Hidden Gems: 5 Artists to Watch from the Artport Exhibition at the Whitney
by | Eleonora Brizi | November 11, 2026
Artport: A History of Internet Art opens to the public at the Whitney Museum of American Art on 21 November, at the centre of a week of digital art events across New York. The exhibition traces how internet-based art has developed. This edition is for collectors following the week in New York or from a distance: five artists from the exhibition, why they matter now, and what work to see by them at the Whitney and how to follow their work from afar.
1. Carla Gannis | View Artist Profile
Brooklyn-based transmedia artist working across painting, digital collage and augmented reality.
Carla Gannis is a Brooklyn-based artist who trained as a painter and began working digitally in the 1990s, developing what she calls Internet Gothic. Her best-known work, The Garden of Emoji Delights (2013 to 2014), remakes Bosch’s triptych in emoji to comment on consumerism, identity and life on screens. She has since worked with augmented reality and her ongoing WWWUNDERKAMMER series, and has taught digital art at Pratt and NYU. For collectors, she is an early example of a painter who moved into digital and on-chain work.
Work the artist at the Whitney: Lady Ava Interface, 2018, Part of Sunrise/Sunset
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Carla Gannis is one of five digital artists in this curated Hidden Gems. The full edition with 5 artists to watch is reserved for members of 100 collectors. The Artist Directory is open to everyone; members get curated selections like this one, so they know which artists to pay attention to.