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Danny Brown

Danny Brown


Danny Brown is a first-generation American artist born in Los Angeles. Danny Brown’s artworks allocate an intrinsic connection between himself and the diverse communities occupying Los Angeles. Through his experience with graffiti, Brown became fluent in the use of color blocking and translating rougher imagery into something vibrant. The subculture of street art and encouragement through school programs led him to pursue his personal creative practice as a career.

Brown’s art coalesces youth culture, art history, fashion, and American consumerism and melds them all to create his unique style. Drawing on his background in fashion and a keen eye for color, design, and culture, he creates pieces that are both visually striking and deeply meaningful. Brown has quickly become one of the most sought-after urban artists working today. His works have been exhibited at prestigious galleries and museums around the country, including MoMA PS1 in New York City, where he has gained a following among curators, critics, and collectors alike.

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Bright colors meld themes of youth culture, art history, fashion, and American consumerism to create Danny Brown’s unique style. Instantly relatable and recognizable, Brown’s cathartic paintings represent contemporary issues for a demographic that is traditionally underrepresented in fine art.  His work speaks to young Americans and inspires a whole new generation of art collectors and admirers.

Brown is a first-generation American urban artist born in Los Angeles. His parents relocated their family from Oaxaca, Mexico in search of opportunity in the United States. Brown’s artworks coalesce the intrinsic connection between himself and the diverse communities occupying Los Angeles.

Traveling through the state of California with family, Brown began to tag locations with spray paint. Through his experience with graffiti, Brown became fluent in the use of color blocking and translating rougher imagery into something vibrant. The subculture of street art and encouragement through school programs led him to pursue his personal creative practice as a career.

Brown began his creative career in the fashion industry by helping streetwear designers in the Fairfax District of Los Angeles, California.  While attending Art Center College of Design in Pasadena for his BFA in Illustration, he noticed urban fashion gaining popularity and becoming mainstream.  Brown uses his interest in fashion as well as his superior knowledge of color, design, and culture as inspiration for his paintings. After losing friends to violence and incarceration, the loss of a family member to gang violence pushed Brown to use art as a source of therapy and to project a positive inspiring image for his community.

Since 2016, Daniel Brown has exhibited at MoMA PS1 in New York City, and various galleries in Los Angeles.

Bright colors meld themes of youth culture, art history, fashion, and American consumerism to create Danny Brown’s unique style. Instantly relatable and recognizable, Brown’s cathartic paintings represent contemporary issues for a demographic that is traditionally underrepresented in fine art.  His work speaks to young Americans and inspires a whole new generation of art collectors and admirers.

Brown is a first-generation American urban artist born in Los Angeles. His parents relocated their family from Oaxaca, Mexico in search of opportunity in the United States. Brown’s artworks coalesce the intrinsic connection between himself and the diverse communities occupying Los Angeles.

Traveling through the state of California with family, Brown began to tag locations with spray paint. Through his experience with graffiti, Brown became fluent in the use of color blocking and translating rougher imagery into something vibrant. The subculture of street art and encouragement through school programs led him to pursue his personal creative practice as a career.

Brown began his creative career in the fashion industry by helping streetwear designers in the Fairfax District of Los Angeles, California.  While attending Art Center College of Design in Pasadena for his BFA in Illustration, he noticed urban fashion gaining popularity and becoming mainstream.  Brown uses his interest in fashion as well as his superior knowledge of color, design, and culture as inspiration for his paintings. After losing friends to violence and incarceration, the loss of a family member to gang violence pushed Brown to use art as a source of therapy and to project a positive inspiring image for his community.

Since 2016, Daniel Brown has exhibited at MoMA PS1 in New York City, and various galleries in Los Angeles.

Exhibitions

2022   Affordable Art Fair New York, NY

2021   From A to B and Back Again, Artspace Warehouse, Los Angeles, CA

2020   Marginal Activities, Artspace Warehouse, Los Angeles, CA

2019   Quiet Please, 1700 Naud, Los Angeles, CA

Print Collection with Martial Arts and Design

Brand Identity, 33 North Studio, Pasadena

TV & FILM

ROAR, S1, Apple TV+

American Gigolo, Showtime

American Auto, S2, NBC

Dave, S3, FXX