Lukas Bentel
Lukas Bentel is the Chief Creative Director of MSCHF––a conceptual art collective and brand known for its interventions that engage fashion, art, tech and capitalism across a variety of mediums.
With MSCHF, Bentel has had success producing a wide range of digitally native artworks and viral products, from “Satan Shoes,” sneakers created for Lil Nas X to “Severed Spots”, a project that destroyed a Hirst artwork by democratizing it. His works have been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, TIME, VICE, CNN, The Washington Post, Vanity Fair, The Guardian, ArtNet, the BBC, and many more international publications.
From 2014-2018, Bentel co-led Hello Velocity, an artist group and studio whose creations include “Bitelabs”, “The McMass Project” and “Genecoin”. Fast Co awarded these three projects ""The Best Art on the Internet”.
He graduated from RISD and Brown University with degrees in Furniture Design and Multimedia Electronic Music Experiments.