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Frank Shepard Fairey was born in conservative Charlestown Carolina, to Charlotte Fairey, an English teacher, and Strait Fairey, a doctor. Known as Shepard since childhood, he was artistic from an early age, but felt constrained by his conventional surroundings. He said: "My mum was head cheerleader my dad was captain of the football team. I went to...
While he was at RISD he began experimenting with sticker stencils, a move that would shape his career. He said: "Drawing wasn't culturally cool. There were no hip art galleries. Teenagers don't care about art galleries so making stencils and stickers was very liberating for me. I felt as if I was if not pushing back, I was at least making my own pa...
Fairey puts his determination and motivation down, in part, to the fact that he is living with type 1 diabetes. Predicting that he will die up to two decades before the average person, he spends more time thinking about the meaning of life. The disease has affected his sight, leaving him needing operations on his eyes and temporary blindness: "It m...
Throughout his career, Fairey has been a committed activist; as well as protesting the Iraq War and supporting Occupy Wall Street, he has advocated gun control and more recently environmental protection. In 2012 he created a portrait of African American teenager Trayvon Martin, and he designed a T-shirt for Senator Bernie Sanders's 2016 Democratic ...
Fairey's Street Artadorns the walls of cities around the world, including Los Angeles, New York, London, Johannesburg, Berlin, Tokyo, and Hong Kong, but the very nature of it is that it is ephemeral. While posters and prints survive, his murals often disappear. He noted that: "I've been in street art 30 years. Most of my pieces don't last that long...
- American
- February 15, 1970
- Charleston, South Carolina
Charlotte Fairey, Shepard’s mother and a local Carolina One real estate agent, recognized Shepard’s artistic prowess when he was little more than a toddler. “I first realized Shepard was an artist when, at 4, he picked up a crayon and began drawing airplanes, battleships and even designing golf courses,” she said.
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Oct 15, 2021 · Street artist shepard fairey famous for andre the giant, obey and obama hope art, is in rock hill SC and charlotte painting a mural. he is from charleston.
- Melissa Oyler
Early life. Shepard Fairey was born and raised in Charleston, South Carolina.His father, Strait Fairey, is a doctor, and his mother, Charlotte, a realtor. He attended Porter-Gaud School in Charleston and transferred to high school at Idyllwild Arts Academy in Idyllwild, California, from which he graduated in 1988.
- American
- Rhode Island School of Design
- Brit Insurance Design Awards Design of the Year, AS220 Free Culture Award
Born and raised in Charleston, South Carolina, Shepard Fairey was son to doctor Strait Fairey and realtor Charlotte Fairey. Shepard graduated from Idyllwild Arts Academy in 1988 and the Rhode Island School of Design in 1992 receiving a bachelors in of Fine Arts in illustration.
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