About

James Dillon Wright aka Dillon Boy (b. May 29, 1979) is a contemporary artist, graphic designer, toy designer, and illustrator who emerged from the subculture of street art. Dillon’s style combines attitude branding, advertising, and pop culture.

Dillon Boy is a charismatic artist who effortlessly combines colorful spray paint, ink doodles, cut stencils, paper collage and soulful subjects with virtuosic creativity. He wanders the planet with his briefcase, a brush and an arsenal of artwork, exhibiting from the US to Europe.

My artwork is everything I want and the sum of what I give. It is everything I am and everything I am not. It is my backbone and my instability, my insecurity and my ego, my uncertainty and my optimism. It reveals my fears, obsessions, and beliefs. It contains my yesterday, my reflection, and my life. It is my passion, my history, my hunger, and my indulgence. My art is where I’ve been, where I’m headed, where I need to be, and where I shouldn’t go. It embodies a balance of what I’ve seen, heard, touched, smelled, and dreamed of. It has a heart-beat. It’s a work in progress, an evolution, a movement, and remains free of limitations. It’s the beginning and the end of a transition, and so much more than a perspective. Art is the truest form of freedom known to man.

I’m from all over the world – currently from Italy – I was born and raised in Phoenix, Arizona. During graphic design school I moved to Las Vegas, Nevada in a great effort to escape hell, not knowing I was just driving right into it. In the beginning, it was about breaking free from the “stand still” position I was in and shoving myself into some sort of accomplished individual. I came from a “you can do anything in this life if you put your mind to it” mentality and that was the foundation for everything I did… and everything I do.