About

Trace Wild is a contemporary visual artist whose electric works collide street art, pop surrealism, and raw storytelling. Known for vibrant neon palettes, bold characters, and cosmic motifs, Wild’s pieces invite viewers into dreamlike worlds where urban grit and imagination meet. A Minnesota native shaped by both triumph and hardship, from homelessness to hustling art on the light rail, murals in every neighborhood he lives by “Make it work.” Every brushstroke, every story he tells, is proof that he does.

I came up where winters cut skin
and silence could swallow a name.
Minnesota made me
frostbitten streets,
light rail beats,
where I sold color just to stay warm.

I’ve slept beside spray cans and static noise,
learned to dream in neon tongues
cosmic loops, cracked halos,
faces built from broken signs,
voices stitched in fire and chrome.

My canvas is asphalt and ache,
a thousand tags deep in survival.
Each line a scar,
each color a fight
to turn hunger into vision.

This isn’t paint its pulse.
Pop surreal, street gospel,
the prayer of someone who never had enough
but made it look like too much to ignore.

I don’t just make art.
I make it work.
Because the world gave me no frame
so I carved one out of noise,
and filled it with the truth.


TRACE.