About Aristotle Circa
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Aristotle Circa is a Los Angeles artist, designer, and photographer. In his own words, a Visual Author.
The only formal showing of his work to date has been at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2003. PHONING IT IN, January 2027, for Los Angeles Art Week, will be his first self-authored presentation.
Circa’s collection of photographs for PHONING IT IN, deliberately shot on his phone, emphasize the human eye and the camera at hand. People remain out of frame, their presence suggested by what surrounds them. In large part, the photographs are unmistakably Los Angeles, as seen by a native son. The images consider what becomes visible when we give ourselves the time and grace to pause, finding quiet retreat in places and moments hidden in plain sight.
Aristotle began these photographs after being struck by a car as a pedestrian. He nearly died. Learning to walk again took time, and returning to the world took years. The sound of traffic brought panic, and as a way of managing his reaction to that sound and movement, Circa found still structural moments as a retreat he could look to, and with a camera nearest him began shooting them. Capturing these still, quiet images began as shelter from a crowded world and then became his way of rejoining it.
The photographs in PHONING IT IN are contemporary and ongoing, and illustrate the small visual touchstones that exist nowhere but Los Angeles.
In 1999, he founded UNIFORM CIRCA as a mouthpiece for his ideas, using garments as a surface for printed works that communicated, commented on, and celebrated the cultural moment that they helped define. That same point of view informed his fashion styling, costume design, spaces, and events.
A paintbrush, printmaking, clothing, objects, and photography all work as his channel of expression. Leaving an indelible image designed to communicate by a singular Visual Author.
Founded in 1999, UNIFORM CIRCA continues its hand-painted and handcrafted work on garments and objects as part of Aristotle’s larger art practice, with commissioned pieces now taking the name UNIFORM COMMISSION A CIRCA.
UNIFORM CALIFORNIA | UNIFORM CALIF. has replaced the UNIFORM CIRCA name on garments and objects specifically produced outside the studio using DTG and DTF printing as of November 1, 2026. Authored by UNIFORM CIRCA, it offers our most iconic prints and staples year-round alongside limited-edition special project capsules.
Circa’s practice is contemporaneous and ongoing across the multiple disciplines he uses to examine wealth, consumption, fame, sexuality, and identity. Humor and sharp observation have historically populated much of this work.