Mr. James is a Los Angeles-based multimedia artist and storyteller whose work draws from the questions that lingered after childhood—and the joy of following them into new forms. Through painting, video, and collage, he creates bold, color-saturated works that merge pop culture, folk art, and personal myth into something distinctly his own. At the heart of his practice are the Billies: a cast of characters who explore life’s big, recurring questions with a kind of innocent wisdom.

Each piece invites the viewer into a world that feels both familiar and quietly cosmic—where queerness isn’t a subject but a way of seeing, and where simple symbols hold deep emotional and philosophical weight. Drawing from his time in fashion, his love of storytelling, and a deep reverence for transformation, Mr. James builds not just images but joyful cosmologies—spaces for reflection, wonder, and the magic of becoming.

His work is a tenderly human response to the strangeness of being alive.