# Snowfro

> Houston artist who founded Art Blocks in 2020 with Chromie Squiggle, a 10,000-piece generative series with pieces held by MoMA and LACMA.

- Page: https://www.gondi.xyz/artist/snowfro
- Works on GONDI: 22,117
- Collectors: 9,417
- About page: https://www.gondi.xyz/artist/snowfro/about

## About

Snowfro is the artist name of Erick Calderon, who was born in Mexico City and lives and works in Houston. He spent 18 years in a ceramic tile company he started with his father, and his art moved through video projection, 3D printing, sculpture and code. His brother told him about Bitcoin in 2013, and once CryptoPunks appeared in 2017, he told Decrypt, "it all clicked."

In November 2020 he launched Art Blocks, a platform for generative art that is created on Ethereum at the moment a collector mints it. Its first release, Project #0, was his own [*Chromie Squiggle*](https://www.gondi.xyz/collections/chromie-squiggle-by-snowfro.md), capped at 10,000 tokens. Venus Over Manhattan gave him his first solo gallery show, *Snowfro: Chromie Squiggles*, in New York in February 2022. Sotheby's sold Squiggle #1780 in 2023. The last Squiggle, #9999, went to LACMA as his gift, and MoMA added a set of eight in 2025. ZKM Karlsruhe and ICA Miami also hold his work.

[*Bookends (Study)*](https://www.gondi.xyz/collections/bookends-study-by-snowfro.md), an edition of 50 for PROOF's Grails in August 2022, pairs handmade ceramic bowls with a generative composition. In [*100 Untitled Spaces*](https://www.gondi.xyz/collections/100-untitled-spaces-by-snowfro.md), minted in person with Bright Moments in Mexico City that November, each output is a spare, code-built interior holding a single canvas. [*///*](https://www.gondi.xyz/collections/by-snowfro.md) (2023), released with AOI, draws on Formula One racing. *heart + craft* (2023), made with Jordan Lyall, pairs each digital output with a 3D heart that owners can build. Every token of [*LIFT (a self portrait)*](https://www.gondi.xyz/collections/lift-a-self-portrait-by-snowfro.md) (2025) comes with a playable Game Boy Advance game. [*send/receive*](https://www.gondi.xyz/collections/send-receive-by-snowfro.md), one of the three projects that closed Art Blocks' AB500 series in December 2025, links all its tokens, so each collector's choice to send or receive changes what the others show. ZKM holds send/receive #8506.

## At a glance

- Practice: Generative onchain art
- In museums: MoMA, LACMA, ZKM, ICA Miami
- Based in: Houston, TX
- Active since: 2020
- Platforms: Art Blocks, Bright Moments, PROOF

## Notable works

- 2020: [Chromie Squiggle](https://www.gondi.xyz/collections/chromie-squiggle-by-snowfro.md), Art Blocks
- 2025: [LIFT (a self portrait)](https://www.gondi.xyz/collections/lift-a-self-portrait-by-snowfro.md), Glitch Gallery
- 2025: [send/receive](https://www.gondi.xyz/collections/send-receive-by-snowfro.md), Art Blocks
- 2022: [100 Untitled Spaces](https://www.gondi.xyz/collections/100-untitled-spaces-by-snowfro.md), Bright Moments

## In museum collections

- 2025: [8 Chromie Squiggles](https://www.gondi.xyz/collections/chromie-squiggle-by-snowfro/292.md), Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, NY
- 2024: [Chromie Squiggle #9999, the last of the 10,000, a gift of the artist](https://www.gondi.xyz/collections/chromie-squiggle-by-snowfro/9999.md), Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Los Angeles, CA
- [Chromie Squiggle #100, LIFT (a self portrait) #147 and send/receive #8506](https://www.gondi.xyz/collections/chromie-squiggle-by-snowfro/100.md), ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany
- 2024: [A Chromie Squiggle, given by SquiggleDAO](https://icamiami.org/artist/erick-calderon-snowfro/), Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami (ICA Miami), Miami, FL

## Top sales

- 2021: [Chromie Squiggle #4697](https://www.gondi.xyz/collections/chromie-squiggle-by-snowfro/4697.md), 945 ETH ($2.8M)
- 2021: [Chromie Squiggle #7583](https://www.gondi.xyz/collections/chromie-squiggle-by-snowfro/7583.md), 922.5 ETH ($2.76M)
- 2021: [Chromie Squiggle #3784](https://www.gondi.xyz/collections/chromie-squiggle-by-snowfro/3784.md), 750 ETH ($2.44M)
- 2021: [Chromie Squiggle #6339](https://www.gondi.xyz/collections/chromie-squiggle-by-snowfro/6339.md), 485 ETH ($1.67M)
- 2021: [Chromie Squiggle #2855](https://www.gondi.xyz/collections/chromie-squiggle-by-snowfro/2855.md), 420 ETH ($1.26M)
- 2021: [Chromie Squiggle #4008](https://www.gondi.xyz/collections/chromie-squiggle-by-snowfro/4008.md), 250 ETH ($785.5K)

