Josie Bellini

Biography

Josie Bellini is a Chicago-born multidisciplinary digital artist, designer, and entrepreneur widely regarded as one of cryptoart's earliest pioneers, having created cryptoart since 2017. Raised in poverty in Chicago, Bellini's early passion for art evolved into a career at the forefront of the NFT movement, where she has combined painting, digital illustration, and animation to build an expansive, ongoing visual mythology around the crypto ecosystem itself. She is the founder and CEO of CyberBrokers, a generative NFT project and expanding universe of characters and lore that reflects her interest in worldbuilding as an artistic practice, bringing together years of painting and animation work into a cohesive narrative framework. Bellini's work often explores themes of technology, transhumanism, and the future of human consciousness; she has spoken publicly about her interest in mind uploading as a way to extend life beyond the body, reflecting a broader curiosity about the intersection of art, biology, and emerging technology. As a respected voice in the NFT community, she has been featured as a speaker at major industry events including Consensus, and has been interviewed extensively by outlets and podcasts such as PROOF, nft now, and The HODL about her journey as an artist and entrepreneur navigating the earliest days of crypto art. Bellini continues to expand the CyberBrokers universe and her broader artistic practice, positioning herself as both a working artist and a builder of durable, community-driven digital worlds within the NFT space.