We’re dedicating the month to unearthing and celebrating the world’s most authored and notable women artists in AI. Curated by Leonardo’s Jessie Hughes, here she highlights excellence in design and creativity by 50 leading women in AI, in celebration of 2025’s International Women’s Day.
Rozemarlin Borkent, Netherlands
Rozemarlin Borkent is a Netherlands-based artist whose work celebrates the richness of humanity through AI and digital techniques. Inspired by diverse perspectives, she creates striking new beings by merging photographs of individuals from different backgrounds, vintage images, and AI-generated elements. Her art revolves around the idea that cultural differences are stunning facets of a shared human identity. Featured in Vogue and showcased at the PhotoVogue Festival and London Art Biennale, Rozemarlin’s work invites viewers to reflect on diversity’s beauty and the unifying power of art.
Maddy Minnis, Mexico City
Maddy Minnis is a travel and environmental photographer based in Mexico City whose work centers on pareidolia — the human tendency to find meaningful images in randomness. By merging photography, printing, scanning, and AI manipulation, Maddy explores the shifting boundaries between perception and reality. Like coaxing a wild animal, her practice plays at the edges of understanding as she shapes chaotic fragments into dreamlike compositions that echo the subconscious mind.
Alice Gordon
Alice Gordon is a raw AI maximalist whose work explores the quiet corners of existence, repression, and the surreal. An introvert by nature, she channels her perpetual anxiety into her collections, using AI to probe the silent gaps in conscious thought. As part of the esteemed Post Photographic Perspectives roster by Fellowship, she continues to refine her signature style — what she calls absurdist surreal lonerism — blending experimentation and spontaneity to reflect the complexities of the human psyche.
Joy Fennell, United States
Joy Fennell is a dynamic creative director and the founder of creative studio, The Future in Black — redefining the fashion, beauty and art landscape, while working tirelessly to ensure equitable opportunities for Black creatives in emerging tech fields. For over twenty years, Joy has made her mark as a makeup artist and creative director, and she is now fusing fashion, beauty, and technology in the realms of AI, AR, and 3D design, all while championing the Black creative community.
Jess Mac, Canada
Jess Mac (they/them) is a multidisciplinary artist, going by the name Dissociative Dreams online, whose work confronts institutional violence, personal trauma, and the politics of embodiment with raw, unflinching honesty. Blurring the lines between digital art, animation, performance, and community-driven projects, their practice subverts dominant narratives, creating space for queer, dissociative, and fluid identities. Featured in Artforum, VICE, and PAPER, their work is both an act of resistance and a testament to the power of art as political agency.
Lilly Illo, Australia
Lilyillo (born 1981, Sydney) is a multidisciplinary artist based in Canberra, Australia, working across traditional mediums of watercolour & drawing as well as digital AI mediums. Her work explores personal stories, family history & memories, concepts of identity, notions of craftsmanship & acts of making and unmaking.
Nastassja Abel, Germany
Nastassja Abel is a German artist and co-founder of Serifa, whose work explores the intersections of AI, anonymity, and artistic expression. Featured by VOGUE, PERFECT, HUBE, and ZEIT, her art delves into themes of encryption, incognito, and the beauty of imperfection. Embracing AI for its chaos factor, Nastassja creates visually striking, intentionally unsettling works as a daily practice, that challenge traditional notions of art and authorship, inviting viewers to find meaning in the blurred and ambiguous.
Guppy, Singapore
Guppy is a Singapore-based AI artist and creative director known for her striking fusion of human and animal forms. Her creations feature wild, otherworldly creatures that challenge viewers to explore themes of self and alter ego through a lens of unease and curiosity. With a background spanning photography, fintech, and AI-generated video storytelling, Guppy bridges the worlds of art and technology, crafting narratives rich in visual complexity. A designer by day, artist by night, she continues to explore uncharted territories in AI art, blending personal expression.
Laura Rautjoki, Finland
Laura Rautjoki is a Finnish photographer, with her skills extending beyond the camera. A career in photography and coding, Rautjoki navigates the evolving digital art landscape, embracing AI’s creative potential while critically engaging with its cultural impact. Her work blends archival inspiration with AI tools to craft striking, dreamlike composition.
Jacqui Kenny, New Zealand
Jacqui Kenny is a New Zealand-born artist and curator known for transforming digital landscapes into evocative visual narratives. First gaining recognition for @streetview.portraits, a striking Instagram series capturing remote Google Street View locations as a response to her agoraphobia, she later expanded her practice into AI-driven art. Kenny reimagines her curated archives as AI-generated dreamscapes, blending nostalgia, technology, and storytelling in sold-out NFT collections and acclaimed exhibitions.
