Artwrld

Global artist discovery platform

  • Stage Product In Development
  • Industry Media and Entertainment
  • Location New York, NY, US
  • Currency USD
  • Founded March 2018
  • Employees 2
  • Incorporation Type Not Incorporated
  • Website artwrld.com

Company Summary

Artwrld is a searchable database of contemporary artists - for artists by artists - that:
• Supports diverse mediums
• Shifts the focus from art output to creative process
• Provides virtual access to artist studios and inventory
• Assists artists in promoting their work
• Educates and enables the discovery of artistic talent

We aim to be the online art platform for the future of art creation and collection by creating a community of discovery.

Team

  • Elizabeth Thys
    CEO

    EDUCATION
    • 2015 MBA, MIT Sloan School of Management.
    • 2007 B.S. Mechanical Engineering, Tufts University.
    AWARDS, GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS
    • 2015 Made in NY Entrepreneur Innovation Grant
    • 2013 MIT Sloan Dean’s Fellowship Award
    EXPERIENCE
    • Cofounder & CEO, limeSHIFT, creative agency in social practice art
    • Hacking Arts, MIT Sloan’s entrepreneurship and innovation conference for creative arts
    • Equity Research, Morgan Stanley

  • Tahir Carl Karmali
    COO

    EDUCATION
    • 2015 MPS in Digital Photography, School of Visual Arts.
    • 2009 BBA Marketing, Les Roches School of Hotel Management.
    AWARDS, GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS
    • 2017 Forbes 30 Under 30 Arts & Style
    • 2015 International Photography Awards – Honorable Mention Professional Fine Art College
    • 2015 International Contemporary African Photography awards: POPCAP
    RESIDENCIES
    • 2017 Pioneer Works Visual Artist
    • 2017 Trestle Gallery Visiting Visual Artist

  • Eto Otitigbe
    CTO

    EDUCATION
    • 2012 MFA in Creative Practice, Transart Institute.
    • 2003 M.S. Engineering Product Design, Stanford University.
    • 1999 B.S. Mechanical Engineering, MIT.
    AWARDS, GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS
    • 2015 CEC Artslink Project Award, Cairo, Egypt
    • 2014 GO! Emerging Artist Commission, STREB, Brooklyn, New York
    RESIDENCIES
    • 2018 Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship
    • 2016 Alfred University Institute for Electronic Art Fellow

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