Peyton Dollar is an artist based in Nashville, Tennessee working in abstract and conceptual art. His work explores identity, reality, and the unraveling of his personal mythology.

for over eight years, Peyton identified largely as a photographer practicing in music, documentary, and editorial styles. feeling limited by his tools and role, Peyton began moving away from image making and turned to his inner world to expand his ideas beyond objective perception. What began as a shift in medium soon became a commitment to something deeper: true authorship and radical transformation.

now, peyton’s work doesn’t depend on realism so much as it does internal states and his own psychology. he draws inspiration from artists throughout history (Bacon, twombly, and brown), but also nods to his past career as a collection of memories and experiences to pull from. he’s now less interested in replicating reality and instead more drawn to reinventing it through his own lens.

his work shifts between lush, painterly abstraction and cold, diagrammatic precision. these contrasting modes reflect his way of thinking— a delicate balance between multiple points of view: art, science, and psychology. these areas of practice are foundational for his work, as peyton’s main mission is to blend beauty with the psychological undercurrent of the human condition.

Peyton currently lives and works inside his home in Nashville, where he continues to explore new visual languages, protect his creative space, and make room for slowness in the modern, fast moving world .

"to make living itself an art, that is the goal

-henry miller