Harrison Gilman is a Los Angeles–based painter whose work bridges the worlds of film, art history, and contemporary painting. A graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts with a BFA in Filmmaking, alongside minors in Art History and the Business of Media, Gilman first turned to painting during his years in film school. What began as an exploration soon became a full commitment: by the time he graduated, he had already been accepted into his first group exhibition.
Gilman’s bold and expressive paintings quickly caught the attention of curators and collectors. His work debuted at the 2018 We Rise Art Fair in Los Angeles, shown alongside Shepard Fairey and other leading voices in the LA art scene. Just one year later, he held his first solo exhibition at Galerie Tangerine in Nashville, TN. Since then, his paintings have been featured in exhibitions at Artspace Warehouse in Los Angeles and in galleries across the United States, where they continue to resonate with collectors seeking affordable original art with emotional impact.
Speaking of his artwork, Gilman says: “[My paintings] are landscapes and portraits of my subconscious. Visual representations of my subatomic particles, my dark matter. I paint because it helps me see these things buried beneath the surface of my mind. It’s so easy to get caught up in the material world and all the distractions and what we think we’re feeling and what we should be feeling versus whatever is actually going on . . . Painting takes me back to the source. My paintings are manifestations of myself, my experiences, sensations, and basically every little thing. They’re more accurate than a mirror.”
Gilman’s art combines raw immediacy with layered meaning, creating works that feel both intimate and universal. His paintings are now part of private collections in Los Angeles, New York, Nashville, Scottsdale, Toronto, and the United Kingdom, valued for their accessibility as much as for their depth of vision.
