Jeff Gillette is best known for his striking paintings that place iconic Disney characters within bleak, dystopian environments dominated by landfills and urban slums. By merging the visual language of 20th-century cartoon illustration with the technical rigor of traditional European oil painting, his work offers a pointed critique of the global inequalities shaped by 21st-century capitalism.Gillette’s subversive vision was fully realized in his 2010 solo exhibition Dismayland, which is widely regarded as a key influence on Banksy’s 2015 dystopian theme park project Dismaland. Banksy selected Gillette’s Minnie Hiroshima (2015) as the official poster for the exhibition and invited him to exhibit alongside prominent figures such as Damien Hirst and Jenny Holzer in the so-called “bemusement park.”Drawing on his experiences traveling through India and Nepal as a Peace Corps volunteer, Gillette infuses his work with firsthand observations of poverty and resilience. His paintings have been exhibited internationally, including in Los Angeles, London, and Singapore.