LIVE
NOW PAINTING — STUDIO OPEN BY APPOINTMENT+INQUIRIES — tijobear@gmail.com+NEW WORKS DROPPING 2026+ALL CANVAS · ACRYLIC · OIL STICK · SPRAY+NOW PAINTING — STUDIO OPEN BY APPOINTMENT+INQUIRIES — tijobear@gmail.com+NEW WORKS DROPPING 2026+ALL CANVAS · ACRYLIC · OIL STICK · SPRAY+NOW PAINTING — STUDIO OPEN BY APPOINTMENT+INQUIRIES — tijobear@gmail.com+NEW WORKS DROPPING 2026+ALL CANVAS · ACRYLIC · OIL STICK · SPRAY+
// Press Kit

tijo.

Tijo Gaucher · Painter · Hong Kong
// Bio

tijo (Tijo Gaucher) is a contemporary painter based in Hong Kong, working in acrylic, oil stick, and crayon on canvas. The practice sits within the neo-expressionist lineage — figurative, symbolic, text-laden, openly indebted to Jean-Michel Basquiat — but is distinguished by its preoccupation with the shadow side of the human experience and a parallel output of physical talismans and 3D-printed totems. “I paint death,” he writes, “but with a smile.”

Mo-KNEE by tijo (2026), 120 × 160 cm acrylic and crayon on canvas. A neo-expressionist painting featuring a white skull labeled MONEY at the top, a skeleton torso with anatomical labels (HEART, KIDNEY, RIB, HIP, BONE), a red heart at center, and two flanking figures rendered in ochre and yellow. Brown earth-tone background with scattered text and binary numbers.
// Featured

Mo-KNEE

Acrylic and crayon on canvas
120 × 160 cm · 2026

A skeleton with money in its mouth — and a heart still beating underneath. What we worship vs. what we are actually made of.

// Selected Works
Apophis by tijo (2026), 160 × 120 cm acrylic and oil stick on canvas. A neo-expressionist landscape painting on a black ground, depicting a dollar-sign apartment building on the left, a hairy GOAT figure in the center with the word "Goat" inscribed, and an orange-robed figure with raised arms and a horned purple-pink mask on the right. Includes the text 17 KM/S, MPH, 500, and 3,000,000 — a reference to the near-Earth asteroid 99942 Apophis.
Apophis
160 × 120 cm · 2026
Water Wars by tijo (2026), 140 × 120 cm acrylic and oil stick on canvas. A neo-expressionist portrait of a green-skinned figure with mismatched eyes (a yellow frame and a red frame), a yellow dollar-sign chain wrapping the head like a noose, and a red WATER WAR name-tag taped across the mouth. The figure wears a purple military uniform with SPECIES stencilled on the shoulder; NATO yellow-and-black prison bars at the chest. Background dense with text including IN GOD WE TRUST, A.I., LIGHT, HUMAN, currency symbols, year dates, and mathematical operators.
Water Wars
140 × 120 cm · 2026
Mr. Happy by tijo (2025), 80 × 60 cm acrylic and oil stick on canvas. A neo-expressionist portrait of a yellow-orange skull with mismatched square-framed eyes, a red tongue, and a wide white grin with the word FAMOUS spelt across the teeth. Background is a blue wall on the left and a green wall covered in dollar signs on the right. A pale hand reaches up from below, and a curling pink and white snake-like form with a red heart sits at the bottom of the canvas.
Mr. Happy
80 × 60 cm · 2025
// Themes

Death, totems, talismans, alchemy, the collective unconscious, plant medicines, primordial symbols, the shadow side, money, mortality, capitalism, inheritance.

// Influences

Jean-Michel Basquiat · neo-expressionism · graffiti and street vocabulary · ancient symbolic traditions.

// Contact
tijobear@gmail.com
Exhibitions · Acquisitions · Commissions · Talismans
// Online
Portfolio: tijo.art
Saatchi Art: saatchiart.com/tijo