Shepard Fairey

Shepard Fairey is perhaps the most prolific street artist of them all, having reached all parts of the globe with his Obey Giant experiment in phenomenology.

In the late eighties when showing a friend how to make paper cut stencils a young Shepard Fairey came across a picture of the French wrestler Andre The Giant and the first “Andre The Giant Has A Posse” sticker was born.

Later shifting to the more concise "Obey Giant" tagline, within the next few years the Obey Giant propaganda campaign had spread across the US and Shepard Fairey was on his way to becoming one of the world's most significant contemporary artists.

Shepard Fairey's work is included in the collections at The Smithsonian, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, MOMA in New York, the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond, and the V&A in London.

Browse available Shepard Fairey prints in the shop area of the site.