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Shepard Fairey Art

American, b. 1970

Expanding on the legacies of artists such as Keith Haring and Andy Warhol, Shepard Fairey’s practice disrupts the distinction between fine and commercial art.

A major artist of the street art movement, Fairey rose to prominence in the early 1990s through the dispersion of prints, posters, stickers and murals, related to his Obey Giant campaign, which yielded an international cultural phenomenon. Fairey’s iconic poster of President Barack Obama was adopted as the official emblem associated with the presidential campaign and encapsulates a number of recurring concerns in the artist’s work, including propaganda, portraiture and political power.

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Artist: Shepard Fairey
Obey Lotus Crescent (White / Gold)
By Shepard Fairey
Located in Miami, FL
TECHNICAL INFORMATION Shepard Fairey Obey Lotus Crescent (White / Gold) 2013 Screenprint and Diamond Dust 34 3/8 x 26 in. Edition of 75 Pencil signed &...
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2010s Contemporary Shepard Fairey Art

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Screen

Obey Dove Black and Red
By Shepard Fairey
Located in Miami, FL
TECHNICAL INFORMATION Shepard Fairey Obey Dove Black and Red 20011 Screenprint 24 x 18 in. each Edition of 325 Pencil signed & numbered Condition: This work is in excellent condi...
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2010s Contemporary Shepard Fairey Art

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Screen

Obey with Caution
By Shepard Fairey
Located in Miami, FL
TECHNICAL INFORMATION Shepard Fairey Obey with Caution 2002 Screenprint 24 x 18 in. Edition of 250 Pencil signed numbered Condition: This work is in excellent condition F...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Shepard Fairey Art

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Screen

Overnight Delivery
By Shepard Fairey
Located in Miami, FL
TECHNICAL INFORMATION Shepard Fairey Overnight Delivery 2013 Screenprint and Diamond Dust 24 x 18 in. Edition of 300 Pencil signed & numbered ...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Shepard Fairey Art

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Screen

Obey Lotus Diamond (Black / Gold)
By Shepard Fairey
Located in Miami, FL
TECHNICAL INFORMATION Shepard Fairey Obey Lotus Diamond (Black / Gold) 2013 Screenprint and Diamond Dust 34 3/8 x 26 in. Edition of 75 Pencil signed & ...
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2010s Contemporary Shepard Fairey Art

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Screen

Occupy Protester
By Shepard Fairey
Located in Miami, FL
TECHNICAL INFORMATION Shepard Fairey Occupy Protester 2012 Screenprint 24 x 18 in. Edition of 450 Pencil signed & numbered Condition: This work is in excellent condition Frank S...
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2010s Contemporary Shepard Fairey Art

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Screen

Obey Lotus Diamond (White / Gold)
By Shepard Fairey
Located in Miami, FL
TECHNICAL INFORMATION Shepard Fairey Obey Lotus Diamond (White / Gold) 2013 Screenprint and Diamond Dust 34 3/8 x 26 in. Edition of 75 Pencil signed & ...
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2010s Contemporary Shepard Fairey Art

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Screen

Nubian
By Shepard Fairey
Located in Miami, FL
TECHNICAL INFORMATION Shepard Fairey Nubian 1998 Screenprint 24 x 18 in. A.P. Pencil signed & numbered Condition: This work is in excellent condition Frank Shepard Fairey (b...
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1990s Contemporary Shepard Fairey Art

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Screen

Nubian Sign
By Shepard Fairey
Located in Miami, FL
TECHNICAL INFORMATION Shepard Fairey Nubian Sign 2000 Screenprint 24 x 18 in. Edition of 140 Pencil signed & numbered Condition: This work is in excellent condition
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Early 2000s Contemporary Shepard Fairey Art

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Screen

Nixon Money
By Shepard Fairey
Located in Miami, FL
TECHNICAL INFORMATION Shepard Fairey Nixon Money 2003 Screenprint 24 x 18 in. A.P. Pencil signed & numbered Condition: This work is in excellent condition
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Early 2000s Contemporary Shepard Fairey Art

