LA artist David Choe is a muralist and graphic artist whose work adorns walls from LA to Vietnam. With influences as diverse as comic book culture, gothic art, impressionism and the surreal, Choe is known as much for his exaggerated vulgarity as his aesthetic sense.

David Choe’s first solo show was at Double Rainbow, a small ice cream shop on Melrose Avenue. The show was meant to run for a month but stayed up for 2 years, constantly changing after pieces sold better than the ice cream.

His self-published award-winning graphic novels, Slow Jams and Bruised Fruit introduced diverse groups of people to museum art, and alternatively to the graphic novel genre.

Some of David Choe’s earlier work can be found in issues of Hustler, Raygun, Vice and Juxtapoz.