Travis Fish (b.1989, Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin) attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and has exhibited both nationally and internationally. His paintings have been included in exhibitions at Jupiter Contemporary, Miami; Gana Art, Seoul; Carl Kostyál, Stockholm; Duve, Berlin; Superzoom, Paris; CANADA, New York; and Eric Firestone Gallery, East Hampton; among others. He currently lives and works in Los Angeles, CA.
Defining himself as a ‘sweater-obsessed’, Fish typically paints branded sweaters, sport hoodies and artist shirts. Whimsical and distorted, his signature large-scale acrylic paintings often evoke the fabric of garments, playing on the intersection between art and fashion.
Interested in the way this specific item of clothing functions in society and often appropriating paintings by other artists of his generation as signifiers, the sweaters and hoodies he chooses are not random. Travis Fish playfully but meaningfully monumentalises and transforms them into icons in their own right.
