Larkin Grimm (They/Them) is a NYC based artist that works as a musician, songwriter and visual artist that takes an outsider’s perspective on American culture, late-stage capitalism, gender, and sexuality. Their work explores political violence and government oppression through a lens of queerness and disability, often chronicling the lives of outsiders and the masks they wear to survive. Larkin’s ongoing series of portraits, titled Juissance follows the adventures of disabled, queer, and trans burlesque dancers and sex workers as they find moments of private joy in public performance. Their most recent series of abstract paintings, titled Trust, used acrylic paint, destroyed U.S. currency, and precious metals to question value.

Larkin was born in Memphis, Tennessee and raised in Atlanta, GA in the New-Age anti-capitalist commune The Holy Order of Mysterion Agape Nous Sophia. Their parents are neurodivergent artists/musicians who took a vow of poverty in order to live in a hippie-monastic environment, where they found the supportive community, they needed to function in society and raise a family. The Grimm family lived in this cult until the Republican Moral Majority/ Satanic Panic of the late 80s led to the violent destruction of the utopian social experiments of the 1960s. While they avoided the tragic fates of other spiritual communities like Jonestown, Waco, and The Move, their community of over 20 years was infiltrated by the FBI and underwent a mass conversion to Orthodox Christianity in order to be removed from the FBI’s cult watch list and keep their families safe from government interference.

Larkin went on to study art at Yale University and toured with their band across the United States and Europe for many years, recording and producing 7 studio albums of original music. Larkin was an artist-in-residence at Frank Lloyd Wright's school of Architecture at Taliesin West and at La Ferme du Biéreau in Louvain La Neuve, Belgium.