Laura Buechner, Germany
Laura Buechner is the co-founder and creative director of Stoodio.ai, an AI platform designed for brands, designers, and fashion enthusiasts. Based in Southern Germany, she holds a Master’s degree in Fashion Design with distinction from Kingston University London, with her work showcased twice at London Fashion Week and featured in Vogue UK and Vogue Italia’s talent supplement. With over a decade of experience spanning the casual premium to luxury fashion sectors, Buechner seamlessly merges her technical expertise and creative vision to explore the transformative potential of AI in fashion.
Laurie Simmons, United States
Laurie Simmons is a treasured American artist and key figure of The Pictures Generation, known for her staged photography and films that challenge notions of identity, consumerism, and artifice. Since the late 1970s, she has used dolls, mannequins, and miniatures as psychologically charged stand-ins, crafting surreal yet incisive narratives about gender roles and self-presentation. Her work, housed in MoMA, the Guggenheim, and the Met, continues to evolve — most recently embracing AI as a new frontier in visual storytelling.
Leilanni Todd, United States
Leilanni Todd is a New York-based Creative Director, working across advertising, fashion, and new media. Previously acting as Creative Director for Apple, Media Arts Lab, Squarespace, Droga5, and Mother New York, her current focus is on creating digital narratives and experiences using Generative AI and 3D media. She currently teaches Generative AI for Virtual Production at NYU Tisch, bridging the gap between emerging tech and cinematic innovation.
Alina P. Aleksandrovna
Alina P. Aleksandrovna is a generative artist who thrives in the tension between control and surrender, using AI as both a tool and an unpredictable force. Her practice is an obsessive act of patience — stripping away habitual design choices to uncover unexpected, fragmented beauty through trial and iteration. In her work, randomness isn’t a glitch but a pursuit, a way of making space for the unknown to emerge.
Vichy Abalos, Spain
Vichy Abalos is a Spanish AI artist and creative director who operates at the intersection of technology, cybernetics, and surreal digital aesthetics. Describing her practice as a “virtual operating room,” she dissects and reconstructs imagination using AI tools. From character designs to visual treatments, her work transforms speculative concepts into otherworldly artworks that blur the line between human and machine.
Maria Mavropoulou, Greece
Maria Mavropoulou is a visual artist based in Athens, whose practice explores photography and its evolving forms, including VR, GAN, and AI-generated imagery. Her work explores the intersection of intimate human photography and AI-generated visuals, reflecting on how family histories shape our perception of self and belonging while highlighting the relationship between words and images.
Veronika Pell, Finland
Veronika Pell is an AI artist and award-winning creative who mixes film, photography, and multimedia with cutting-edge tech to craft bold, striking visuals. UsingAI tools, she blends artistry with branding, creating work that feels both experimental and polished. With a background in storytelling, animation, and editing, she’s always pushing the boundaries of what’s possible in digital art.
Amanda Talbot, Australia
Amanda Talbot is the creator of Tilly Talbot, the world’s first AI designer, unveiled at Milan Design Week by her Australian firm, Studio Snoop. A visionary designer and researcher, Talbot explores the intersection of technology, creativity, and human connection, particularly how AI can ease loneliness. Through Tilly, she challenges traditional design roles, redefining the relationship between artificial intelligence and emotional engagement in the creative process.
Rotem Goeta-Mitz, Israel
Rotem Goeta-Mitz is a fashion designer and AI artist who merges cutting-edge technology with contemporary fashion design. She is the co-founder of Future Positive, specializing in crafting immersive narratives through AI and 3D design for fashion and luxury brands. By integrating real-life products with AI and CGI visuals, the studio seamlessly bridges the virtual and physical worlds, creating visionary scenes ranging from hyper-realistic to dreamlike.
Elsa Carvalho, Portugal
Elsa Carvalho is a Portuguese software engineer and artist, her career bridging the worlds of computer science and art. With a PhD in computer science, she transforms code-generated images into AI-expanded compositions, blurring the lines between nature and computation. Now venturing into immersive video art, Carvalho continues to push the boundaries of technology and artistic expression.
Alina Trifan, United Kingdom
Alina Trifan is a Sheffield-based photographer whose work explores memory, migration, and personal reflection, using photography and AI as both a shield and a connector. As an immersive dialogue between artist and AI, she weaves together personal archives from years of travel and displacement. Blending nostalgia with speculative storytelling, her work meditates on impermanence and transformation — where themes of decay and apocalypse give way to beauty, curiosity, and human resilience.
