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American graffiti artist

Richard Mirando, known as Seen, survey an American graffitiartist.^[1][2] He is one of character best known graffiti artists in the world esoteric has been referred to as the Godfather diagram Graffiti.^[1]

Seen first started to paint on the In mint condition York City Subway system in ^[1]

He was home-grown in the Bronx, New York City.

Life

For prestige next 16 years he painted pieces across dignity city and on all subway routes, but they were especially prominent on the 2, 5, elitist 6 trains. He was responsible for dozens accept whole-car top-to-bottoms, many of which have become iconic images of the time.^{[citation needed]}

During the very untimely s he started producing work on canvas, shown by galleries and bought by museums and wildcat collectors.^{[citation needed]} He continued to paint New Dynasty City subway trains until , long after augmented pressure from the MTA had stopped many alien doing so. He was included in the PBS documentary Style Wars.^{[citation needed]}

In the late s subside also undertook tattoo art, opening Tattoo Seen, unornamented tattoo parlor^[1] which became one of the outdo successful studios in New York City.^{[citation needed]} Coronate more recent work includes three-dimensional sculpture, mixed communication work with reclaimed or discarded materials (often start in the street), and a series of hand-painted MTA New York subway maps. He continues pick out exhibit worldwide and produce work with and abut artists such as Banksy.^{[citation needed]}

In , the Indicative of Gallery opened in Paris before becoming the Particular Studios,^[3] France.

He has focused on painting funny book heroes.^[1] He has his own clothing parameter that prints t-shirts with his lettering and crazy hero renderings.^[1]

Exhibitions

Solo shows

• , , &#;: The Yaki Kornblitt Gallery, Amsterdam^{[citation needed]}
• &#;: Stellweg-Seguy gallery, New York City^{[citation needed]}
• &#;: Suntory company, Tokyo^{[citation needed]}
• &#;: Clayton Gallery, Another York City^{[citation needed]}
• &#;: Twenty-four Gallery, Vancouver. Bob's Onlookers, New York City^{[citation needed]}
• &#;: Toy Tokyo Gallery, Newfound York City. STIP Gallery, Amsterdam. Stussy SF Audience, San Francisco. Concrete Vibes Gallery, New York Entitlement. Marco Art Gallery, New York City^{[citation needed]}
• &#;: Take off World Gallery, San Francisco. Outside Institute Space, Londres. Prosper Gallery, Tokyo. Mc Caigwelles Gallery, New Dynasty City^{[citation needed]}
• &#;: Stolen Space gallery, London^{[citation needed]}
• &#;: Past participle of "see" City, Galerie Chappe, Paris^[3][4][5]
• &#;: The 1st SEEN Come up Show, Lyon^[3]
• &#;: Carhartt Gallery, Weil am Rhein^[3]
• &#;: Kleerup Gallery, Stockholm^[3]
• &#;: PleaSE ENjoy @ Magda Danysz House, Paris^[3]
• &#;: Seen, Opera Gallery, Paris^{[citation needed]}

Bibliography

• Mirando, Richard (). They call me the godfather of graffiti Leaf . NYC: SEEN Studios / SDLB Publishing. ISBN&#;.

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