Travis Fish was born in 1989 in Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin and attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Fish’s practice is most simply described as one driven by fandom. A devout listener of the American hip hop trio Migos, he started out making portraits of its three members—Offset, Quavo, and Takeoff—in 2018. This became a repetitive and one might even say obsessive process: scouring social media fan pages and the internet for new images of the group, he would paint one member after the other on repeat. To do so, Fish works on the floor, bouncing across his canvases, rendering each member’s visage with the quick fluid movements of his extra wide brushstrokes in watered-down acrylic.