Most Influential 2022

(Osinachi)
Most Influential Artist: Osinachi
The Nigerian artist creates one-of-a-kind images using Microsoft Word. For this season, he depicted Mikhaylo Federov, the Ukrainian official who raised about $200 million in c...
(Osinachi)

(Ravi Vora)
Most Influential Artist: Ravi Vora
The Los Angeles-based photographer captured Gary Vaynerchuk and Vayner3 President Avery Akkineni.
(Ravi Vora)

Sarah Richardson Calligraphy (SarahScript.com)
Most Influential Artist: Sarah Script
The calligrapher minted an NFT of White House crypto adviser Carole House.
Sarah Richardson Calligraphy (SarahScript.com)

(Federico Solmi)
Most Influential Artist: Federico Solmi
The Italian artist, a resident of New York City, created a 3D image of Vitalik Buterin and the Ethereum developers for their role orchestrating The Merge, the most consequenti...
(Federico Solmi)

Will Ess and Adam Levine of 330AI (Will Ess for Pixelmind.ai/CoinDesk)
The Artist and Technology Behind 36 AI Portraits
How to generate three dozen portraits for the Most Influential 2022 in about a week? Meet Pixelmind.ai, the app that saved this CoinDesk feature from visual ennui.
Will Ess and Adam Levine of 330AI (Will Ess for Pixelmind.ai/CoinDesk)

(Kevin Ross/CoinDesk)
CoinDesk Got Colorful With the Most Influential 2022 NFT Collection
CoinDesk has partnered with 14 truly incredible artists to immortalize on-chain some of the Most Influential 2022, whose NFT portraits will be made available in an exclusive a...
(Kevin Ross/CoinDesk)

(Dave Krugman)
Most Influential Artist: Dave Krugman
The photographer captured his portrait of Erick Calderon at a Bright Moments NFT art event in Mexico City.
(Dave Krugman)

(Kevin Ross/CoinDesk)
Presenting CoinDesk's Most Influential 2022
Fifty people who defined the year in crypto.
(Kevin Ross/CoinDesk)

(Bryan Brinkman)
Most Influential Artist: Bryan Brinkman
The New York animator tries to display the mystery of Razzlekhan and Lichtenstein, who kicked off this year’s descent into fraud and deception.
(Bryan Brinkman)

(Trevor Jones and Violet Jones/CoinDesk)
Most Influential Artist: Trevor and Violet Jones
The artist couple collaborated for the first time ever on their painting of Alexey Pertsev, the developer arrested for his role in creating Tornado Cash.
(Trevor Jones and Violet Jones/CoinDesk)