Jake Osmun is a 27-year-old multidisciplinary artist based in New York, New York, whose work covers a vast array of creative synergies and executions of post-internet punk. Osmun’s initial background starts at the center of a cultural zeitgeist in the Chicago underground music scene of the 2010s, cutting his teeth under various pseudonyms as a photographer, director, and editor for several heavy hitters.
Born in a transitory generation, Jake’s deepest influences are an amalgamation of the ever-evolving meme culture and keynotes of nostalgia from the dawn of the internet age. The radical and experimental style evolutions from the Y2K era to now gave birth to a slew of surreal and absurd core memories which are the key components of Osmun’s work. Osmun creates and combines using a wide variety of mediums; drawing, painting, digital rendering, animation, and analog glitch tools to create his oeuvre, all to record this abstracted shared experience of all children of the internet.