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Screen

Lotus Ornament Gold
By Shepard Fairey
Located in Miami, FL
TECHNICAL INFORMATION Shepard Fairey Lotus Ornament Gold 2008 Screenprint 24 x 18 in. Edition of 300 Pencil signed & numbered Condition: This work is in excellent condition
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Early 2000s Contemporary Shepard Fairey Art

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Screen

Lenin Money
By Shepard Fairey
Located in Miami, FL
TECHNICAL INFORMATION Shepard Fairey Lenin Money 2003 Screenprint 24 x 18 in. Edition of 350 Pencil signed & numbered Condition: This work is in excellent condition
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Early 2000s Contemporary Shepard Fairey Art

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Screen

Korean Soldier
By Shepard Fairey
Located in Miami, FL
TECHNICAL INFORMATION Shepard Fairey Korean Soldier 1998 Screenprint 24 x 18 in. Edition of 100 Pencil signed & numbered Condition: This work is in excellent condition
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1990s Contemporary Shepard Fairey Art

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Screen

Duality of Humanity #5
By Shepard Fairey
Located in Miami, FL
TECHNICAL INFORMATION Shepard Fairey Duality of Humanity #5 2009 Screenprint 18 x 24 in. Edition of 450 Pencil signed numbered Condit...
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Early 2000s Street Art Shepard Fairey Art

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Screen

Duality of Humanity #2
By Shepard Fairey
Located in Miami, FL
TECHNICAL INFORMATION Shepard Fairey Duality of Humanity #2 2009 Screenprint 18 x 24 in. Edition of 450 Pencil signed & numbered Condition:...
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Early 2000s Street Art Shepard Fairey Art

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Screen

Duality of Humanity #3
By Shepard Fairey
Located in Miami, FL
TECHNICAL INFORMATION Shepard Fairey Duality of Humanity #3 2008 Screenprint 24 x 18 in. Edition of 450 Pencil signed numbered Accomp...
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Early 2000s Street Art Shepard Fairey Art

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Screen

Chinese Banner 2
By Shepard Fairey
Located in Miami, FL
TECHNICAL INFORMATION Chinese Banner 2 2004 Screenprint 24 x 18 in. Edition of 300 Pencil signed & numbered Condition: This work is in excellen...
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Early 2000s Street Art Shepard Fairey Art

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Screen

Chinese Building
By Shepard Fairey
Located in Miami, FL
TECHNICAL INFORMATION Shepard Fairey Chinese Building 2001 Screenprint 24 x 18 in. Edition of 300 Pencil signed & numbered Condition: This work is in excellent condition
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Early 2000s Street Art Shepard Fairey Art

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Screen

Bayonettes
By Shepard Fairey
Located in Miami, FL
TECHNICAL INFORMATION Shepard Fairey Bayonettes 2006 Screenprint 24 x 18 in. Edition of 300 Pencil signed & numbered Condition: This work is in excellent condition Frank She...
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Early 2000s Street Art Shepard Fairey Art

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Screen

Big Brother Profile
By Shepard Fairey
Located in Miami, FL
TECHNICAL INFORMATION Shepard Fairey Big Brother Profile 2000 Screenprint 24 x 18 in. Edition of 140 Pencil signed & numbered Condition: This work is in excellent condition ...
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Early 2000s Street Art Shepard Fairey Art

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Screen

Authoritarian
By Shepard Fairey
Located in Miami, FL
TECHNICAL INFORMATION Shepard Fairey Authoritarian 2000 Screenprint 24 x 18 in. Edition of 140 Pencil signed & numbered Condition: This work is in excellent condition
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Early 2000s Street Art Shepard Fairey Art

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Screen

Ankara Red
By Shepard Fairey
Located in Miami, FL
TECHNICAL INFORMATION Shepard Fairey Ankara Red 2005 Screenprint 24 x 18 in. Edition of 300 Pencil signed & numbered Condition: This work is in excellent condition.
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Early 2000s Street Art Shepard Fairey Art

