Some may call Frank Hadzima “chronically online” but he prefers the term “History Painter.” Hadzima is obsessed with depicting beautiful and unique people he finds on the internet. Some of these figures are real and some are fictional; all of them are valuable to culture and beautiful in their own way. “Cringe is dead!” says Hadzima, and he’s right. This is a nostalgia unique to those who grew up on the internet. Hadzima is accessing it with painting skills that anyone can appreciate. We need to see beauty in the bizarre and mundane more often, and that’s what Hadzima is after.
Frank Hadzima recieved his Bachelors of Fine Arts degree in Painting from the Cleveland Institute of Art in 2023. That's how you know he knows what he's doing.