At the age of sixteen Boyd started to paint, with the ambition of showing professionally, and began his apprenticeship with an established local artist.

In recent years Hollywood has come to Louisiana and Boyd has appeared in the short-lived TV series K-Ville, the acclaimed Treme, and the feature films Deja Vu, Tribute and Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant (in which he is credited as Mr.

[4] Coolidge was invited to present Blake Boyd's artwork for the rock and roll band Supagroup at the closing party for White Linen Night .

[5] Prospect 1.75 closed with the opening of the exhibition "Super Man Burger King" at Nadine Blake's French Quarter location, October 28.

Boyd uses his skill with the historic technique to reinterpret present-day icons and themes in an unfamiliar scale and setting to tell a story through their associations.

Boyd lived in London in 1996 and spent two months using public photobooths, mostly at tube stations, to take portraits of people from the streets.

The five hundred portraits include Governor Bobby Jindal, Senator Mary Landrieu, LTG Russel L. Honore, and actor Patricia Clarkson.

Boyd's interaction with the cross-section of regional icons inspired further conceptual collections: Zombie Katrina is the culmination of the Louisiana Polaroid Trilogy.

The concept originated while photographing Larry King for Louisiana Cereal as Boyd discussed the toxic legacy of Hurricane Katrina and the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.

Boyd asked King if he would model for a portrait with special effects make-up to draw attention to the dangers of mankind’s pollution of the planet.

Boyd travelled across the United States with special effects make-up artists Bryan Fulk and Rob "The Kid" Lindores to document around 100 people as zombies weaving their fates together through a conceptual narrative referencing The Shining, Shaun of the Dead, the writings of Hunter S. Thompson and Jack Kerouac’s On the Road.

The storyline features several of the more well-known models tying their fates together through front page headlines, a water color illustrated journal and a series of oversize painted portraits.

Featured Polaroid portraits include Bruce Campbell, Kevin Eastman, Michael Hitchcock, Al Jaffee, Christopher Makos, Taylor Mead, Richard Meier, Billy Name, John Stirrat, Sean Yseult and members of Robert Zemeckis’ family.

The first and most frequent collaborator was Taylor Mead who, over twenty years, made drawings and paintings or performed in Boyd’s photographs and videos.

The depiction of characters such as Pinocchio, Alice in Wonderland, and Snow White, in the medieval medium of water gilding, acknowledges them as contemporary Icons.

(Bryan Batt features one of Boyd's gilded Snow White paintings "Hard Luck Woman #11" in his 2011 book Big, Easy Style: Creating Rooms You Love to Live In.

Artists in this series include Harry Shearer, Doug and Mike Starn, Sir Peter Blake and Tracey Emin, who sewed her own mouse ears for the project.

The inaugural exhibition, “megalomania”, opened January 5, 2013 and featured portraits of Boyd by 38 artists including Derek Boshier, Dave Eggers, Al Jaffee, Larry King, Taylor Mead, Andres Serrano and Holly Woodlawn.