Next Wave returns as a curated online auction showcasing the forefront of digital art. This year’s highlights include works by Yatreda, Jack Kaido, Trevor Jones, Obvious and Mad Dog Jones — visionaries who are shaping the digital art landscape.

The auction brings together exceptional works, offering collectors at all levels the opportunity to engage with and collect some of the most influential names in digital art today.

Bridging Worlds: Digital Art Beyond Borders is a charity auction to benefit UNHCR, the United Nations High Commissioner For Refugees. Inspired by the 60th Biennale's theme, "Stranieri Ovunque" - "Foreigners Everywhere," Bridging Worlds aims to explore the transformative power of digital art in connecting worlds, transcending borders, and fostering a sense of unity across diverse artistic practices. Curated by Micol Ap, the auction features 11 artworks generously donated by notable digital artists including Erick Calderon (Snowfro), IX Shells, Mario Klingemann, and Niceaunties among others.

Our first on-chain generative art collection with 125 unique works by Robert Alice — artist and pioneer in the crypto art and NFT space.

Creating Connections: Digital Art for Connectivity is a charity auction to benefit Giga, a UNICEF and International Telecommunication Union (ITU) initiative to connect every school and student to the Internet. Curated by Nina Roehrs, the auction features 24 artworks generously donated by notable digital artists including 0xDEAFBEEF, Kevin Abosch, Jennifer and Kevin McCoy and Sarah Meyohas, among others.

Next Wave: The Miami Edit showcases a curated group of artists at the forefront of digital art today, including Defaced, Yatreda, Jack Butcher, Osinachi and Panter Xhita. Working with a diverse range of mediums, from the first text-to-image historical AI experiments to photographic reinterpretations of Ethiopian lore, each artist has crafted a signature style that is widely recognised in the contemporary digital art space.

Christie’s 3.0 presents Future Frequencies: Explorations in Generative Art and Fashion in collaboration with Gucci. This fully on-chain auction showcases many of today’s leading talents, such as Claire Silver, Tyler Hobbs, Emily Xie, Botto, William Mapan, Zach Lieberman and other innovators in the digital art space.

Cartography of the Soul, curated with 1OF1, is an on-chain digital art auction featuring a group of artworks donated by visionary artists to benefit the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS). Christie’s has assembled more than 30 new works — many of which reflect the artists’ own profound experiences with psychedelics — from DeeKay, Dusin Yellin, Sam Spratt, Killer Acid, Mad Dog Jones and more.

Coinciding with Psychedelic Science 2023, Cartography of the Soul will be exhibited at the conference in Denver, Colorado from 21–23 June with select highlights on view at Christie’s New York from 23–27 June.

Sale proceeds will be donated to support the research and public education of life-saving psychedelic therapies led by MAPS, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization founded in 1986.

Checks Elements is part of a 152-piece collection of monoprints and non-fungible token pairs exploring the elemental relationship between digital and physical art, and the manual and automatic processes that are present in each. The generatively native works are conceived and created by Jack Butcher in collaboration with legendary master printmaker Jean Milant and Cirrus Editions. Digital counterparts and their complete rendering instructions are stored entirely on the Ethereum blockchain.

Next Wave: The New York Edit showcases a curated group of artists at the forefront of digital art today. Working with a diverse range of mediums, spanning generative art and AI generated photography to on-chain art and digital abstract expressionism, each artist has crafted a signature style that is widely recognized in the digital art space.Highlights are on view at Christie's New York galleries from 13–18 April, including works by ripcache, Jack Kaido, Brooke DiDonato, Joshua Davis and more ground-breaking artists.

Christie’s 3.0 presents Next Wave: The Miami Edit, featuring NFT works by the next generation of digital artists. Coinciding with Art Basel Miami, the auction includes exceptional pieces by the likes of Luis Ponce and Cath Simard, with estimates starting from just 4–6 ETH.

For our first auction, Christie’s 3.0 partners with 18-year-old visual artist Diana Sinclair. Browse and bid on nine new NFT works that explore the artist’s poignant relationship with time.