Danny Brown

Danny 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. Danny Brown's artworks allocate an intrinsic connection between himself and the diverse communities occupying Los Angeles.

Travelling 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 an encouragement through school programs lead 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 in 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.

Brown's art coalesces youth culture, art history, fashion and American consumerism and melds them all to create his unique style. Instantly relatable and recognizable, his cathartic paintings represent contemporary issues as well as a demographic that is traditionally underrepresented in fine art. His works speak to young Americans and inspire a whole new generation of art collectors and admirers.

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