# Tyler Hobbs

> Austin generative artist who writes algorithms and works with plotters and paint, known for Fidenza on Art Blocks and QQL with Dandelion Mané.

- Page: https://www.gondi.xyz/artist/tyler-hobbs
- Works on GONDI: 1,591
- Collectors: 751
- About page: https://www.gondi.xyz/artist/tyler-hobbs/about

## About

Tyler Hobbs is a visual artist based in Austin, Texas. He studied computer science at the University of Texas at Austin, writes his own generative algorithms and works with plotters and paint. His pieces set strict computational structure against the looser order of the natural world, and his statement asks what separates people from machines.

[*Fidenza*](https://www.gondi.xyz/collections/fidenza-by-tyler-hobbs.md) came out on Art Blocks Curated in June 2021. Its 999 outputs come from one algorithm built on flow fields, a technique he has written about on his site. Late that year, collectors paid for half of [*Incomplete Control*](https://www.gondi.xyz/collections/incomplete-control-by-tyler-hobbs.md)'s 100 works before any had been seen, then minted them in person at Bright Moments in New York. In 2022 he released [*QQL*](https://www.gondi.xyz/collections/qql.md) with the artist Dandelion Mané, named Dandelion Wist in the launch coverage. Pace described it as a way for collectors to become "co-creators" of each work.

Much of the practice leaves the screen. Pace showed *QQL: Analogs*, twelve large paintings based on QQL outputs, in New York in 2023, the gallery's first exhibition built around one artist's web3 project. Unit London gave him the solo show *Mechanical Hand* that same year. [*Day Gardens*](https://www.gondi.xyz/collections/day-gardens.md) followed in 2025 with laCollection, half of its works paired with textured prints on wood panels. [*From Noise*](https://www.gondi.xyz/collections/from-noise-by-tyler-hobbs.md) appeared at Zero 10 in Art Basel Miami Beach that December.

LACMA holds *Connected for the Moment I* and the drawing *Discrete Affection #3*. SFMOMA holds *Careless and Well-Intentioned #4*. His work has appeared in auctions at Christie's, Sotheby's and Phillips.

## At a glance

- Practice: Generative art, plotter drawing and painting
- In museums: SFMOMA, LACMA, Museum of Art + Light
- Based in: Austin, TX
- Platforms: Art Blocks, Bright Moments, laCollection, Shape
- Education: B.S. Computer Science, University of Texas at Austin (2010)

## Notable works

- 2021: [Fidenza](https://www.gondi.xyz/collections/fidenza-by-tyler-hobbs.md), Art Blocks Curated
- 2021: [Incomplete Control](https://www.gondi.xyz/collections/incomplete-control-by-tyler-hobbs.md), Bright Moments
- 2022: [QQL, with Dandelion Mané](https://www.gondi.xyz/collections/qql.md)
- 2022: [Careless and Well-Intentioned](https://www.tylerxhobbs.com/works/careless-and-well-intentioned)
- 2023: [Connected for the Moment I](https://collections.lacma.org/object/281276)

## In museum collections

- 2023: [Careless and Well-Intentioned #4 (2022), an NFT, gift of the artist](https://unitlondon.com/2024-06-17/lacma-and-sfmoma-acquire-pioneering-art-by-tyler-hobbs), San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), San Francisco, CA
- 2023: [Connected for the Moment I (2023), an NFT, and the charcoal drawing Discrete Affection #3 (2022)](https://collections.lacma.org/object/281276), Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Los Angeles, CA
- [QQL: Analog 4 (QQL#222), an acrylic painting on panel, the museum's first acquisition](https://kcstudio.org/brave-new-world-museum-of-art-light/), Museum of Art + Light, Manhattan, KS