Khyati Trehan, India & United States
Khyati Trehan is an awarded Indian graphic designer & 3D visual artist based in New York. At Google Creative Lab, she develops visual systems and experimental tools, while also pursuing personal art projects and exploring early-stage technologies. Formerly a senior communication designer at IDEO Munich, Khyati’s work draws from project context and pushes the boundaries of visual expression, with collaborations including The Oscars, The New York Times, WIRED, Vogue, and The New Yorker.
María Constanza Lobos, Argentina
María Constanza Lobos is a digital artist who creates immersive ecosystems where the organic and algorithmic converge, using artificial intelligence as an imaginative prosthesis. Through performances, installations, and video, her work explores the mutability and erosion of digital information, transforming data flows into speculative landscapes. Drawing inspiration from the biodiversity and sociopolitical complexities of Latin America, Lobos examines the porous boundaries between human and non-human agencies, crafting generative environments that challenge perceptions of technology, nature, and collective futures.
Alex Naghavi, United States
Alex Naghavi is an award-winning, tech-forward, and culture-driven Creative Director and AI Artist with a rich background in digital product, branding, and venturing. Based in Los Angeles, her career spans over sixteen years, grounded in purpose, beauty, and simplicity — exploring the intersection of design, AI, and storytelling. Through her research practice, she investigates themes of nature, emergence, and materiality in the digital age. She is a first-generation Australian of Persian and Dutch heritage.
Anastasia Vladimirskaya, Russia
Anastasia Vladimirskaya is an artist who makes visual commentary on the uneasy realities of the modern world. Through AI-generated imaginary realms, she finds tranquility in the surreal. Her work balances the grotesque with an unexpected peacefulness — something she argues the world sorely lacks. Questioning AI’s future, she sees it as both a fracture in reality and a limitless tool for expressing the depths of the human psyche.
Ivona Tau, Lithuania
Ivona Tau, PhD, is a Lithuanian new media artist blending AI and photography to create emotionally resonant, memory-like visuals. With 15 years of experience in AI research and photography, she transforms analog and digital film through generative neural networks. Her work has exhibited at Art Basel Miami Beach, Sotheby’s, and Bitforms New York, and is held in major museum collections. Combining her mathematical and computer knowledge with her taste for painting and photography — her practice explores ideas of memory and imagination.
Anya Klyueva, Russia
Anya Klyueva is a fashion photographer and visual artist who seamlessly blends reality with neural networks to craft striking, cinematic imagery. With a background in street, travel, and editorial photography, her eye for image excels in AI. She placed in the Top 10 creators for New York City’s first-ever AI Fashion Week (AIFW).
Julie Wieland, Germany
Julie Wieland is a Luxembourg-born, Germany-based graphic designer and visual artist who seamlessly blends traditional techniques with generative AI to craft dreamlike, melancholic visual narratives. Drawing inspiration from cinema, literature, and personal experiences, her work explores the possibilities of post-photography and AI cinema, using light, color, and composition to evoke intimate, immersive atmospheres.
Clara López, Spain
Clara López is an AI artist specializing in branding, campaigns, editorial, and creative direction. Her work merges AI and design to craft impactful, memorable experiences. Clara excels in storytelling, using visual elements to bring narratives to life. She transforms ideas into images that not only capture attention but tell stories that resonate.
Ariel Rosso, United States
Ariel Rosso is an art director and artist whose dreamy, pink pastel-hued AI artworks explore themes of ethereal beauty, nostalgia, memory, solitude, and connection. With a deep tie to nature and water, and a background in fine art, Ariel’s unique artistic vision invites viewers to immerse themselves in the captivating interplay of light, color, and emotion through dreamlike scenes that evoke a sense of wonder and reflection. Rosso’s work has garnered admiration and inspiration from the AI community, her work having featured globally in magazines and exhibitions, and even on the social feeds of some of her favourite brands.
Beth Frey, Canada & Mexico
Beth Frey is a multidisciplinary artist whose work spans drawing, painting, video, sculpture, and installation. With a wry, absurdist sense of humor, she blurs the line between the beautiful and grotesque, the innocent and perverse — often inserting representations of herself into her vividly chromatic, cartoon-like worlds. Expanding her practice through AI and smartphone apps, Frey’s viral Sentient Muppet Factory Instagram series playfully reimagines film stills where children’s TV aesthetics collide with auteur cinema, making the bizarre feel strangely familiar.
Becky Constantinides, Greece
Becky Constantinides, best known as beckyandthebots, is a nomadic photographer and AI artist based in Athens, Greece, known for her vibrant, iridescent visuals and signature captivating eyes. With a BFA in Spatial Art focused on Jewelry and Small Metal Arts, Becky spent a decade as a goldsmith and jewelry designer before shifting her creative focus to photography during the pandemic. Since 2022, she has blended her jewelry background’s precision and sparkle with AI artistry, crafting a futuristic yet playful aesthetic that merges exploration with refined creativity.
