NEW YORK, NY.- Phillips and Daata Editions announced that Jeremy Couillard and Rachel Rossin have been chosen to be the recipients of the Phillips x Daata Artist Commission. The digital artworks, which are currently being created, will be separately premiered and exhibited at Phillips, alongside a selection of other works from the roster of Daata artists. Following the public exhibitions, the artworks will be offered for sale through Daata Editions’ online platform.

David Gryn, Daata Editions’ Founder, said, “We are delighted that Jeremy Couillard and Rachel Rossin are the artists who will represent this collaboration. We came together with the aim to empower artists, the medium and the market place, which is more vital today than ever before.”

Megan Newcome, Phillips’ Director of Digital Strategy said, “Jeremy and Rachel represent the next generation of contemporary art makers and this commission gives us an opportunity to introduce two exciting, young artists to an entirely new collector base.”

Jeremy Couillard recently completed a virtual reality video presented by the New Museum and Rhizome, as well as an installation built around his video game Alien Afterlife at yours mine & ours gallery in New York. In addition to this new commission, he is currently finishing up a two year long project, Sometimes to Deal With the Difficulty of Being Alive I Need to Believe There Is a Possibility That Life Isn't Real, a networked simulation play which will premiere this year. Couillard was recently awarded a 2017 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship in Digital Media. He has exhibited internationally, including in New York, Los Angeles, Texas, Poland, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom. He graduated in 2012 from Columbia University with an MFA in painting.

Rachel Rossin is a painter and self-taught programmer whose multi-disciplinary practice has established her as a pioneer of the burgeoning VR art scene. Her work immerses viewers within digital landscapes that are a blend of painting, installation, and virtual reality. Her recent sculptural works explore the body’s presence and absence in the digital world. She has exhibited in New York, Miami, Seattle, Basel, Riga, Istanbul and Helsinki. Rossin. In 2015 she was the recipient of the first Fellowship in Virtual Reality Research and Development from New Museum’s NEW INC in 2015. In March, her first UK solo show Stalking the Trace opened at the Zabludowicz Collection in London.

Both Rachel Rossin and Jeremy Couillard live and work in New York City.