Ciara Gaglio, the creative force behind Moonlight Media, is a multidisciplinary artist and designer known for her surreal, vintage-inspired aesthetic that blends the nostalgic with the unexpected. Her work explores the tension between beauty and decay, elegance and rebellion—transforming familiar imagery into something haunting, bold, and unforgettable.
With a background in graphic design, photography, analog collage, and painting, Ciara seamlessly combines traditional and digital techniques to create richly textured compositions. She draws inspiration from antique aesthetics, retro-futurism, and the eerie romance of forgotten eras, merging old-world craftsmanship with modern surrealism. Whether working with hand-cut paper, paint, a camera lens, or digital tools, she thrives in crafting layered narratives that feel both timeless and cutting-edge.
Her artistic range also extends into photography, where she explores surreal compositions through the lens. She previously released a sold-out NFT collection of underwater photography, capturing ethereal, dreamlike moments suspended in time.
Based in New York City, Ciara has exhibited internationally, with her work featured in NYC, Miami, Las Vegas, Portugal, Dubai, Barcelona, and Paris. As a lifelong artist and part of the NFT art scene since 2021, she continues to push boundaries, crafting digital and physical worlds that exist in the space between memory and dream.
Ciara’s distinct, surreal vision comes to life through her Etsy shop and NFT collections, where she offers prints, apparel, and statement art pieces that are bold, beautiful, and always a little mysterious.
“I create art that feels like a forgotten memory from a dream—familiar, yet strange. Beautiful, yet a little unsettling.”
