Damn True

WORLD STRESS TEST Series 02, 2026, Archival pigment print on faded cotton textile, Variable dimensions

Artist Dai Yinglun

Damn True

Damn True is a neurodivergent artist working across digital imagery, photography, and artificial intelligence. His projects explore how algorithms, advertising, and everyday objects turn life into an endless stream of deals and discounts.

Damn True is interested in the moment when a picture stops being just “beautiful” and starts showing how our desires, worries, and algorithms work, which collect us in a feed.

He works on the border between the screen and the physical object, between the human eye and machine vision.

He calls his approach P[AI]NTING ART — painting of the era of neural networks, where pixels, noise, compression artifacts, and reflections from the digital stream and his personal photo archive become colors.

WORLD STRESS TEST Series 01

2026
Archival pigment print on faded cotton textile
Variable dimensions

WORLD STRESS TEST Series 05

2026
Archival pigment print on faded cotton textile
Variable dimensions

WORLD STRESS TEST Series 04

2026
Archival pigment print on faded cotton textile
Variable dimensions

Selected Exhibitions

2025

CIPR, DIGITAL ART PROGRAM


NUR, DIGITAL ART PROGRAM


2024

PROSVET FESTIVAL


NFTNYC, NEW YORK


XVII INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF FINE ARTS


OMFEST


2023

DESARTIVE DUBAI


DOTROOM (VR)


MOSCOW FEST


ФОТОЖИР × ЯНДЕКС.GO


GORKY PARK


VIRTONEX (VR)


GATCHINA, FESTIVAL OF LIGHT


NFT EXHIBITION, FEFU, VLADIVOSTOK


2020

UNIT LONDON


2018

IZO ART GALLERY


APC INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL


PROUN GALLERY


А3 GALLERY


Awards & Talks

Awards

1st Place, APC International Festival


VERA Award, XVII International Festival of Fine Arts (SXEMA Community)


Lectures and Performances

HSE Graduate School of Design — Lecture on Digital Art and AI


XIII International Festival of Fine Arts — Performance


G8 Festival — Public Presentation