Kibo (born 1999) is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice explores the relations, tensions and porosities between the digital world and the physical world.

Before turning to design, then to graphic and plastic production, he studied architecture, an experience that durably marked his relationship to space, structure and construction. Straddling two generations, he had access to computer tools at a very young age, at a time when parental control and the issues around these technologies were still little developed and little questioned. This early immersion gives him an intimate, singular view of the place digital tools have gradually taken in our lives, especially among the youngest.

In parallel, he spends much of his childhood building with LEGO, developing an instinctive relationship to modules, assembly and systems. Video games also hold a central place in his imagination. Worlds like Minecraft, and more broadly building and open-world games, revealed to him very early the possibility of building, exploring and inhabiting autonomous digital spaces, then seen as distinct from the real world.

After graphic design studies, during which he already develops a significant personal practice, Kibo joins the École des beaux-arts de Bordeaux. In 2020 he discovers NFTs, a decisive encounter that acts as an artistic trigger. He immediately sees a space of freedom and experimentation, breaking with traditional academic frames. After his first year he chooses to leave the school to dedicate himself fully to his artistic work and to exploring what the digital and Web3 make possible.

At first, Kibo keeps a reserved relationship to speaking out and visibility. His deeply personal work leads him to stay anonymous on social networks, refusing that identity or gender influence the reading of his works. In this context ø appears, a non-gendered avatar conceived as a mask and a double moving through the digital world. ø becomes at once a conceptual tool, a mirror for the viewer and a form of indirect self-portrait.

His universe gradually moves from 2D to 3D, through largely self-taught learning nourished by exchanges with other artists. From 2023, feeling the need to confront his digital universe with matter, he teaches himself 3D printing and starts producing physical works. Concrete, a fundamental material of architecture and civilization, then enters into dialogue with resin and the cubic structures born from the digital.

He has shown his work internationally, and some of his pieces have been sold at auction houses, notably Sotheby's.