Michael Reeder's Fragmented Ego Portraits

Michael Reeder creates hyper-realistic portraits that dissolve into flat geometries and bright colors, blending skate culture, graffiti, and academic painting. His figures combine skin with skeletons, shadows, masks, and graphic planes, questioning authenticity in a symbol-saturated world. Reeder's work appears at festivals like SHINE and in magazines such as Hi-Fructose and Le Petit Voyeur. He produces murals, canvases, prints, and installations from his base in Los Angeles, collaborating with brands like Santa Cruz, New Balance, and Specialized. His art explores the fragile space of contemporary identity, between the self we show and what we hide.