Jean-Michel Basquiat

Jean-Michel Basquiat

male, deceased (1988)
Jean-Michel Basquiat (December 22 1960, Brooklyn - August 12, 1988, New York, New York) was an American artist. He gained fame, first as a graffiti...
Keith Haring

Keith Haring

male, deceased (1990)
Keith Haring was a pre-eminent artist and social activist whose work responded to the New York street culture of the 1980s. He was born in Reading,...
Shepard Fairey

Shepard Fairey

male
Frank Shepard Fairey is a contemporary artist/graphic designer/illustrator. He usually goes under his middle and last name, Shepard Fairey. He is...

Seen

male
Seen is one of the most famous pioneering graffiti artists. He started to paint at 11 on New York's subway in 1973. After the mid-1980s, Seen...

Cope2

male
Cope2 has designed a pair of sneakers for Converse under the "Chuck Taylor All-Stars" line his throw up recently appeared on a wall in the movie...
Barry McGee

Barry McGee

male, 43 years old
Barry McGee (aka Twist aka Ray Fong aka Robert Pimple; born 1966, San Francisco, California) is a painter and graffiti artist. McGee rose out of...
Lady Pink

Lady Pink

female
Lady Pink (b. Sandra Fabara, Ambato, Ecuador, 1964) was raised in Queens, NY. In 1979 she started writing graffiti and soon was well known as...
KRS-One

KRS-One

male, 44 years old
Lawrence Krisna Parker (born August 20, 1965), known as KRS-One, is an American hip hop MC of Jamaican and Nigerian descent from South Bronx. Over...

Invader

male
Invader (born 1969) is a street artist who pastes up characters from and inspired by the "Space Invaders" game, made up of small coloured square...

Crunch

male
CRUNCH was an old school New York City graffiti master of the 1970s and early-80s. A subway artist who started tagging IRT and IND train interiors...