Meet the faces behind the project.
Pull up a chair and meet Myron Bouwhuis. He’s not the type to call himself a “professional artist” — more like a curious mind who paints, listens, and connects dots most of us don’t even notice. Part entrepreneur, part storyteller, part community instigator, Myron decided to spend the last year with some pretty unusual company: 20th-century revolutionaries.
And not just on paper. While painting their portraits, he binge-listened to their biographies — digging into their struggles, contradictions, and hopes. What he found wasn’t neat or easy. These were flawed people, but they all had one thing in common: they wanted to shape a better world, whatever that meant to them.
That realization stuck. And from it, influencers over time was born — not as a gallery flex, but as a space to consider who truly influences us today, and how those ripples still reach us. Myron isn’t here to hand you judgments. He’s here to spark reflection, to get you thinking, and maybe to kick off conversations you’ll carry out the door.
But Myron isn’t flying solo. Enter Selma — the designer behind the project’s zine and the researcher digging into the stories that fuel it. She’s been shaping the ideas into something tangible you can hold, so the conversation doesn’t stop when you leave the gallery.
Together, Myron and Selma are inviting you into a conversation — one where art, history, and curiosity meet. Because influence isn’t just about the people we’re painting. It’s about the people paying attention.
