Poster Boy (street artist)

Poster Boy is a decentralized group of vandals.[1][2] Since the beginning, Poster Boy has remained anonymous and refuse to sell or sign any original work.[3] The collective's work focuses the principles of hip hop, specifically the element of graffiti, by limiting almost all work to improvisation.[4] Using only a razor blade, Poster Boy creates satiric collage-like works created by cutting out sections of the self-adhesive advertisement posters in the platforms of New York City Subway stations, and pasting them back in different positions. Poster Boy is also referred to a 'Poster Boy movement' where other people produce similar unsigned work in the New York City subways imitating this original artist. Even after their first arrest, of Brooklyn resident Henry Matyjewicz, the collective remains active online and on the streets.[5][6]

One of Poster Boy's work is featured in Banksy's 2010 documentary Exit Through the Gift Shop.

Poster Boy's work was also included in the retrospective street art show "10 Years of Wooster Collective" at Jonathan LeVine Gallery in 2013.[7][8]

  1. ^ Kennedy, Randy (3 February 2009). "Poster Boy Is Caught, or Is It a Stand-In?". The New York Times. Retrieved 10 July 2016.
  2. ^ Brian Raftery (5 October 2008). "Slice and Dice". New York Magazine. Retrieved 10 July 2016.
  3. ^ "The Search for True Selflessness in Art Making". edwardwinkleman.com. 8 October 2008. Retrieved 10 July 2016.
  4. ^ Walters, Ben (17 January 2009). "Cut, copy and paste". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 10 July 2016.
  5. ^ Carlson, Jen (18 May 2010). "Poster Boy: Still In Jail, Still Emailing Us". The Gothamist. Archived from the original on 27 February 2017.
  6. ^ "Poster Boy NYC on Flickr". 8 March 2016.
  7. ^ Jonathan Levine Gallery (7 August 2013). "10 YEARS OF WOOSTER COLLECTIVE:2003—2013". Retrieved 10 July 2016.
  8. ^ Sutton, Benjamin (12 August 2013). "Poster Boy Tears it Up at the Wooster Collective's 10th Anniversary Exhibition".