Artist Biography
Shepherd Fairey designed the Barack Obama "Hope" poster for the 2008 U.S. presidential election. The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston has described him as one of the best known and most influential street artists.
Art Museum Collections
The Smithsonian Museum, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art in New York City, 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.
Solo Artist Exhibitions
2000: Obey Giant, Anno Domini Gallery, San Jose, CA
2002: Overnight Delivery, BLK/MRKT Gallery, Culver City, CA
2002: Shepard Fairey, Kinsey/DesForges Gallery, Culver City, CA
2003: This is Your God, sixspace Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2004: Obey, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen
2004: Supply and Demand, Merry Karnowsky Gallery - LA, Los Angeles, CA
2005: Manufacturing Dissent, Merry Karnowsky Gallery - LA, Los Angeles, CA
2005: Shepard Fairey, Honolulu Museum of Art, Honolulu, HI
2006: Obey, Magda Danysz Gallery, Paris, France
2006: Rise Above, Merry Karnowsky Gallery - LA, Los Angeles, CA
2007: E Pluribus Venom, Jonathan LeVine Gallery, New York, NY
2007: Ninteeneightyfouria, Stolenspace Gallery, London
2007: Imperfect Union, Merry Karnowsky Gallery - LA, Los Angeles, CA
2009: Supply & Demand, ICA - Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, Boston, MA
2009: Shepard Fairey, National Portrait Gallery, Canberra, ACT
2009: Supply & Demand, The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA
2010: Supply and Demand, CAC - Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH
2010: May Day, Deitch Projects - 76 Grand Street, New York, NY
2011: Revolutions - The Album Cover Art Of Shepard Fairey, Robert Berman Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2012: Sound & Vision, Stolenspace Gallery, London
2015: On Our Hands, Jacob Lewis Gallery, New York, NY
2015: Sid Superman is Dead : Shepard Fairey et Denis Morris, Magda Danysz Gallery, Paris, France
2015: Your Eyes Here, CAC Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Málaga, Málaga Spain
2016: Victory is Peace - Shepard Fairey x NoNÅME, Positive-Propaganda Artspace, Munich, Germany
2017: Shepard Fairey: Work Against The Clampdown, Art Museum of West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV
2018: Shepard Fairey: Salad Days, 1989-1999, Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield, Hills, MI
2019: Retrospective Shepard Fairey, (600 works for Grenoble Street Art Fest), Grenoble, France
Selected group exhibitions
1999: Sticker Shock: Artists, ICA - Institute of Contemporary Art - University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
2003: Beautiful Losers, CAC - Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH
2004: Backjumps - The Live Issue #1, Kunstraum Kreuzberg / Bethanien, Berlin
2008: Under a Red Sky, Stolenspace Gallery, London
2009: The Art of Rebellion, Robert Berman Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2009: Urban Art - Werke aus der Sammlung Reinking, Weserburg | Museum für moderne Kunst, Bremen
2009: Viva la Revolucion: A Dialogue with the Urban Landscape, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego - MCASD Downtown, San Diego, CA
2013: At home I'm a tourist’ Colección de Selim Varol, CAC Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Málaga, Málaga
2014: The Insistent Image: Recurrent Motifs in the Art of Shepard Fairey and Jasper John, Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art, Charleston, SC
2014: Art Alliance: The Provocateurs, Block 37, Chicago, IL
2015: Sleeping Beauty, Magda Danysz Gallery, Paris, France
2019: POW! WOW!, Honolulu, Hawaii
2022: Art San Diego Convention Center San Diego California
TV Movies Appearances
Along with artists Frank Stella and Andres Serrano, Fairey appeared on The Colbert Report on December 8, 2010. As part of a segment with comedian Steve Martin, Fairey sprayed his Obey logo on a portrait of Colbert.
Fairey features heavily in the Banksy movie Exit Through the Gift Shop, which documents the birth of Mr. Brainwash.
On the September 13, 2011 episode of The Young and the Restless, an American television soap opera, character Devon Hamilton purchased a Shepard Fairey original, Commanda, as the first piece of art for his new office.
On the March 4, 2012 episode of The Simpsons, Exit Through the Kwik-E-Mart, Fairey appeared as himself.
Fairey appeared in the 2012 film Bones Brigade: An Autobiography as himself.
In 2013, a short narrative film based on the story of Shepard Fairey was released called Obey the Giant.
In the 2013 comedy film This Is the End, actor James Franco is depicted as having an "Andre the Giant Has a Posse" in his home and claiming it to be his favorite painting.
In 2017, Obey Giant, a documentary based on Shepard Fairey and distributed by Hulu, was released.
In 2018, he appeared in Bad Reputation a documentary about Joan Jett's career.
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