Kim A. Larsen (b.1987, Norway) aka Sinnsykshit, is a Norwegian artist with a background in Graphc Design. Regularly receives commissions to paint walls and murals, and is represented by Oslo Nowhere Gallery. His work has been exhibited both in solo and group shows in Norway, France, Italy and Australia. Next to his artistic practice, Larsen is also the founder of the Norwegian urban art magazine SplitCity Magazine and cofounder of Urbant Verksted, an urban art workshop for youths.

While Larsen’s versatile practice alternates between mural art and acrylic painting, it is linked together by his vibrant color palette, the recurrent use of graffiti techniques, distinct black outlines and vibrant fill-ins, and the city-centered motifs he often revisits and reinvents in his expressive compositions. When viewed together, Larsen’s snapshots of urban life, which also bear an autobiographical component, tell the viewer an open-ended story that delves into the possibilities but also the harsh realities that lie beneath every city skyline.

With a background in Graphic Design, which he studied at Deakin University in Melbourne, Australia, from a young age Larson ventured into the world of street and graffiti art first in Oslo, where he faced several government restrictions, and then more openly in Melbourne, a mecca for the development of urban art and where graffiti was accepted and invited. In his school years, Larsen started creating wall works which initially took the form of heavily distorted and colorful faces intuitively constructed with spray paint which he constructed as graffiti instead of the traditional letters. He simply titled these faces as “Crazyyfaces” and has later explained them as portraits of his own frustration. However, after some time, Larsen started incorporating the city, often devoiced of the human presence and rendered in abstract notes, as its main subject viewing it as a “parallel universe” where to nest his varied real-life and imaginary motifs. During this time, Larsen also came up with his distinctive moniker, SinnSykShit, as a means to refer to his creative vein while at the same time revealing a dose of youthful irreverence.