Greg Ito
Greg Ito
Greg Ito’s (b. 1987, Los Angeles) highly stylized, visually flat dream-like paintings present portals to an alternative world, often seen through meticulous renderings of keyholes and windows, reference a personal lexicon of symbols and imagery—burning candles,snakes, moons and suns through which he inhabits a state of lucid dreaming in which daily life dilates into fantasy. Ito, who received his BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute, has developed a signature cinematic style that combines moments of drama with a distinct, vivid color palette. These scenes often explore states of change and respond to moments of upheaval, from the ongoing climate crisis to Ito’s Japanese-American family history.
You can see how he translated his style into a coloring book page in Between the Lines: An RxART Coloring Book by Contemporary Artists – Volume 9. 
Ito’s work has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions including at Institute of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA; Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA; Maki Gallery, Tokyo, Japan; Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles, CA; SPURS Gallery, Beijing, China; Lyles and King, New York, NY; Jeffrey Deitch, New York; NY and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA), San Francisco, CA. Ito’s work is included in the permanent collections of the Institute of Contemporary Art Miami, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA; and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). Ito lives and works in Los Angeles, CA.