Slimesunday (b. 1991, Boston, MA; born Mike Parisella) is a Salem-based digital collage artist whose provocative, surreal, and erotically charged works interrogate censorship, sexuality, and mass media. Known for pushing the boundaries of what mainstream platforms will allow, his imagery blends vintage aesthetics with dreamlike interventions, reconfiguring fragments of cultural history into compositions that are at once playful, uncanny, and confrontational.
Rooted in a fascination with censorship, Slimesunday’s practice transforms limitation into creative fuel. His collages often substitute censored body parts with fruits, textures, or abstract forms, offering humorous yet critical reflections on society’s discomfort with sexuality. By appropriating and reworking imagery from 1970s and ’80s magazines and advertisements, he bridges nostalgia with surrealism, producing a visual language that is instantly recognizable—bold textures, saturated hues, and jarring juxtapositions.
Parisella’s influence extends beyond the art world. His works have appeared in Playboy, Penthouse, Cosmopolitan, Plastik, and Hunger, and he has collaborated with leading musicians including J. Cole, Katy Perry, Lana Del Rey, Beck, and J Balvin. Exhibitions at institutions such as Phillips Auction House and Boston’s Pellas Gallery further highlight his growing presence in contemporary art spaces.
A pioneer of Web3 art, Slimesunday has embraced digital marketplaces with equal fervor. His project Banned From the Internet directly confronted platform censorship and became a landmark NFT release on Nifty Gateway. With SLIMESHOP on OpenSea, he invited fans into his process, offering customizable collage layers that blurred the line between artist and audience. These ventures underscore his adaptability and commitment to participatory culture in the digital era.
Central to his philosophy is the conviction that sexuality is natural and that censorship is an unnecessary barrier to creative freedom. His art challenges viewers to question cultural norms while celebrating the raw, surreal, and often absurd beauty of the human imagination.
With an online following surpassing half a million, Slimesunday has built a global community that engages with his irreverent, boundary-pushing aesthetic. Straddling the worlds of digital culture, contemporary art, and blockchain innovation, Parisella continues to redefine collage as a medium—making it not just an act of cutting and pasting, but a form of critique, play, and resistance.