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Screen

Sonic Firestorm HPM
By Shepard Fairey
Located in Miami, FL
TECHNICAL INFORMATION: Shepard Fairey Sonic Firestorm HPM 2013 HPM (Hand-Painted Multiple), screenprint and mixed media collage on paper 41 1/2 x 41 1/2 in. Edition of 10 Pencil signed and numbered Condition: This work is in excellent condition. Frame: Framed in a black shadowbox frame with UV protective plexiglass Frank Shepard Fairey (born February 15, 1970) is an American contemporary graphic designer and illustrator who emerged from the skateboarding scene. He first became known for his "Andre the Giant Has a Posse" (OBEY) sticker campaign. Fairey created the "Andre the Giant Has a Posse" sticker campaign in 1989, while attending the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). This later evolved into the "Obey Giant" campaign. As with most street artists, the Obey Giant was intended to inspire curiosity and cause the masses to question their relationship with their surroundings. The sticker has no meaning but exists only to cause people to react, to contemplate and search for a meaning in the sticker. Those who are familiar with the sticker simply find humor and enjoyment from its presence. Those who actually try to look deeper into its meaning only burden themselves and often end up condemning the art as an act of vandalism from an evil, underground cult. In a manifesto he wrote in 1990, and since posted on his website, he links his work with Heidegger's concept of phenomenology. “When I started to see reactions and consider the sociological forces at work surrounding the use of public space and the insertion of a very eye-catching but ambiguous image, I began to think there was the potential to create a phenomenon”. His work became more widely known in the 2008 U.S. presidential election, specifically his Barack Obama "Hope" poster. The New Yorker art critic Peter Schjeldahl called the poster "the most efficacious American political illustration since 'Uncle Sam Wants You'". Fairey's first art museum exhibition, titled "Supply Demand" like his earlier book, was in Boston at the Institute of Contemporary Art in the summer of 2009. The exhibition featured over 250 works in a wide variety of media: screen prints, stencils, stickers, rubylith illustrations, collages, and works on wood, metal and canvas. As a complement to the ICA exhibition, Fairey created public art works around Boston. The artist explains his driving motivation: “The real message behind most of my work is 'question everything'”. On his way to the premiere of his show at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Fairey was arrested on two outstanding warrants related to graffiti. He was charged with damage to property for having postered two Boston area locations with graffiti, a Boston Police Department spokesman said. His arrest was announced to party goers by longtime friend Z-Trip who had been performing at the ICA premiere at Shepard Fairey's request. The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston calls him one of today's best known and most influential street artists. His work is included in the collections at The Smithsonian, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, the Virginia Museum of Fine Art in Richmond, and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. In 2011 Time Magazine commissioned Fairey to design its cover to honor "The Protester" as Person of the Year in the wake of the Arab Spring, Occupy Wall Street and other social movements around the world. This was Fairey's second Person of the Year cover for Time, his first being of Barack Obama in 2008. ABOUT THE WORK: Sonic Firestorm is an HPM, or Hand Painted Multiple. Before the screenprinting process takes place, Fairey hand-crafts the paper by collaging his patterns, stencils, newspaper clippings, and advertising logos...
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2010s Street Art Shepard Fairey Art

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Screen, Mixed Media

2nd Amendment Solutions
By Shepard Fairey
Located in Miami, FL
TECHNICAL INFORMATION: Shepard Fairey 2nd Amendment Solutions 2011 Screenprint 24 x 18 in. Edition of 450 Pencil signed and numbered Condition: This wo...
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2010s Street Art Shepard Fairey Art

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Screen

Big Brother is Watching You
By Shepard Fairey
Located in Miami, FL
TECHNICAL INFORMATION: Shepard Fairey Big Brother is Watching You 2006 Screenprint 24 x 18 in. Edition of 300 Pencil signed and numbered Condition: This work is in excellent condit...
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Early 2000s Street Art Shepard Fairey Art

