Ryan Zurrer

Ryan Zurrer is a Canadian born, Switzerland based entrepreneur, venture investor and one of the most consequential collectors in digital art. He came up through crypto early, in Bitcoin since 2012, led private investments at Polychain Capital and worked at the Web3 Foundation before founding Dialectic, a Swiss crypto investment group, and Vine Ventures. In 2021 he founded 1OF1, a collecting collective whose mission is to collect, contextualize and support art of the digital age. That December he was revealed as the buyer of Beeple's HUMAN ONE, the artist's first physical work, a rotating LED sculpture that cost 28.9 million dollars at Christie's, then the largest sum ever spent on a single NFT artwork by a collector. Through 1OF1 he and the RFC Collection gifted Refik Anadol's Unsupervised to the Museum of Modern Art, and he holds a portfolio of some 27 Anadol works. The collection also spans Sam Spratt, whose Monument Game he brought to Venice during the 2024 Biennale, CryptoPunk 6965, and artists from 0xDEAFBEEF to Sasha Stiles and Auriea Harvey. He appears on the ARTnews Top 200 Collectors list and argues that digital scarcity is what finally made digital art collectable.

Collects blue chip digital and crypto art through his 1OF1 collective: dynamic and AI works by Refik Anadol, Beeple's landmark physical-digital hybrid HUMAN ONE, CryptoPunks, and narrative projects like Sam Spratt's Luci universe. 1OF1 places works with institutions, including the MoMA gift of Anadol's Unsupervised, and mounts exhibitions such as Spratt's Monument Game show in Venice.

• Buying Beeple's HUMAN ONE for 28.9 million dollars at Christie's in 2021
• Founder of the 1OF1 art collection
• Co-gifting Refik Anadol's Unsupervised to MoMA
• Founder of Dialectic and Vine Ventures, ex Polychain Capital
• Bringing Sam Spratt's The Monument Game to Venice in 2024
• ARTnews Top 200 Collectors list

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