James Seehafer is an American painter and multimedia artist, recognized for coining the term Massurrealism and his contributions to this art genre.

[1] Seehafer was born in the United States, and primarily grew up in the New England area of the northeast, and pursued painting and photography independently.

[2] Seehafer started displaying his paintings in the mid 1980s in both Connecticut and the Lower East Side of New York City where he participated in numerous exhibitions.

He introduced the term Massurrealism in 1992 to describe his use of mass media-based sources on his work.

Among them was a digital collage "Untitled 1990" which was based on his cart paintings and studies of the late 1980s and early 1990s.