Visithra Manikam is a self-taught Malaysian woman visual artist and photographer from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. She paints both expressionism and pop art/ surrealism in the modern Indian art style and creates acrylic paintings, digital art, animations, glitch art and sculptures. Based in Malaysia, she credits NFTs for introducing her art to a wider global audience and opportunities. Through NFT platforms, her art began to be collected globally including by prominent digital art collectors such as Cozomo De Medici (The Medici Collection). Signore Cozomo, who recently donated the largest collection of blockchain artwork to LACMA. Today, her art is in the hands of 280 over collectors worldwide. She was recently onboarded to Superrare - becoming the first Malaysian woman artist to be accepted. She was also the first Malaysian visual artist to be featured on Times Square. New York Billboards Her art was featured on the coveted annual Medici Collection exhibition in Times Square, New York billboards* in 2022 and 2023. She was also selected to be featured on NFT NYC Times Square exhibition billboards in 2022 (One Time Square) and 2023 (Nasdaq). In 2024, she had her first museum solo in CiCA Museum, Seoul, South Korea. Her digital art was exhibited at the first NFT physical Museum in the world in Seattle in 2022, as well as exhibited in Los Angeles, New York, Cochin (India), Liverpool, UK, Dubai and Tokyo. While her acrylic paintings have been exhibited in multiple cities around the world including Osaka, Japan; yogyakarta, Indonesia; Seoul, South Korea, Taiwan, Berlin and multiple cities in India and more. Her art focuses on human behaviour and experiences which she explores through psychology, eastern philosophy and symbolism. She also focuses on subjects such as racism, colourism, feminism and social issues. She was also a speaker at NFT NYC 2022. She was named one of Asia’s Most Influential in 2022 by Tatler Asia.