Brendan Donnelly

B.1980, Connecticut.

Lives and Works in Los Angeles, CA.

Brendan Donnelly is an interdisciplinary artist and archivist working at the nexus of being both an aesthete and perpetuator of American subculture in all of its ephemera, nestled at the intersection of fine art and lowbrow culture. Donnelly’s tireless work ethic and simultaneous obsession with various American subcultures and pop culture has culminated in a collection of ephemera that illustrates his specific cosmology.

Over his course of 20 year career as an artist, Donnelly has worked in a variety of mediums from apparel design, graphic design, animation, Illustration, art direction, creative direction, and advertising. As apparel designer since 2003, he’s collaborated with a long list of clothing brands that sell his art and designs on a worldwide retail market. Donnelly has worked with touring musicians and bands creating artwork for album covers and tour merch. As a graphic designer and illustrator, Donnelly has worked with and collaborated with active wear and board-sport brands.

Donnelly’s publication Orion, Cults That Kill, and I Wanted To Be An Actor But I Could Never Remember My Lines are in Museum bookshops (MOCA, Tate Modern, Hauser + Wirth) and in select bookshops through out the U.S. and Europe (Arcana books, These Days, Des Pair, Skylight books, to name a few)

His artwork has been exhibited in solo and group shows since in Los Angeles, New York and Japan since 2003 to present day.