HIJACK was born in Los Angeles in 1992, into a city and a family where art wasn’t hanging on walls — it was going up on them. Growing up alongside some of the most influential figures in street art, he absorbed early the idea that a painting didn’t need a gallery to mean something; a wall, a street sign, a passing moment would do just fine.
He started young, stencilling images across L.A. in his teens — quick, sharp, funny, pointed. Work that didn’t wait to be discovered. That directness never left. What changed was the surface, the scale, and the ambition.
Now working primarily in oil and spray paint on die-cut wooden panels, HIJACK makes paintings that physically break out of their own frames. The scenes are rendered with near-photographic precision — golf courses, leisure landscapes, the textures of aspiration — but the support beneath them is shaped, cut, irregular. The painting escapes. That’s the whole point.
His 2022 solo presentation at Art Miami sold out. His 2019 show Ecolibrium in Malibu brought ecological urgency to the same hyperrealist language. He has shown in Paris, London, Tokyo, and across the United States. His work is held in private collections worldwide.
HIJACK is based in Los Angeles.