I’m Jimmy Groen — Jimmy11 — a self taught  artist and outsider (he/him/they, boygender).

My work comes from growing up in a place where who I was supposed to be got messed with in ways I couldn’t fight back against. My gender of birth  was forcibly pushed out of me and my life and work is mostly about reclaiming my original gender. 

Drawing became the only place where all of that could exist without getting shut down. It’s where the stuff I can’t say out loud shows up anyway. 

Mixed media works for me because my head doesn’t stay in one lane. Memory, dissociation, identity — they all overlap and glitch. Often I’m working with the creative child-  identities Tim and Alex, making special art in a mix of identity and age. 

Every piece I make is me,  refusing to disappear, refusing to let someone else decide who I am. Sharing it feels like a win — like proof that I’m still here, and I get to define myself now.