artist/ SHEPARD FAIREY

USA

Shepard Fairey, also known by the pseudonym Obey, is an American street artist, screen printer, muralist, and illustrator born on February 15, 1970, in Charleston, South Carolina.

Emerging from the skateboarding scene, he first gained recognition through the “André the Giant Has a Posse” stickers, which spawned the “Obey Giant” campaign.

For the 2008 US presidential campaign, he created the “Hope” poster of Barack Obama, which became an iconic image of the campaign. The Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston regards him as one of the best-known, finest, and most influential street artists of the present day.