BRANDON BOYD

Brandon Boyd’s work as a singer, songwriter, both as a solo artist and with his platinum-selling rock band, Incubus, is well documented and universally acclaimed. His other life’s work -- that of a painter -- has been garnering increasing attention and devoted audiences of its own for over a decade.

Brandon has published three books of his visual art: White Fluffy Clouds (2003), From the Murks of the Sultry Abyss (2007), and So the Echo (2013). Among dozens of book signings, group and solo exhibitions, special collaborative projects, and philanthropic arts, Brandon has showed a mixture of both expressive and abstract paintings, prints, and drawings in international cities including Amsterdam, Cape Town, London, Paris, Rome, Zurich and across the U.S. in all major cities such as Austin, Las Vegas, Miami and Seattle. He has participated in various art fairs such as Pop Austin, Art Miami, Scope Art Fair, LA Art Show and others.In 2019 he launched his ‘Opti-Mystic’ memory game based upon his popular original art series, Portals and held launch events and signing appearances in Chicago, Los Angeles, New York and at Soho House Malibu. 

Boyd was a natural artist from childhood, and in fact his dream to attend art school after college once sat within his grasp, scholarships and all. He ended up signing a record deal instead. Through the next 25 whirlwind years, he never stopped painting and drawing, coming to view the creative processes of musicianship and visual artistry as both complementary and intertwined.

The music is intellectual, it tickles and frustrates me; it’s untouchable and fascinating. The art is intuitive, more like just breathing. It’s just a part of me.
— Brandon Boyd