintings](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Electric_Lady), Janelle Monáe
- 2012: [Royalty mixtape cover and the American Royalty series](https://laughingsquid.com/sam-spratt-american-royalty-childish-gambino/), Childish Gambino
- 2010: [December 2010 three-part cover](https://gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2010/11/05/december-cover-revealed), Game Informer
- 2010: [Contributing illustrator](https://www.niemanlab.org/2011/01/gizmodo-taps-illustrators-to-give-stories-more-punch-pop-pow/), Gizmodo (Gawker Media)
- [Paintings for Red Dead Redemption 2](https://samspratt.com/biography/), Rockstar Games
- [Covers for Marvel, Netflix and Rolling Stone](https://samspratt.com/biography/)

## Press & resources

- 2025: [Infinite Images | The Art of Algorithms](https://www.rightclicksave.com/article/infinite-images-the-art-of-algorithms-toledo-museum-of-art-generative-art), Right Click Save
- 2025: [NFT Collector Buys Digital Art for $3M, Largest Sale in 3 Years](https://www.coindesk.com/business/2025/02/18/nft-collector-buys-digital-art-for-usd3m-largest-sale-in-3-years), CoinDesk
- 2024: [In Venice, 1OF1 and Collector Ryan Zurrer Introduce Web3 Phenom Sam Spratt to the Art World](https://www.artnews.com/art-news/artists/venice-biennale-sam-spratt-art-exhibition-monument-game-nfts-1234703518/), ARTnews
- 2023: [Inside Sam Spratt's Cult of Luci and The Monument Game](https://nftnow.com/features/inside-sam-spratts-cult-of-luci-and-the-monument-game/), nft now
- 2022: [An NFT Sale at Christie's Brought in $1.6 Million, Giving Digital Art Collectors Some Hope in the Wake of the Crypto Crash](https://news.artnet.com/market/christies-nft-sale-1-6-million-2138850), Artnet News
- 2020: [The Story Behind Kid Cudi's 'Man on the Moon III' Cover Art](https://www.complex.com/style/a/tracewilliamcowen/kid-cudi-man-on-the-moon-iii-cover-art-interview), Complex
- 2018: [Illustrator Sam Spratt Breaks Down Every Logic Album Cover and His Creative Process](https://djbooth.net/features/2018-03-09-sam-spratt-interview-covered/), DJBooth
- 2011: [Gizmodo taps illustrators to give stories more punch, pop, pow!](https://www.niemanlab.org/2011/01/gizmodo-taps-illustrators-to-give-stories-more-punch-pop-pow/), Nieman Lab

## Milestones

- 2021: [First NFTs: the first three LUCI paintings auctioned on SuperRare](https://www.artnews.com/art-news/artists/venice-biennale-sam-spratt-art-exhibition-monument-game-nfts-1234703518/), SuperRare
- 2023: [Council of Luci formed from the 50 Skulls of Luci holders](https://nftnow.com/features/inside-sam-spratts-cult-of-luci-and-the-monument-game/)
- 2024: [Panel: When Worlds Collide, with Beeple, at Christie's Art+Tech Summit](https://www.christies.com/en/events/art-tech-summit-new-york-2024/programme), Christie's, New York, NY
- 2024: [Talk: A shifting paradigm, unpacking the rise of digital art](https://www.artbasel.com/stories/a-shifting-paradigm-unpacking-the-rise-of-digital-art?lang=en), Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami Beach, FL
- 2025: [Documentary: Sam Spratt & The People Who Believe, directed by Joey L](https://samspratt.com/exhibitions/), Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH

## Links

- [samspratt.com](https://samspratt.com)
- [X](https://x.com/SamSpratt)
- [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/samspratt)

Data from GONDI (https://www.gondi.xyz), Oct 29, 2026.