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Richard Mirando, known as Seen, is an American graffiti artist. [1] [2] He is one of the best known graffiti artists in the world and has been referred to as the Godfather of Graffiti. [1] Seen first started to paint on the New York City Subway system in 1973. [1] He was born in the Bronx, New York City.
Carlos Rodriguez, better known as Mare139, is a New York-based artist born in 1965 in Spanish Harlem, New York City.He was best known as the subway graffiti writer Mare 139, and has since adapted the graffiti lettering styles to metal sculpture in the fine art context, and is recognized as a media artist for his creation of graffiti-art-related websites.
In 2000, Powers gave up graffiti to become a full-time studio artist. [3] He is now a mixed media artist, working in drawing, painting, printmaking, and installation art. Power's work has been shown in the Venice and Liverpool biennials, as well as shows at New York City's Deitch Gallery. [10]
He is widely considered one of the world's first modern graffiti artist. [1] [2] [3] McCray was raised in Brewerytown, a neighborhood of North Philadelphia. During the late 1960s, he and a group of friends started doing graffiti in Philadelphia, by writing their monikers on walls across the city. [4]
RISK (born Kelly Graval), also known as RISKY, is a Los Angeles–based graffiti writer and contemporary artist often credited as a founder of the West Coast graffiti scene. [1] [2] In the 1980s, he was one of the first graffiti writers in Southern California to paint freight trains, and he pioneered writing on "heavens", or freeway overpasses.
JR was born in Paris in 1983. His mother was originally from Tunisia. [12]A mural from JR's "Unframed" installation at Ellis Island Hospital. JR began his career as a teenage graffiti artist who was by his own admission not interested in changing the world, but in making his mark on public space and society.
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In 1997, at the age of 15, van Barneveld discovered graffiti as a way to escape the constraints and rules of life as a football player. For more than a decade DOES was a professional athlete while secretly creating graffiti at night. After quitting his professional soccer career in 2010, he exclusively devoted himself to art under pseudonym ...