DISTORT.

Combining classical training with the intense creative energy of graffiti, DISTORT has impacted the streets and galleries alike. Now living in Jersey City, DISTORT earned a BFA from the University of Pennsylvania and a Certificate in Painting from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. Following this period, he developed a body of work combining sculptural installation and painting. In 2016, DISTORT presented these now-iconic “scrolls” and “shields” in a solo exhibition at the Works on Paper Gallery in Philadelphia. Since then, has exhibited extensively in the Tri-state Area and completed murals in Miami, Istanbul, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, and New York, as well as locations across Northern New Jersey. He has two projects, flanking the Holland Tunnel, one of which is one of the largest murals by a single artist in New Jersey. DISTORT continues to create challenging work inspired by his admiration of classicism and the intensity of the present.