Shepard Fairey (American, 1970)

Shepard Fairey

American | 1970

Shepard Fairey is an American Postwar & Contemporary artist who was born in 1970. His work is currently being shown at multiple venues like Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) Boston. Numerous key galleries and museums such as Opera Gallery, New York have featured Shepard Fairey's work in the past.Shepard Fairey's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 1 USD to 950,000 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 2008 the record price for this artist at auction is 950,000 USD for HOPE, sold at Santa Monica Auctions in 2023. Shepard Fairey has been featured in articles for Aesthetica, FAD Magazine and ArtDaily. The most recent article is Favorite Finds at Frieze Los Angeles 2024 written for WHITEWALL in March 2024.

Artist's alternative names: Frank Shepard Fairey, Obey, Obey Giant

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Current Exhibitions

Typecast LA

Art Share L.A.
Downtown Los Angeles | Los Angeles | California | USA
Mar 09,2024 - Apr 27,2024

Shepard Fairey: Facing The Giant: 3 Decades Of Dissent

Krasl Art Center
St. Joseph | Michigan | USA
Feb 10,2024 - May 12,2024

The New Salon. A Contemporary View

Asheville Art Museum
Asheville | North Carolina | USA
Mar 08,2024 - Aug 19,2024

Articles

Favorite Finds at Frieze Los Angeles 2024
A Digital Canvas

A Digital Canvas  

Aesthetica 29/02/2024
From the Ashes, An Exhibition + Auction Raising Funds for Xingu Indigenous Communities of the Amazon Rainforest.

Coverage

..Fairey is one of today’s best known and most influential street artists...

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Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) Boston

..Known for his iconic designed President Obama HOPE poster, Fairey has worked as an artist creating works on the streets and globally in public spaces using posters, stickers, wheat paste and painted murals...

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Dallas Contemporary

..Fairey's multi-layered renderings of counter-cultural revolutionaries and rap, punk and rock stars, as well as updated and re-imagined propaganda-style posters, carry his signature graphic style, marked...

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Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) Boston

..While Fairey is not a Latino artist, his work often does have a social or political message like the Chicano art the Romos are known for collecting...

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McNay Art Museum

..Bad Brains and Fairey speak the same language and aspire to use their art and platforms as a means to engage in a discussion about obedience, intellectual rebellion, and social and political practice...

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Subliminal Projects Gallery

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