About Fyo Badkhen

Fyo Badkhen graduated with a BA in Studio Art at Denison University in December 2020. With a focus on illustration, Fyo’s work exists at a smaller scale, composed of surreal, dreamlike images. Using pencil and pen ink as a medium, occasionally dipping into color ink brushes and paint, Fyo uses their experience with dreams, horror, beauty, gender, and mental illness to guide their work, crafting detailed and fantastical drawings. Fyo is inspired by dreams, storytelling, and day-to-day fantasies, living in their own head a majority of the time. Fyo is inspired by other artists who create fantastical work tied to real-world experience, such as Gustave Dore, Fahamu Pecou, Cai Guo-Qiang, and Jerome Tiunayan, and continues training to create even more evocative images.