## Exhibitions

- 2026: [Spotlight: Erick Calderon (Snowfro), works answering Carlos Cruz-Diez's color research](https://islaa.org/exhibitions/spotlight-erick-calderon/), Institute for Studies on Latin American Art (ISLAA), New York, NY
- 2024-2025: [Code & Canvas: Defining Digital Art in the Age of Blockchain](https://kcstudio.org/brave-new-world-museum-of-art-light/), Museum of Art + Light, Manhattan, KS
- 2022: [Chromie Squiggles and Bookends (Study), shown by Venus Over Manhattan](https://www.newartdealers.org/fairs/nada-miami-2022/artworks/8146), NADA Miami, Miami, FL
- 2022: [100 Untitled Spaces, shown and minted in person](https://www.brightmoments.io/quarterly/snowfro), Bright Moments, Mexico City, Mexico
- 2022: [Solo show: Snowfro: Chromie Squiggles](https://www.venusovermanhattan.com/exhibitions/snowfro-chromie-squiggles), Venus Over Manhattan, New York, NY

## Recognition

- 2022: [Innovators list](https://news.artnet.com/market/innovators-interview-erick-calderon-2221756), Artnet News
- 2021: [NFTy 50 (#45)](https://fortune.com/ranking/nfty-50/2021/erick-calderon/), Fortune

## Collaborations

- 2025: [LIFT (a self portrait), a series whose tokens each carry a playable Game Boy Advance game](https://www.gondi.xyz/collections/lift-a-self-portrait-by-snowfro.md), Glitch Gallery
- 2023: [///, a 2,000-piece series on Formula One racing, in the Velocity Series of Oracle Red Bull Racing and Bybit](https://www.gondi.xyz/collections/by-snowfro.md), AOI
- 2023: [heart + craft, a digital and physical generative collection](https://decrypt.co/152604/from-art-blocks-to-block-art-snowfro-gets-physical-with-heart-craft), Jordan Lyall
- 2022: [Bookends (Study), an edition of 50 in the Grails collection](https://www.gondi.xyz/collections/bookends-study-by-snowfro.md), PROOF
- 2022: [Chromie Squiggle Video Prints for his first solo show](https://www.venusovermanhattan.com/exhibitions/snowfro-chromie-squiggles), Infinite Objects

## Press & resources

- 2025: [Digital Art Acquisitions in 2025](https://www.rightclicksave.com/article/digital-art-acquisitions-in-2025-moma-whitney-centre-pompidou), Right Click Save
- 2025: [The Art of the Game](https://www.rightclicksave.com/article/the-art-of-the-game-snowfro-mitchell-f-chan-interview-alex-estorick), Right Click Save
- 2024: [How Art Blocks Founder Erick Calderon Approached Printing 'Chromie Squiggle'](https://decrypt.co/212814/how-art-blocks-founder-erick-calderon-approached-printing-chromie-squiggle), Decrypt
- 2023: [From Art Blocks to Block Art: Snowfro Gets Physical With 'Heart + Craft'](https://decrypt.co/152604/from-art-blocks-to-block-art-snowfro-gets-physical-with-heart-craft), Decrypt
- 2023: [For the Love of Squiggles](https://www.rightclicksave.com/article/for-the-love-of-chromie-squiggles-snowfro), Right Click Save
- 2022: [From Ceramic Tiles to Generative NFTs: Art Blocks Founder's Origin Story](https://decrypt.co/106659/from-ceramic-tiles-to-generative-nfts-art-blocks-founders-origin-story), Decrypt

## Milestones

- 2020: [Launches Art Blocks with Chromie Squiggle as Project #0](https://www.gondi.xyz/collections/chromie-squiggle-by-snowfro.md), Art Blocks
- 2022: [Releases Bookends (Study), his first project after Chromie Squiggle](https://www.newartdealers.org/fairs/nada-miami-2022/artworks/8146), PROOF
- 2024: [Chromie Squiggle reaches 10,000 with #9999, which he gives to LACMA](https://collections.lacma.org/object/278760), LACMA
- 2025: [send/receive launches as one of the final three AB500 projects](https://www.gondi.xyz/collections/send-receive-by-snowfro.md), Art Blocks

## Links

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- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q112821876)

Data from GONDI (https://www.gondi.xyz), Nov 6, 2026.