Aoife O'Dwyer
Born 1986, Limerick, Ireland. Lives & works in Co. Limerick, Ireland. Art practice established 2012.
Statement
My Practice
I create digital artworks exploring the fluid boundaries of identity, memory and reality. Working natively onchain since 2021, my practice has developed as a kind of open archive: a recurring cast of characters instantiated again and again across collections; as profile pictures, 1/1 illustrations, AI-assisted reinterpretations, derivative remixes and published experiments. Each version inheriting a shared visual DNA while expressing something different about who is performing an identity, and in what context.Blending science fiction and ancient mythology through playful experimentation, my work builds bridges between forgotten pasts and imagined futures. Defined by bold graphic line work and a signature neon pastel palette, my soft yet electric tones build dreamlike, techno-organic environments connecting the bioelectric with mycelial networks, where mythic figures find a sense of home on alien worlds. Ultimately my artworks are visual inquiries into the gaps of human perception, inviting viewers to question the uncertainty of their own surroundings and find familiarity within the surreal.
Bio
About Me
Aoife O’Dwyer is a self-taught digital artist and illustrator based in Limerick, Ireland, creating dreamlike worlds at the intersection of identity, memory and internet culture. Defined by bold graphic line work and a signature neon pastel palette, her surreal creations question the uncertainty of our surroundings, inviting viewers to explore the fluid boundaries of reality.Active in the web3 community since 2021 and previously known for co-running the artist collective ‘Bunny’ (which caught the attention of DAZED and The New York Times) Aoife has released over thirty onchain collections across Ethereum, Base, Solana, Tezos, Shape and more. Her onchain works span generative PFP series, 1/1 illustration drops, AI-assisted image and video work and ongoing public archives of process material and experimentation.
She has participated in group exhibitions globally, showing at LUME Studios (New York), Nieuwe Instituut (Rotterdam) and NINFA Labs (Milan) amongst others in Dublin, New York, LA, Miami, London, Paris, Florence, Tokyo and beyond.
Work
Selected Group Exhibitions
2025 UNDERGROUND X, Arta 2 Gallery, Craiova, Romania.2024 Pathways, The Canal Street Art Show, Lume Studios, New York City, USA.
2024 Links Between Worlds, Lavagnini Social Hub, Florence, Italy (curated by Dimensions DAO).
2023 Pride Perspectives, The Canvas 3.0, New York City, USA (curated by OpenSea).
2023 Love is Louder, Ninfa Labs, Milan, Italy (part of Milan Design Week).
2022 DISRUPT_, Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam, Netherlands.
2022 Women of the World, Nowhere, New York City, USA.
2018 Freedom, MART, Rathmines, Dublin, Ireland (curated by Peachy Dublin).
2017 Fair is Foul, Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin, Ireland (Bunny Mag 002 Launch).
Selected Digital Series
2026 Faecar, UNMINTED – animated abstract digital paintings on unseen energies, microscopic &quantum scales and illustrated symbol systems (in progress).
2026 The Unbearable Follies of Feeling, ETH – ongoing 1/1 daily animated GIFs about meme
culture and everyday sentiments with over 58 million views on GIPHY.
2025 Entitularities, SHAPE – 2 x 1/1 AI-generated video + sound loops about elemental spirits.
2024 Interpreters, BASE – AI images blended with illustration work imagining how
biological and bionic elements might intersect in alternate planes of reality.
2024 Ectography, BASE – 2 x 1/1 AI-generated video + sound loops about creative processes..
2021 The Foofees, ETH – ongoing 1/1 art pfp & world building project.
Selected Press
Rachel, Suleymanov. “The Ethereal, Mythical World of Aoife O’Dwyer,” .ART Blog, 21 Mar. 2025.Brownell Mitic, Ginanne. “A Virtual Gathering of Feminist Artists,” New York Times, 6 Oct. 2016.
Le Sigh, The. “Introducing Bunny Collective,” Dazed Digital, 4 Feb. 2014.
