OCEAN ART Manifesto

For Those Who Create With, For, and By the Ocean.

Fish skeleton floating beneath a living fish, evoking the fragile balance between life and extinction.

Ocean Art is not a trend. It is a return.

A return to the living intelligence of water, our prime cells — as presence, as partner, as pulse.

We do not extract.

We collaborate. We immerse.

We honor.

We are artists who create with salt on our skin, tides in our breath, and oceans in our blood.

We listen to waves before we speak of beauty. We let currents shape more than the composition — they shape the gesture itself. To be Ocean Art Certified is to uphold a sacred standard:

That the sea is not backdrop, it is a co-creator.

That art must not only represent nature — it must reverberate with it.

That healing, creation, and ecological consciousness can be one single act.

We do not claim ownership - We offer stewardship.

Each certified work is a signature of united elevation — not domination.

It is an imprint of vibrational resonance, not ego.

We believe in slow gestures, deep time, and beauty that breathes with life.

Ocean Art is a movement. A frequency.

A collective of creators, artist, collectors, designers, innovator who swim across disciplines, mediums, and shores —united by a single current:

To make art that restores. To make art that remembers. To make art that returns us to the water.

Welcome to the Ocean Art Movement.

This is our tide. as much as it can be yours : come with us.

Discover some of the Pioneers of Ocean Art

Robert Smithson

(1938–1973) – Creator of Spiral Jetty (1970), a land art piece that engaged the boundary between land and water (Great Salt Lake, Utah).

© Photo courtesy of Estate of Robert Smithson/VAGA, New York, NY. Courtesy Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo.

Betty Beaumont

(b. 1946 – d. 2023) – Known for Ocean Landmark (1980), an underwater sculpture using eco-materials to create an artificial reef, submerged off Fire Island, NY.

Photo courtesy of Caifornia State University, Northridge University Advancement Marketing Communications

Nancy Holt

(1938–2014) – Land artist and conceptual thinker, often worked with site and elemental forces (e.g., Sun Tunnels), her sensibility helped bridge the move toward environmental and immersive art.

Ana Mendieta

(1948–1985) – Though not classified as Ocean Art per se, her earth-body works and water-immersed performances deeply influenced ecological and body-based practices central to Ocean Art today.

Join the OCEAN ART Movement, Get Certified

It’s a living practice where the sea is collaborator, not backdrop.

If you’re an artist, curator, gallery, or museum — and your work honors the ocean’s rhythms, protects its life, and lets its forces shape your creation — you’re already part of the current.

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