Connor Meager (b. 1999, Detroit, MI) is a multidisciplinary artist, graphic designer, actor, and curator whose practice reflects a restless and expansive creative energy. His artistic journey began at the age of 13, when he first encountered Photoshop and began translating his visual imagination into digital form. What started as early experimentation evolved into a disciplined engagement with graphic design and a sustained investigation of visual language.
Raised within Detroit's decaying industrial landscape and vibrant graffiti culture, Meager developed a lasting fascination with the intersection of street art and digital media. His graphic work-often grounded in halftones, dithering, and bitmapping-became the conceptual and technical foundation for his transition into fine art. This shift was marked by his first painting: a stippled portrait of Jesus Christ composed entirely of meticulously placed dots, revealing his ability to merge precision with emotional resonance.
Meager's physical works extend directly from his digital origins, functioning as tangible manifestations of virtual experimentation. Employing unconventional tools such as dripsticks, spray paint, paint markers, shipping labels, and chemical sprayers, he merges the grit of street culture with the discipline of graphic design. His practice collapses boundaries between street art, fine art, and digital process, forming a unified and highly tactile visual language.
Conceptually, Meager's stippling technique mirrors his broader philosophy. Each mark represents a fragment-people, memories, actions-that gains meaning only through accumulation. Up close, individual elements appear isolated and insignificant; from a distance, they coalesce into cohesive images. Through this lens, his work becomes both process and meditation, reflecting on how small moments, gestures, and decisions collectively shape lived experience.