Iconic Graffiti Artists
Artist↕ | Born↕ | Country↕ | Famous Work↕ | Style↕ | Known For↕ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Banksy | 1,974 | United Kingdom | Girl with Balloon | Stencil | Anonymous British identity, Girl with Balloon shredding at auction, political stencils |
Jean-Michel Basquiat | 1,960 | United States | Untitled (1982 skull) | Neo-expressionism | SAMO tags, rose from graffiti to gallery star, died at 27, record auction prices |
Keith Haring | 1,958 | United States | Radiant Baby | Cartoon line art | NYC subway chalk drawings, Pop Shop, AIDS activism, radiant baby and barking dog icons |
Shepard Fairey | 1,970 | United States | Obama Hope poster | Propaganda stencil | OBEY Giant sticker campaign, Obama Hope, Andre the Giant has a Posse |
Blek le Rat | 1,951 | France | Rat stencils Paris | Stencil | Father of stencil graffiti, rats across Paris, directly inspired Banksy |
Lady Pink | 1,964 | Ecuador/USA | Death of Graffiti | Subway bombing | Female NYC subway graffiti pioneer, appeared in Wild Style film, gallery career |
Dondi White | 1,961 | United States | Children of the Grave | Wildstyle subway | NYC subway legend, whole-car Children of the Grave, early style master |
Futura 2000 | 1,955 | United States | Break Train | Abstract graffiti | Abstract atomic aesthetic, Clash album art, streetwear collabs (Supreme, Nike) |
Taki 183 | 1,954 | United States | Tags across NYC | Tagging | Often credited as first modern NYC tagger, 1971 NYT article sparked graffiti craze |
Os Gemeos | 1,974 | Brazil | Yellow giants | Cartoon mural | Twin brothers from Sao Paulo, yellow-skinned dreamlike giants, global mural tours |
Invader | 1,969 | France | Space Invaders tiles | Mosaic tile | 8-bit tile mosaics in cities worldwide, Rubikcubism, masked anonymous identity |
JR | 1,983 | France | Face 2 Face | Photo paste-up | Giant photo pasteups on walls and trains, TED Prize 2011, border wall installations |
Swoon | 1,977 | United States | Wheat-paste portraits | Paper cut-out | Intricate cut-paper wheat pastes, Swimming Cities flotilla, MoMA collection |
Lee Quinones | 1,960 | Puerto Rico/USA | Whole-car subway pieces | Subway bombing | Painted over 100 NYC whole-car subway pieces, starred in Wild Style movie |
Kaws | 1,974 | United States | Companion | Pop character | XX-eyed Companion character, Kaws bus stops, massive inflatable sculptures, Uniqlo |
RETNA | 1,979 | United States | Script murals | Calligraphic | Invented script merging hieroglyphics, Arabic, and graffiti, Justin Bieber album art |
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