## Top sales

- 2021: [Fidenza #313](https://www.gondi.xyz/collections/fidenza-by-tyler-hobbs/78000313.md), 1,000 ETH (about $3.3M)
- 2021: [Fidenza #77](https://www.gondi.xyz/collections/fidenza-by-tyler-hobbs/78000077.md), 950 ETH (about $2.9M)
- 2021: [Fidenza #772](https://www.gondi.xyz/collections/fidenza-by-tyler-hobbs/78000772.md), 777 ETH (about $2.5M)
- 2021: [Fidenza #723](https://www.gondi.xyz/collections/fidenza-by-tyler-hobbs/78000723.md), 650 ETH (about $2M)
- 2021: [Fidenza #870](https://www.gondi.xyz/collections/fidenza-by-tyler-hobbs/78000870.md), 500 ETH (about $1.6M)
- 2021: [Fidenza #529](https://www.gondi.xyz/collections/fidenza-by-tyler-hobbs/78000529.md), 500 ETH (about $1.6M)

## Exhibitions

- 2025: [Solo presentation: From Noise, with SOLOS at Zero 10](https://www.rightclicksave.com/article/tyler-hobbs-on-signal-and-noise-from-noise-art-basel-miami-beach), Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami Beach
- 2025: [Infinite Images: The Art of Algorithms](https://infiniteimages.toledomuseum.org/artist/tyler-hobbs), Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH
- 2025: [Solo presentation: Day Gardens, with laCollection at the Digital Art Mile](https://tylerxhobbs-studio.beehiiv.com/p/tyler-hobbs-studio-2025-year-in-review), laCollection, Basel
- 2025: [Rhizome World](https://tylerxhobbs-studio.beehiiv.com/p/tyler-hobbs-studio-2025-year-in-review), New Museum, Water Street Projects, New York
- 2024-2025: [Code & Canvas: Defining Digital Art in the Age of the Blockchain](https://tylerxhobbs-studio.beehiiv.com/p/tyler-hobbs-collaborates-with-art-basel-miami-for-an-exclusive-poster-series-and-a-2024-year-in-revi), Museum of Art + Light, Manhattan, KS
- 2023: [Solo show: QQL: Analogs](https://www.pacegallery.com/exhibitions/tyler-hobbs-qql-analogs/), Pace, New York
- 2023: [Solo show: Mechanical Hand](https://jingdailyculture.com/tyler-hobbss-solo-show-mechanical-hand-blurs-man-and-machine/), Unit London, London
- 2023: [Notes From the Ether](https://www.tylerxhobbs.com/about), ArtScience Museum, Singapore
- 2022: [DYOR](https://www.tylerxhobbs.com/about), Kunsthalle Zürich, Zurich
- 2022: [Ex-Machina: A History of Generative Art](https://www.tylerxhobbs.com/about), Phillips, London
- 2021: [Solo show: Incomplete Control](https://decrypt.co/84296/fidenza-artist-sells-7m-worth-of-ethereum-nfts-buyers-havent-seen-yet), Bright Moments, New York
- 2018: [Solo show: Progress](https://www.tylerxhobbs.com/about), Galería Dos Topos, León, Mexico

## Recognition

- 2025: [Finalist, Digital Art Awards (HOFA with Phillips)](https://www.tylerxhobbs.com/about), HOFA and Phillips
- 2024: [Hall of Honor Emerging Leader Award](https://tylerxhobbs-studio.beehiiv.com/p/tyler-hobbs-collaborates-with-art-basel-miami-for-an-exclusive-poster-series-and-a-2024-year-in-revi), University of Texas at Austin, College of Natural Sciences, Austin, TX
- 2019: [Amethyst (Best in Show)](https://www.tylerxhobbs.com/about), Envision Arts
- 2017: [Short list, Texas Biennial](https://www.tylerxhobbs.com/about), Texas Biennial

