Vinne Hager 'Trucker Hats' Available

Artist: Chris Austin
Title: Pasture Gazing/Mythical Time Zone/Middle Of The Night
Medium: Hand Painted Trucker Hat
Size: SnapBacks
Edition: 5 (Each Color)
Price: $135

Vinnie Hager is a multidisciplinary American artist and designer from Baltimore, Maryland, known for his distinctive style that bridges the gap between physical and digital mediums. Born in 1996, his artistic journey began with a childhood surrounded by art and an early, almost addictive, inclination towards drawing and doodling. Hager developed a unique visual language using a vocabulary of lines, shapes, characters, and symbols that connect in intricate patterns, resembling a complex jigsaw puzzle. This personal iconography, which includes recognizable elements like envelopes, flowers, and eyes alongside abstract forms, is a constant motif in his work and can be adapted across various scales and surfaces.

Hager earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) in 2021, and his work is deeply autobiographical, often serving as a therapeutic outlet to process significant personal losses, including the passing of his parents and brother between 2016 and 2019. His artistic practice, which is influenced by internet culture and nostalgia for skateboarding aesthetics, fluidly combines traditional drawings and paintings with new technologies, including high profile NFT collections like "Letters" and the deeply personal "Diary" project.

Hager has transitioned his art into numerous commercial and public spheres, moving beyond traditional paper and canvas to home decor, apparel, and large-scale architectural public art activations. His work has appeared on a billboard in Times Square and in group exhibitions at various galleries and museums, including the Washington County Museum of Fine Arts and Art Basel in Miami. Hager remains prolific, continually exploring diverse outlets and mediums to expand his evolving career and share his unique visual story with a global audience.

Vinnie Hager 'Impromptu' Prints Available

Artist: Vinnie Hager
Title: Impromptu
Medium: Hand Embellished 1 Color Screen Print
Size: 18 x 24 Inches
Edition: 30 (UNIQUE)
Price: $75

 

Vinnie Hager is a Baltimore-born multidisciplinary artist who has turned compulsive doodling into a market-moving visual language. Raised in Millersville, Maryland, he spent solitary childhood afternoons filling notebooks with symbols eyes, envelopes, stars, question marks that still populate his work today. Encouraged by early $25 sales at school, he refined the alphabet while studying at Anne Arundel Community College and later at MICA, where animation and illustration courses fed his fascination with pattern.

Working without preliminary sketches, Hager lays down looping chains of glyphs in Posca pens, Procreate or paint pens, letting each shape dictate the next until dense mandala-like fields emerge. The method is meditative yet urgent; a single canvas or vintage Champion hoodie can be completed in one hypnotic four-hour session. Colour palettes shift between soft pastels and high-visibility neons, but the line remains consistently clean, recalling both hieroglyphics and circuit boards.

During the pandemic he pioneered Instagram “scavenger drops,” leaving free art around Baltimore, then watching followers sprint to claim them an act that converted online buzz into real-world community. The same energy fuels limited capsule releases: thrifted furniture, cut-and-sewn blankets, ski masks and Nike AF1s slathered with his code sell out in minutes, echoing early Supreme hype without the corporate machine.

Hager’s recent Diary NFT project translates seven years of grief into 1,000 unique digital squares, each paired with a physical print, merging Web3 innovation with tangible craft. Whether painting a six-storey Harbour East mural or grip-tape for local skaters, he treats every surface as a page in an ever-expanding sketchbook, proving that sincerity, speed and a sharp eye can transform simple marks into cultural currency.

Vinner Hager 'Trucker Hats' Release Details

Artist: Vinne Hager
Title: Trucker Hats
Medium: Puff Paint On Mesh Snapback
Size: One Size
Edition: 5 each colorway
Price: $65(ish)

*available at 2pm EST on Monday August 19th