Rio Art Residency is a non-profit artist-residency initiative that connects contemporary and digital artists with NFT exhibitions and collections at no cost to participants. Rio Art Residency's Twitter Score is 15 out of 1000 as of October 2026, ranking #66,579 among 493,668 tracked accounts.
Rio Art Residency was co-founded by Selkie and Efdot, with Selkie serving as Founder and Efdot as Co-Founder and Lead Artist. The programme covers flights, accommodation, boarding, and art supplies for all participating artists, making it fully free to join. Rio Art Residency is affiliated with SuperRare, and its 2025 cohort created work under the theme "When Pixels Learned to Samba," presenting the results in a group exhibition at SuperRare's Offline Gallery.
Rio Art Residency has an ERC-721 collection deployed on Base at contract address 0x8a2e6797d5930527272642a41f36cedc84a3935e. The 2024 programme previously worked with Transient Labs and its ERC-7160 token technology, which allowed collectors to hold works from multiple artists within a single token. Past backers of the initiative included Woodmere Club Cap, White Walls, Blondie23LMD, and Jancarlo Sanchez, among others. Rio Art Residency has accumulated 905 followers as of October 2026 and published 911 posts. It has been mentioned by 25 accounts a total of 65 times.
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The accounts that follow Rio Art Residency include 51 founders, 4 angel investors and 49 influencers, among them DeeZe, MoonPay, SuperRare, Justinaversano, Funghibull and Bryan Brinkman.