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Screen

Rose Girl
By Shepard Fairey
Located in Miami, FL
TECHNICAL INFORMATION: Shepard Fairey Rose Girl 2008 Screenprint 24 x 18 in. Edition of 450 Pencil signed and numbered Condition: This work is in excellent...
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Early 2000s Street Art Shepard Fairey Art

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Screen

Shepard Fairey Basquiat screenprint (Basquiat Shepard Fairey)
By Shepard Fairey
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Shepard Fairey Basquiat Screen Print 2010: Medium: Screen-print in colors. Dimensions: 18x 24 inches. Excellent condition with the exception of perhaps some minor signs of handling. Hand-signed and dated 2010 by Fairey in pencil on the lower right margin (AP printed aside the main edition of 450). Provenance: acquired from Submarine Films by way of Fairey (Submarine was the distributor of the 2009 Basquiat documentary "Radiant Child" which features this image). About Shepard Fairey: Shepard Fairey (American, b. 1970) is a contemporary artist, graphic designer, and illustrator who emerged from the skateboarding scene of Southern California. He first became known for his “André the Giant Has a Posse” sticker Campaign, in which he appropriated images from the supermarket tabloid Weekly World News. His work became more widely known in the 2008 U.S. presidential election with respect to his controversial Barack Obama...
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2010s Pop Art Shepard Fairey Art

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Screen

Obey Wage Peace
By Shepard Fairey
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Shepard Fairey Obey Wage Peace, 2005 Screenprint on paper42 x 29.50 in SKU: SF0004 bg gallery mid sized rack
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21st Century and Contemporary Street Art Shepard Fairey Art

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Other Medium

Shepard Fairey art for sale on 1stDibs.

Find a wide variety of authentic Shepard Fairey art available for sale on 1stDibs. If you’re browsing the collection of art to introduce a pop of color in a neutral corner of your living room or bedroom, you can find work that includes elements of red, orange, blue and other colors. You can also browse by medium to find art by Shepard Fairey in screen print, paper, metal and more. Much of the original work by this artist or collective was created during the 21st century and contemporary and is mostly associated with the street art style. Not every interior allows for large Shepard Fairey art, so small editions measuring 1 inch across are available. Customers who are interested in this artist might also find the work of Ryan Travis Christian, Matt Gondek, and Tristan Eaton. Shepard Fairey art prices can differ depending upon medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $99 and tops out at $88,000, while the average work can sell for $1,500.

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Questions About Shepard Fairey Art
  • 1stDibs ExpertAugust 8, 2024
    What triggered Shepard Fairey's success in street art was the dissemination of prints, posters, stickers and murals during the 1990s. His Obey the Giant campaign, featuring an image of wrestler and actor Andre the Giant, captured the imagination of the public and launched him into the spotlight. Years later, Fairey’s iconic poster of President Barack Obama was adopted as the official emblem associated with the presidential campaign and encapsulates a number of recurring concerns in the artist’s work, including propaganda, portraiture and political power. Shop a variety of Shepard Fairey art on 1stDibs.
  • 1stDibs ExpertFebruary 27, 2024
    The style of art that Shepard Fairey is best known for is contemporary art. Specifically, Fairey is a famous street artist. He rose to prominence in the early 1990s through the dispersion of prints, posters, stickers and murals related to his Obey Giant campaign, which yielded an international cultural phenomenon. Fairey's iconic poster of President Barack Obama was adopted as the official emblem associated with the presidential campaign and encapsulates a number of recurring concerns in the artist's work, including propaganda, portraiture and political power. On 1stDibs, shop a collection of Shepard Fairey art.
  • 1stDibs ExpertFebruary 7, 2024
    Shepard Fairey is famous for his street art. He rose to prominence in the early 1990s through the prints, posters, stickers and murals related to his Obey Giant campaign, which was an international cultural phenomenon. Fairey’s now-iconic poster of Barack Obama became part of his presidential campaign. It encapsulates a number of recurring themes in the artist’s work, including propaganda, portraiture and political power. On 1stDibs, shop a diverse assortment of Shepard Fairey art.