Welcome to the world of Happy Grave—an artist whose work erupts from the fringes of outsider art, psychedelic horror, and underground culture with unrelenting intensity.

For over two decades, Happy Grave has carved a singular path through the art world with a relentless output of disturbing beauty. His work—both visceral and hallucinatory—has been exhibited in over 100 group shows across North America and Europe, from the DIY grit of Detroit’s Tangent Gallery to the refined walls of Switzerland's art scene. In 2013, his solo exhibition Hell As A Room at the Fun House Gallery cemented his role as a disruptive force in contemporary art.

Grave’s style, often dubbed GRAVE-ISM, defies categorization. Fusing elements of dark surrealism, cartoon horror, glitch aesthetics, and raw emotional narrative, he creates worlds where trauma, absurdity, and beauty coexist. A prolific self-taught artist, his output spans over a dozen books of poetry, collage, and subversive storytelling—including the semi-mythical Safari Into The Underworld and the cult-favorite Destroyed series.

Happy Grave's influence has echoed throughout visual and underground scenes alike—his visual language borrowed, reinterpreted, and unapologetically replicated by a generation of younger artists. He has been featured in Girls and Corpses Magazine, XFUNS, Revue Métèque, and The Best Horror of the Year, and his art has graced record covers, anthologies, and even paranormal autobiographies.

To encounter Happy Grave's work is to confront the uncomfortable and the ecstatic all at once. This is not art for galleries alone—this is art for the haunted, the ecstatic, and the awake. Welcome to the chaos.