King Overman is an alias of Kevin Hoyle-Gorman, a British visual artist, music producer, and DJ. He created the King Overman identity in 2021 to present the art he’d started making during recovery from cancer. The artist has since had pieces exhibited at Brooklyn Museum, and filmmaker Spike Lee has collected multiple works.

Prior to art, he’d spent two decades writing and performing electronic music internationally (as Adesse Versions / Kevin Gorman) - playing at venues including Fabric, Berghain, the Boiler Room and his own show on Rinse FM.

As King Overman, his art centres on large-scale painting and sculpture. Influenced by fashion photography, classical portraiture, and street art, he depicts powerful, imposing figures—deliberately contrasting with the lasting impact illness has had on his life. He works from his own intricate photo collages, making the painting process structured and focused on colour balance and execution. His work has developed from canvas and board into life-size human sculptures made from wood and polystyrene. 

His artworks have also resonated online, with his most popular TikTok video surpassing 3 million views. In 2022, he published his first monograph, Ballers.

King Overman lives and works in Manchester, UK.