Gian Galang: the painting behind the digital fighter.
The UFC/Crypto.com portraits began on paper. A medium-by-medium reading of the image before the collectible.
COMBAT / PAINTING / PRINT
UFC.
Combat becomes an image: on paper, across a wall and on the surface of an object.
What changes when an event image changes its material?
UFC is an organisation, rather than a team, and its cultural hub begins with the image. Gian Galang’s physical paintings behind a digital portrait collection keep medium at the centre of the story. His UFC 300 mural and poster show how one event can be pictured at different scales. Poster on Canvas joins a designed image to material used in competition. These are related subjects with different records: a painting, a commission and an edition are not interchangeable. Our features make those distinctions visible through source-linked information, the artist’s images and official project photographs and an art-focused reading. The result is a starting point for combat’s visual culture, connected to BENI HASAN’s longer interest in movement and representation.
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BACKGROUND GUIDES
UFC 300: one artist, two scales of attention.
Gian Galang’s mural and poster have different proportions, materials and lives. A comparison of wall, paper and screen.
UFC Poster on Canvas: the image meets the used surface.
An event poster printed onto event-used Octagon canvas joins representation with a material trace. An object reading of what each contributes.
Art & design records
PRIMARY SOURCES / DATED PROJECTSUFC/Crypto.com portrait series
- Maker
- Gian Galang
- Medium / form
- Acrylic on paper / animated digital versions
UFC 300 mural and Artist Series poster
- Maker
- Gian Galang
- Medium / form
- Acrylic and spray paint / acrylic on watercolour paper
Poster on Canvas launch: six event editions
- Maker
- UFC Collectibles / Memento Exclusives
- Medium / form
- Event artwork printed onto event-used Octagon canvas
PROJECT DATES ARE HISTORICAL. RECORDS CHECKED 4 OCTOBER 2026. CURRENT AVAILABILITY IS NOT IMPLIED.