GRAFFITI QUEENS — DECENTRALAND 2021
The documented all-women NFT art exhibition hosted by Graffiti Kings, organised with Darren Cullen / SER and curated by Crypto Yuna.
The event and why it matters
Graffiti Queens was an exhibition of NFT artworks by women digital artists that opened in Decentraland on 3 April 2021. Graffiti Kings founder Darren Cullen / SER was identified as the organiser and host, with artist Crypto Yuna as curator and the Women of Crypto Art (WOCA) community involved. It is a documented episode in the collective's journey from physical graffiti commissions into virtual-world exhibition production, not an invented event inside the wiki's fictional Year 3008 universe.
Crypto Briefing's March 27 preview names Cullen and Yuna and estimated around 200 participants. Agora Digital's April 28 post-event essay confirms the exhibition launched and discusses its artistic and social context. Artist Soul'D's April 16 first-person account describes moving through the virtual galleries and seeing her own work displayed. These three types of source establish announcement, contemporary critical review and artist experience.
Vegas City Skate Park and the digital venue
The exhibition was set around a virtual skate park at Vegas City in Decentraland. The community's Decentraland Weekly event archive lists 3 April at 20:00 UTC and position (-100, 150), while Art Rights' article gives a different coordinate notation (100, 150). These historic location references are not a guarantee that the scene still exists unchanged in the current client.
Soul'D describes ramps, half-pipes and NFT displays surrounding the skating area; her work Rainbow Warrior — Wisdom of Water was among the exhibits. Her photographs and art remain on her site and are linked rather than copied into this archive. Participant account and images.
Crypto Yuna, WOCA and the open-call format
Pre-exhibition reporting described an open submission policy for female and female-identifying artists, without an application fee and without restricting participants to one NFT marketplace. This approach connected emerging makers with established figures in crypto art. Crypto Briefing on the submission policy.
Agora traces the show's origins to conversations within WOCA about representation in the NFT art scene. Yuna's September 2021 Floor is Rising podcast connects Graffiti Queens to an earlier women-focused show, She ART, developed with collaborators including Stina Jones, Angie Taylor and Sparrow. The podcast is a later retrospective, not a contemporaneous attendance tally.
Participation and artwork totals: different contemporary accounts
Sources do not provide one reconciled final count. Before launch, Crypto Briefing reported approximately 200 artists. Agora's post-event review describes six galleries and more than 280 artworks; Yuna's subsequent podcast recounts nine galleries and more than 300 works. These figures may relate to different layouts, dates or counting methods. The archive preserves the attribution instead of selecting the largest number as a verified final total.
Artists, participants and independent exhibition references
The event attracted attention through artists including Pussy Riot, Angie Taylor, Crypto Yuna, Viktoria Modesta and Marjan Moghaddam. Coverage also refers to Paris Hilton's interest; a reported appearance or social acknowledgement should not be mistaken for a curatorial or organisational role. Art Rights summary; Agora Digital on Marjan Moghaddam.
The independent artist Soul'D names and links further exhibitors in her personal post, including Lapin Mignon, drawwriteplay, hairofmedusa, Shelly Soneja, Daniella Doodle, Emma Volou, Kristy Glas, Angie Taylor, Alejandra Her, Mercedes de Bellard, Hawkward Art, Stellabelle, Jung, Crypto Yuna, Agueda, Artemis, Ruth Allen, Kate the Cursed, Monichrome, Caatoshi, MisMizery, Sala7ef, Shape and Marjan. That list documents artists represented in one participant's selected gallery tour, not an exhaustive official roster. Explore Soul'D's linked participant collection.
Additional independently maintained professional records identify the show as part of the exhibition history of Sarah Ridgley (Glaem), Toppy Eton and Vanessa Coleman. Their own art histories independently connect their practices to the exhibition.
Pussy Riot, political art and charitable intentions
Crypto Briefing interviewed Nadezhda Tolokonnikova of Pussy Riot ahead of the exhibition about the collective's NFT practice and proposed use of proceeds from its own NFT sales to support activist artwork and a domestic-violence shelter in Russia. This is not evidence that all Graffiti Queens exhibition sales were donated to the same causes, nor that a particular final donation total was achieved. Read the original interview and caveats.
The exhibition's historical importance lies in its open format, varied participant backgrounds and use of an accessible virtual venue. It should not be represented as having verified aggregate sales, awards or charitable outcomes without specific records.
A second Graffiti Kings Decentraland appearance: Art Week 2021
The Graffiti Queens spring exhibition should not be conflated with a separate later appearance in the official Decentraland Art Week 2021 programme. Decentraland announced Graffiti Kings as the closing-event art collective, with DJ James Parkes and Mr C credited in the musical programme. A July 15, 2021 independent recap repeats the announced role. This demonstrates a second reported Decentraland collaboration, but the programme alone does not prove every announced installation or performance was completed as planned.
What followed: Graffiti Queens 2022
Independent CryptoArtNet reporting on 5 April 2022 describes a second annual Graffiti Queens NFT Art Festival spread across metaverse galleries, primarily Cryptovoxels. It is a distinct event from this April 2021 Decentraland show, though curator Crypto Yuna and the community connection recur. See the 2022 exhibition archive and its linked artist portfolios.
Sources, provenance and further reading
For the wider Darren Cullen record visit SER's historical timeline; for external and social links see the press/source network; for the parallel WAX collections visit the WAX registry. The 2021 Decentraland exhibition and the WAX NFT collections are related through the Graffiti Kings movement but are not the same chain, exhibition or asset programme.
Original reporting and artist records: Crypto Briefing, Agora Digital, Art Rights, Soul'D, Floor is Rising, Decentraland, Glaem, Toppy Eton and theVERSEverse. A historical event link is not a guarantee of present access to a scene or account.