HryanskIm

Hryanskim (김성문) is a Korean-American artist born in Syracuse, New York. Most of his childhood was spent going between the United States and South Korea. He graduated from the School of Visual Arts in 2017 with a BFA in Illustration. He currently resides in Ljubljana, Slovenia.

Hryanskim playfully reimagines the animal kingdom as a mirror for human behavior, culture, and folly. Drawing inspiration from pop surrealism and narrative illustration, he creates vibrant, detailed tableaux where creatures inhabit worlds both familiar and fantastical. Each scene becomes a fable—humorous, critical, and sometimes unsettling. By blending natural imagery with symbols of consumerism, subculture, and artifice, He explores the tension between instinct and affectation, wildness and domestication. Through these anthropomorphic portraits, he invites viewers to reflect on the strange theater of human life as seen through animal eyes—where the boundaries between reality and satire dissolve into color, texture, and imagination.