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Shepard Fairey

Graphic Designer/Graffiti Artist


Claim To Fame: Obama Hope Poster.

Shepard Fairey is the man behind OBEY GIANT, the graphics that have changed the way people see art and the urban landscape. What started with an absurd sticker he created in 1989 while a student at the Rhode Island School of Design has since evolved into a worldwide street art campaign, as well as an acclaimed body of fine art. In 2003, Fairey founded Studio Number One, a creative design firm dedicated to applying his ethos at the intersection of art and enterprise. Fairey’s art reached a new height of prominence in 2008, when his “HOPE” portrait of Barack Obama became the iconic image of the presidential campaign and helped inspire an unprecedented political movement. The original image now hangs in the Smithsonian Institution’s National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. In 2009, the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston honored Fairey with a full-scale solo retrospective, also titled Supply and Demand. The show will tour the country through 2010. In spring 2010, Fairey will unveil a new collection of work through his current gallery, Deitch Projects.

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