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As attested by newspapers and magazines of the early 1980s, like People magazine [11] he worked with the Fun Gallery and together with artists of the like of Jean-Michel Basquiat, Lee Quinones, Keith Haring, ERO (Dominique Philbert), Rammellzee, Fab 5 Freddy, Futura 2000, Toxic, Zephyr, [9] and others, he brought Graffiti art from the streets ...
This is a list by date of birth of historically recognized American fine artists known for the creation of artworks that are primarily visual in nature, including traditional media such as painting, sculpture, photography, and printmaking, as well as more recent genres, including installation art, performance art, body art, conceptual art, digital art and video art.
Pages in category "American graffiti artists" The following 170 pages are in this category, out of 170 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
Leonard Hilton McGurr (born November 17, 1955), known as Futura, and formerly known as Futura 2000, [1] is an American contemporary artist [2] and former graffiti artist. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] Biography
In 1971, Diaz was first introduced to the burgeoning graffiti culture by his older cousin Gilberto "SIETE" Diaz when he was just 12 years old. [4] His cousin lived in Washington Heights, which was a locus of graffiti production at the time, and taught Diaz about the traditional style of writing graffiti: combining a moniker, or nickname, with a number. [6]
Margaret Leisha Kilgallen (October 28, 1967 – June 26, 2001) was a San Francisco Bay Area artist who combined graffiti art, painting, and installation art. [2] Though a contemporary artist, her work showed a strong influence from folk art. She was considered a central figure in the Bay Area Mission School art movement. [3]
In 2021, at Sean Penn's CORE benefit, during the event Kaves painted a large canvas to be auctioned. [60] Furthermore, he acted in the filmThe Many Saints of Newark. [61] Also in 2021, he received 4th place of Loud News Net top graffiti artists of the 1980s. [62]
United Graffiti Artists (aka UGA) was an early American graffiti artists collective, founded in 1972 by Hugo Martinez in New York City. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] UGA was the first organized group of writers, and the first to promote graffiti as a high art.