Who Gave You a Baby, United Kingdom
Who Gave You a Baby is a UK-based multimedia artist dissecting digital identity, surreal play, and the absurdities of AI-generated culture. Their work mutates fashion, portraiture, and body politics, twisting familiarity into something uncanny—hyperreal yet glitched, nostalgic yet alien. Through distorted proportions, warped human forms, and irreverent visual humor, they push AI as both a tool and a collaborator, questioning authorship and authenticity in a world where the synthetic and the organic collide.
Alena Stepanova, Kazakhstan
Alena Stepanova is a Kazakhstan-born, London-based AI fashion designer known for blending Central Asian heritage with cutting-edge technology. She made her debut at New York’s AI Fashion Week with a collection inspired by the nomadic spirit of Kazakhstan. Her work has been featured in Business of Fashion, L’Officiel Monaco, and the New York Post, and ELLE USA. Stepanova continues to redefine fashion’s future by artfully merging cultural narratives with digital innovation.
Arvida Byström, Sweden
Arvida Byström is a Swedish multidisciplinary artist whose work examines identity, feminism, and digital culture in an era shaped by technology. Through photography and digital media, she explores how AI and social media mediate self-image and reshape human interaction. Byström’s practice offers a nuanced critique of consent and digital culture, examining how online spaces shape identity and representation.
Lauren
Lauren, who goes by tide.in.noise, crafts ephemeral beach structures that exist between architecture and memory, reality and dream. Using AI as a tool for reimagination, she distills the essence of coastal landscapes into surreal, meditative compositions—portals where space, light, and absence converge. Her work transforms shorelines into quiet, liminal realms. Through digital interventions, she explores how architecture frames the in-between, inviting viewers to step into the uncanny stillness of the deep blue.
Susana Soares, Portugal
Susana Soares is Portugal-based creative and casting director with a meticulous eye for design, fashion and art. Susana is the creative force behind @ondineproject, where she blends photography, AI, fashion, and art through her own designs. As the casting director for FANG — a Europe-based digital agency and arts collective representing worldwide talent — she specializes in casting for models, stylists, MUAs and photographers.
Veronique van den Borre, Germany
Veronique van den Borre is a Germany-based AI artist whose work explores the idea that in reality, everything is constructed anyway, questioning authenticity and revealing how society, identity, and art are shaped, rather than inherent. Drawing inspiration from craftsmanship, her poetic AI-generated visuals oscillate between playful and raw, delivering unpredictable compositions that disturb, challenge, and captivate. With a background in prop and interior styling and a focus on culture and media education, Veronique invites viewers to rethink the boundaries between the organic, the artificial, and the constructed.
Mara Barros, Portugal
Mara Barros, Dona Mara online, is an Art Director and UX/UI designer with a background in photography, known for her fearless embrace of the surreal and magical. Her creative journey spans sketching, oil painting, and digital design, with AI becoming the latest addition to her ever-evolving artistic toolkit. This past year has marked an era of intense exploration and productivity, allowing her to create beautiful, strange and unique images.
Fia Jacobi, Berlin
Fia Jacobi is a Berlin-based AI artist, who crafts the surreal from puzzlement to horror. With a background steeped in art — her mother a painter, her father a writer and musician — Fia’s work reflects a lifelong creative journey. Her pieces dance between absurdity and introspection, illustrating her distinct perspective with absurdities, and her unique perspective.
Junie Lau, United Kingdom & China
Junie Lau is a London-and Shanghai-based multidisciplinary creative, film director, and production designer, known for crafting avant-garde visual narratives that merge AI with fashion films, music videos, and advertising. Her work explores virtual identity, digital humanities, and digital ontology, pushing the boundaries of creative expression through cutting-edge technology. Her AI shorts have screened at Tribeca, and she co-created the world’s first 90-minute AI-generated independent feature in 2024.
Yéil, Germany
Yéil is a visual artist and creative director using AI to craft immersive worlds that challenge conventional narratives of progress and innovation. Rooted in animism, syncretism, and global mythologies, her work reimagines the relationship between humans and their environment through striking, multi-layered storytelling, and playfully challenges the myths of innovation and progress.
Isabelle Bronzwaer, Netherlands
Isabelle Bronzwaer is an Amsterdam-based interior architect specializing in public spaces, with a portfolio spanning office and hospitality design. Her AI-driven creations reimagine vintage and midcentury design objects, offering fresh perspectives while honoring the artists and concepts that inspire her. Blending innovation with timeless aesthetics, Bronzwaer’s work bridges the past and future, preserving the essence of great design while pushing it into new creative territory.
