Shepard Fairey (Obey)
WK / Shepard Portrait - Shepard Fairey (Obey), 2023 - Print - Lithograph
Warhol Black and White, 2023 - Print, Screenprint on Speckletone cream paper
We the People, 2017 - Lithograph in Colors on Paper, 91.4 x 182.9 cm
Biography:
Fairey is an American contemporary street artist, graphic designer, activist, illustrator and founder of OBEY Clothing who emerged from the skateboarding scene. He first became known for his “Andre the Giant Has a Posse” (…OBEY…) sticker campaign while attending the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), which appropriated images from the comedic supermarket tabloid Weekly World News.
He became widely known during the 2008 U.S. presidential election for his Barack Obama “Hope” poster. The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston has described him as one of the best known and most influential street artists.
Fairey won the Brit Insurance Design Awards ‘Design of the Year’ and the AS220 Free Culture Award.
His work is included in the collections at The Smithsonian, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C., the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond, and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.