DRP Snipe1

While graffiti has been largely ignored by cultural institutions and contemporary art history, certain artists have successfully managed to straddle between the street and the gallery, creating universally appreciated works to integrate these two seemingly irreconcilable worlds. One such artist is Snipe1, a Japanese graffiti artist with a career spanning nearly three decades and whose works have been exhibited in New York, Moscow, Tokyo and Los Angeles alongside his peers and frequent collaborators Takashi Murakami and Madsaki. Whether on canvas or on the street, Snipe1’s unapologetic elevation of street culture and the underground graffiti scene pushes the boundaries of both graffiti and a...View all