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Lavan Wright is a multidisciplinary artist, illustrator, designer, and tattooer from New York, now based in Atlanta. His work moves across painting, drawing, tattooing, merchandise, character design, murals, and creative direction. With a background shaped by New York street culture, architecture, military service, and years of hands-on creative work, Lavan has built a practice rooted in storytelling, symbolism, and visual identity.
His journey as an artist began in childhood, inspired by watching his older cousin draw. What started with tracing and studying images grew into a lifelong relationship with art as a way to process emotion, understand self, and communicate ideas that words could not always hold. Over time, his creative language expanded across mediums, giving him the freedom to build worlds, characters, products, and visual systems that reflect his personal experiences and cultural influences.
Lavan’s work often centers on themes of identity, love, resilience, nostalgia, transformation, and community. His visual style blends clean linework, expressive characters, bold symbols, and emotional storytelling. Whether he is creating a painting, tattoo, clothing graphic, mural, or illustrated world, his goal is to make work that feels honest, recognizable, and alive.
As a creative director and designer, Lavan has contributed to projects across music, fashion, events, merchandise, and brand experiences. His experience includes illustration, campaign visuals, murals, activations, apparel design, and visual storytelling for artists, brands, and cultural spaces. As a tattoo artist, he brings the same intention into custom illustrative pieces that are personal to each client.
At the core of Lavan’s practice is a larger vision: to build creative studios that give artists, kids, and communities space to learn, create, connect, and grow. His work is about more than making images. It is about building a visual language that can live on walls, skin, clothing, books, products, and spaces.
CV / Exhibitions
Lavan Wright’s work has been featured through solo exhibitions, group shows, pop-ups, murals, and brand collaborations across New York, Atlanta, Miami, Brooklyn, and Philadelphia. His creative practice has connected with cultural brands and platforms including Amazon Music, Spotify, Adidas, Reebok, Revolt, Rap Caviar, Sprayground, Atlantic Records, and Ear Drummer Records.
Title | Exhibition Type | Year | Venue | City | State |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Lavan Wright: The Intro | Solo Exhibition | 2013 | Think Before You Ink | Long Island City | NY |
Lavan Wright Pop-Up | Solo Exhibition | 2015 | Art2Ink Tattoo Studio | Harlem | NY |
Cartoons and Cereal Art Show | Group Exhibition | 2015 | Image Gallery | Brooklyn | NY |
Juice Hip Hop Exhibition Festival | Group Exhibition | 2016 | Brooklyn | NY | |
NYFW with Fabolous | Collaboration | 2017 | Vinnies Styles | Brooklyn | NY |
Hendrick’s Gin Art Show | Group Exhibition | 2017 | Atlanta | GA | |
Cufflink Pop-Up Vol. 1 | Solo Exhibition | 2018 | 727 Create | Brooklyn | NY |
Live From the Trap Series | Group Exhibition | 2018 | Brooklyn / Miami / Philadelphia | NY / FL / PA | |
Rolling Loud Mural | Solo Mural Project | 2018 | Rolling Loud | Miami | FL |
Cufflink Pop-Up Vol. 2: Big Bad Wolf | Solo Exhibition | 2019 | Vinnies Styles | Brooklyn | NY |
Sacred Cufflink Art Installation | Solo Installation | 2019 | New York | NY | |
Caremore Inaugural Pack & Sip | Solo Event / Art Experience | 2019 | Brooklyn | NY | |
Bwrightous and Friends | Group Exhibition | 2021 | The Wxllxm | Atlanta | GA |
My Statement
My work is rooted in storytelling, symbolism, and the emotional weight of memory.
I create through painting, illustration, tattooing, design, and product work because each medium gives me a different way to speak. Some ideas need to live on canvas. Some feel better as a character. Some belong on skin, clothing, walls, or in the hands of people who connect with them. I see my practice as one connected language that moves through different forms.
A lot of my work comes from identity, transformation, love, nostalgia, and the process of becoming. I’m interested in the symbols people carry with them, the characters we create to protect ourselves, and the emotions that shape who we become. Hearts, wolves, angels, masks, flowers, and original characters show up in my work as reflections of strength, softness, survival, and change.
My style is influenced by the culture I grew up around, the cartoons and anime I watched, the music and fashion that shaped me, and the artists who showed me that character-based work can carry deep meaning. I like work that feels bold but still personal. I like pieces that feel clean, playful, emotional, and direct.
For me, art is a way to understand myself and connect with other people. It gives me space to process life, honor where I come from, and imagine what can be built next. I want the work to feel familiar even when it is new. I want people to see parts of themselves in the symbols, colors, characters, and stories.
My long-term vision is to build creative spaces where people can create freely, learn useful skills, and build community through art. Everything I make is part of that larger mission. The paintings, drawings, tattoos, products, murals, and characters are all pieces of a bigger world I’m building.
Lets Work!
For collaborations, commissions, tattoo projects, or custom creative work, feel free to reach out through the form. I’m open to building with brands, collectors, clients, and creatives who connect with the work and want to create something meaningful.