YON

YON (b. 1997, Chaco, Argentina) is an artist working in drawing, painting and digital art, much of it published onchain. He grew up drawing in a small city in the north-east of Argentina and left for Paris in 2017. In 2019, a week before moving to Berlin, he saw Julio Le Parc's retrospective in Buenos Aires, and it changed the way he thought about colour and perception.

In 2020 he began publishing onchain, and a year later came Peaceful Groupies: 10,000 characters on Ethereum, every trait drawn by hand and released into the public domain under PEACEVOID, the studio he built around them. The groupie, with its round red nose and pink lips, has been at the centre of his work ever since. His first solo exhibition, EL FUTURO, AYER, opened in Corrientes in 2023.

He lives and works in Berlin, moving more and more towards paintings and objects. Everything starts in the sketchbook, with music playing, and the best ideas move on to canvas, walls or the screen. The result is informal, colourful and loud: cartoons about altered perception and life online, drawn to bend the mind.