## Collaborations

- 2026: [Please Respond, a chain of ten generative works by Hobbs and nine other artists, each building on the code before it](https://www.rightclicksave.com/article/please-respond-generative-arts-exquisite-corpse-tyler-hobbs-interview), Shape
- 2024: [64 Bits of Sunlight, a generative poster series for Art Basel Miami Beach](https://tylerxhobbs-studio.beehiiv.com/p/tyler-hobbs-collaborates-with-art-basel-miami-for-an-exclusive-poster-series-and-a-2024-year-in-revi), Art Basel and Iconic
- 2024: [Harbor Scene (after John Henry Twachtman), for Remembrance of Things Future](https://www.gondi.xyz/collections/harbor-scene-by-tyler-hobbs.md), LACMA and Cactoid Labs
- 2023: [Two Lovers, in Structure, a 15-metre mural in Toranomon](https://www.timeout.com/tokyo/news/new-15-metre-tall-mural-by-world-famous-artist-tyler-hobbs-appears-in-toranomon-062623), Mori Building, Tokyo Mural Project, Tokyo
- 2022: [QQL, with Dandelion Mané](https://www.gondi.xyz/collections/qql.md)

## Press & resources

- 2025: [Tyler Hobbs on Signal and Noise](https://www.rightclicksave.com/article/tyler-hobbs-on-signal-and-noise-from-noise-art-basel-miami-beach), Right Click Save
- 2023: [New 15 metre-tall mural by world-famous artist Tyler Hobbs appears in Toranomon](https://www.timeout.com/tokyo/news/new-15-metre-tall-mural-by-world-famous-artist-tyler-hobbs-appears-in-toranomon-062623), Time Out Tokyo
- 2023: [Tyler Hobbs Blurs Man and Machine With New Exhibition, "Mechanical Hand"](https://jingdailyculture.com/tyler-hobbss-solo-show-mechanical-hand-blurs-man-and-machine/), Jing Daily Culture
- 2022: [Art Blocks Fidenza Creator Sells $17M of Ethereum NFTs Amid Market Slump](https://decrypt.co/110776/art-blocks-fidenza-creatory-tyler-hobbs-17m-ethereum-nfts-market-slump), Decrypt
- 2021: [Fidenza: Tyler Hobbs wrote software that generates art worth millions](https://cointelegraph.com/magazine/fidenza-tyler-hobbs-wrote-a-program-to-make-art-that-is-now-worth-millions/), Cointelegraph Magazine
- 2021: [Art Buyer Turned $1,400 Into $3.3 Million in Ethereum With This JPEG](https://decrypt.co/79247/art-blocks-fidenza-nft-3-3-million-ethereum), Decrypt

## Milestones

- 2021: [Releases Fidenza on Art Blocks Curated: 999 works, minted at 0.17 ETH each](https://cointelegraph.com/magazine/fidenza-tyler-hobbs-wrote-a-program-to-make-art-that-is-now-worth-millions/), Art Blocks
- 2021: [Fifty Golden Tokens for Incomplete Control sell for about 1,800 ETH before any work is shown](https://decrypt.co/84296/fidenza-artist-sells-7m-worth-of-ethereum-nfts-buyers-havent-seen-yet), Bright Moments
- 2022: [Launches QQL with Dandelion Mané: 900 mint passes sell out at 14 ETH each](https://decrypt.co/110776/art-blocks-fidenza-creatory-tyler-hobbs-17m-ethereum-nfts-market-slump)
- 2023: [QQL: Analogs becomes Pace's first exhibition dedicated to one artist's web3 project](https://www.pacegallery.com/exhibitions/tyler-hobbs-qql-analogs/), Pace
- 2023: [LACMA and SFMOMA acquire his work](https://unitlondon.com/2024-06-17/lacma-and-sfmoma-acquire-pioneering-art-by-tyler-hobbs)
- 2025: [All 12 works of From Noise find buyers at Zero 10, Art Basel Miami Beach](https://tylerxhobbs-studio.beehiiv.com/p/tyler-hobbs-studio-2025-year-in-review)

## Links

- [tylerxhobbs.com](https://www.tylerxhobbs.com)
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- [tylerxhobbs.com/about](https://www.tylerxhobbs.com/about)

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