Sampling from a multitude of sources Michael Pybus reimagines contemporary culture by remixing the icons, brands and franchises which permeate our lives, creating Frankenstein hybrids which appear reassuringly familiar yet decidedly warped, blurring the boundaries between high, low and everything in-between.

Pybus explores the manipulation of history, society & communication by our omnipresent virtual technologies. Through offline analogue mediums such as painting he reconfigures our visual environment much like one may augment with smartphone filters, altering images to question how we interpret & project hierarchal values onto individual expression, belief systems & behaviour as well as the cultural & consumer iconography we define ourselves with. He investigates & at times pokes fun at what we accept real & authentic. From his identity as an artist - the clichéd ‘original’ - to the narratives we curate though our consumer choices, online personas & aesthetics.

Though his sardonic wit & iconoclastic approach he remixes contemporary iconography into darkly comic uncanny facsimiles that reflect upon the extremities of our heightened times. Together yet isolated, violent yet celebratory his work decodes the absurdity of our overstimulated society as it struggles to find its footing at the dawn of the 21st Century.

Michael Pybus (1982, UK) lives & works in Manchester, (UK). He earned a BA in Fine Arts from Goldsmiths College 2004 and an MA in Sculpture from the Royal College of Art 2008, London(UK). Recent solo exhibitions include: ‘Vampire Hope’ PRP, Dallas (USA), ’CORPORATE SCULPTURES’ D Contemporary, London (UK) 2021, ‘PROBLEMATIC PAINTER’ Tatjana Pieters Ghent, (BE) 2020, ‘FLAGGED’ it’s that gallery Kentucky, (USA) 2019, ‘soft play’ Lungley, London(UK) 2018 - ‘I’m sure they have very different paintings on their own walls’, Jelato Love, Palma (ES) 2018 - ‘HIVE MIND’ Jonathan Hopson, Houston (USA) 2017 - ‘Pretend the world is funny and forever‘, Amor, Mexico City (MEX) 2017, HOLLOW, Thierry Goldberg Projects, NYC (US) 2017 - ‘PEAK HUMAN’, Depart Foundation, Los Angeles (US) 2017, -‘CRUMPLE ZONE’, Tatjana Pieters, Ghent (BE) 2016 - ‘Karaoke’, Carl Kostyal Stockholm (SE) 2016, - If it works, it’s obsolete’, Johannes Vogt NYC (USA) 2015.

His work is included in the collections of Takashi Murakami (JP), Zabludowicz (UK), Philippos Tsangrides (GR), Popov (RUS) and can be found in private collections in the USA, UK, Brazil, Ireland, Sweden, Netherlands, Malta, Belgium, Greece, Germany, Spain, Taiwan, France, Switzerland, Italy, New Zealand, Canada, Australia & China.