Honor Titus

Rather than go to art school, the musician turned painter apprenticed with his idols. Now he’s Frieze’s brightest star
Bridget Arsenault, Air Mail, 9 October 2021

“I think painting kind of chose me,” Honor Titus tells me from his home in Los Angeles.

A musician turned artist, Titus, 31, grew up in New York City, surrounded by sound. His father, Andres “Dres” Titus, was one half of the seminal rap group Black Sheep. His own musical career began as the front man of the cheeky Brooklyn punk-rock band Cerebral Ballzy. (A rib on their label’s Web site notes the musicians took influence from “Black Flag, Dead Boys, Bad Brains, and Thrasher magazine—as well as pizza and beer.”)