Chicken Boy, Fiberglass statue in Highland Park, Los Angeles, US

Chicken Boy is a fiberglass figure in Highland Park, Los Angeles, with a human body and a chicken head, holding a bucket in its hands. It stands on the rooftop of Future Studio Gallery on North Figueroa Street, where it is clearly visible from the street below.

The statue was made in the 1960s for the Chicken Boy Fried Chicken Restaurant on Broadway in downtown Los Angeles, near Grand Central Market. The restaurant bought a fiberglass figure from International Fiberglass of Venice and had an artist replace its head with a chicken head and rework the arms to hold a bucket. It stayed there until the owner died in 1984, was later given to artist Amy Inouye, and was moved to 5558 North Figueroa Street in 2007.

Chicken Boy represents a style of roadside advertising once common in Los Angeles, where large figures on rooftops were used to attract passing drivers. This kind of promotional sculpture has mostly disappeared from city streets, making this one a rare surviving example.

The figure is easy to spot from North Figueroa Street without entering any building. Highland Park has several galleries and cafes nearby, so a stop here fits naturally into a walk through the neighborhood.

After the restaurant closed, an artist kept the figure in her own studio for over two decades to protect it from being lost. Those efforts were later recognized with the Governor's Historic Preservation Award from the state of California in 2010.