X New Worlds, United Kingdom
X New Worlds, is a London-based artist and digital designer whose work blends AI, philosophy, and digital experimentation. Launched in 2023, X New Worlds explores surreal and absurd landscapes inspired by absurdism — the search for meaning in an indifferent universe — and surrealism’s dive into the unconscious mind. With a background in Philosophy, James draws from altered states like lucid dreaming and sleep paralysis to craft chaotic, dream-like worlds that challenge perceptions of reality and consciousness.
Carly Fridhandler, Canada
Carly Fridhandler, or Scorpion Sorbet, is a Montreal-based senior art director and AI artist who merges over a decade of advertising expertise with high-fashion aesthetics. By day, she collaborates with global brands like Adidas, Nivea, Walmart, Olay, Cirque du Soleil; by night, she crafts surreal AI-generated landscapes where the ethereal meets the editorial. Fridhandler’s work explores the tension between comfort and discomfort, pushing creative boundaries to evoke deep emotional resonance.
Lourdes Carcedo, Spain
Lourdes Carcedo (b. 1963, Burgos) is a Spanish photographer and visual artist exploring the intersections of identity, technology, and contemporary visual culture. With a background in psychology, photography and new media, she has exhibited widely across Spain and internationally, including at PhotoEspaña, CCCB Barcelona, and Paraty Em Foco in Brazil. Her work has been recognized with awards such as the Unicaja Biennial Prize, the Foconorte Photography Award, and artistic production grants from Fundación Telefónica and Castilla León. Carcedo’s photographs are part of prestigious collections.
Olya Golovko, Latvia
Olya Golovko is a multidisciplinary artist based in Riga, Latvia, whose AI art practice pushes the boundaries of creativity through neural networks. She represented Latvia at the international AI art exhibition PROMPTnations in Zlín, Czech Republic. Her AI-generated visuals have also graced the main posters for Riga Fashion Week’s 37th and 38th seasons (SS24 and FW24). With exhibitions spanning the Czech Republic, USA, and Latvia, and inclusion in the Women AI Artists Directory, Olya continuously explores neural networks to experiment with new forms and concepts, redefining contemporary art.
Ariadna Giménez, United Arab Emirates
Ariadna Giménez is a Dubai-based multihyphenate designer specializing in holistic design across interiors, graphic design, web, 3D, and AI. With a focus on creating immersive experiences that blend aesthetics with functionality, her work prioritizes well-being, efficiency, and connection. Ariadna’s philosophy centers on design as a tool for meaningful, impactful experiences that inspire and elevate.
Yasmin Gross, France
Yasmin Gross, known online as X Machina Flora, is a Paris-based multidisciplinary creative director blending AI, visual branding, and photography with a focus on sustainability, luxury, beauty, and art. A Parsons Paris graduate, she has worked with brands like Landor Paris and Betony Vernon, shaping bold visual identities across Europe. Using generative AI she pushes the boundaries of image-making, crafting dynamic visuals that merge innovation with timeless elegance.
Jeannette Bergen, Germany
Jeannette Bergen is an AI artist and freelance creative director with over 20 years of experience shaping brands through bold ideas and striking aesthetics. After starting her career at Springer & Jacoby in Hamburg and Amsterdam, she went on to lead campaigns and visual identities for global fashion, beauty, and lifestyle clients — earning 50+ national and international awards along the way. Now, Bergen merges technology with imagination in her AI art practice, crafting realistic yet fantastical worlds that have already attracted top-tier collaborations and fresh accolades.
Sandramaria Schweda, Germany
Sandramaria Schweda, also known as Tweda, is a Düsseldorf-based artist and designer exploring the limitless visual possibilities of AI. With a background in photography and communication design from Folkwang University of Arts, she spent years shaping national and international campaigns for top automotive and beauty brands. Now, she channels her expertise into AI-driven creativity, using technology as a tool for boundless visual storytelling and conceptual exploration.
Jessie Hughes is an awarded creative technologist, her works having exhibited most notably at Sundance, Cannes and the Tate Modern. Jessie is the Senior Creative Technologist at generative AI leader, Leonardo.Ai.
Hughes encourages talented and inspiring women AI artists to apply for Leonardo.Ai’s Creator Program — Leonardo’s premium network to access unreleased AI tooling for the crème de la crème of visual creativity; as well as WAIA’s Artist Directory—a meticulously curated showcase of leading women, non-binary and LGBTQ+ AI artists, celebrating their achievements while fostering opportunities for collaboration and discovery.