The artist
behind the grin

Jimi Grins is an artist and character designer — born and raised in New Zealand, now painting from Hawai'i. Made in the Pacific, start to finish.

Raised on cartoons, anime and graffiti, he builds big, dense paintings packed with characters — canvases you can stare at for an hour and still find something new. The work has gone from gallery walls to city murals to an exclusive wallpaper collection in the UK.

Next: puzzles, prints, and collabs that put the characters on new things.