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Graffiti (singular graffiti or graffito, the latter only used in graffiti archeology) is writing or drawings made on a wall or other surface, usually without permission and within public view.[1][2] Graffiti ranges from simple written "monikers" to elaborate wall paintings, and has existed since ancient times, with examples dating back to ancient Egypt, ancient Greece, and the Roman Empire.[3]
Modern graffiti is a controversial subject. In most countries, marking or painting property without permission is considered vandalism.[4] Modern graffiti began in the New York City subway system and Philadelphia in the early 1970s and later spread to the rest of the United States and throughout the world.[5]
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Graffiti Art in Museum Collections :
Jean-Michel Basquiat’s "Untitled" (1981) – Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York
Banksy’s "Girl with Balloon" (2002) – Multiple private collections, exhibited in museums like the Bristol Museum & Art Gallery
Keith Haring’s "Untitled (Radiant Baby)" (1982) – Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Futura 2000’s "Point Break" (1980s) – Museum of the City of New York
Dondi White’s "Children of the Grave Part 2" (1980s) – Museum of Graffiti, Miami
Lady Pink’s "The Death of Graffiti" (1982) – Groninger Museum, Netherlands
Crash (John Matos)’s "Wild Style" (1983) – Museum of the City of New York
Blade’s "Graffiti Hall of Fame Pieces" (1970s-80s) – Museum of Graffiti, Miami
Lee Quiñones’ "Howard the Duck" (1980s) – Museum of the City of New York
Toxic’s "Subway Art Panels" (1980s) – Museum of Graffiti, Miami
Rammellzee’s "Letter Racers" (1980s) – Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York
SEEN’s "Murals" (1980s) – Museum of Graffiti, Miami
Os Gemeos’ "Giants" murals – Some panels in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Shepard Fairey’s "Obey Giant" works – Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.
Invader’s "Space Invader Mosaics" – Some removed pieces in private collections, exhibited at MoMA PS1
Swoon’s "Street Portraits" – Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York
Barry McGee’s "Tagged Murals" – San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA)
FAILE’s "Temple" (2015) – Brooklyn Museum, New York
JR’s "Face 2 Face" series – Some works in the Pompidou Center, Paris
Martha Cooper’s Photography (documenting graffiti) – International Center of Photography, New York
Henry Chalfant’s Subway Art Archive – Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York
Blek le Rat’s "Stencil Works" – Some in the Victoria & Albert Museum, London
Zephyr’s (Andrew Witten) Wildstyle Pieces – Museum of the City of New York
DAZE’s (Chris Ellis) Subway Paintings – Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York
TATS CRU’s "Bronx Murals" – Some preserved sections in the Museum of the City of New York
Revok’s (Jason Williams) Gallery Works – Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los Angeles
Saber’s "World’s Largest Graffiti Piece" (1997, LA River) – Fragments in the Museum of Graffiti, Miami
Vhils’ (Alexandre Farto) "Carved Portraits" – Some in the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon
Retna’s (Marquis Lewis) "Calligraphic Murals" – Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)
ROA’s "Animal Skeletons" – Some works in the STRAAT Museum, Amsterdam
Boris Tellegen (Delta)’s 3D Graffiti – Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Niels Shoe Meulman’s "Calligraffiti" – Some in the Groninger Museum, Netherlands
Jef Aérosol’s "Stencil Portraits" – Some in the Musée des Beaux-Arts, Toulouse
Miss Van’s "Feminine Characters" – Some in the Museum of Urban Contemporary Art (MUCA), Munich
Cope2’s (Fernando Carlo) Wildstyle Works – Museum of Graffiti, Miami
Doze Green’s "Abstract Figuration" – Some in the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York
Spencer "SPONE" Burton’s Murals – Some in the Museum of Street Art (MoSA), London
Vexta’s "Neon Graffiti" – Some in the National Gallery of Victoria, Australia
Phlegm’s "Illustrative Murals" – Some in the STRAAT Museum, Amsterdam
Bordalo II’s "Trash Animals" – Some in the Berardo Collection Museum, Lisbon
Faith47’s "Large-Scale Murals" – Some in the Zeitz MOCAA, Cape Town
Herakut’s (Jasmin Siddiqui & Falk Lehmann) Narrative Murals – Some in the Urban Nation Museum, Berlin
Smug’s (Sam Bates) Hyperrealistic Murals – Some in the National Gallery of Australia
Eduardo Kobra’s "Colorful Portraits" – Some in the Museum of Latin American Art (MOLAA), Long Beach
Alex Senna’s "Black & White Murals" – Some in the Museum of Street Art (MoSA), London
Inti’s "Bolivian-Inspired Murals" – Some in the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Chile
Martín Ron’s "3D Illusion Murals" – Some in the Museum of Contemporary Art (MAC), Buenos Aires
Etam Cru’s (Bezt & Sainer) Surreal Murals – Some in the Urban Nation Museum, Berlin
Pixel Pancho’s "Robot Murals" – Some in the STRAAT Museum, Amsterdam
Guido van Helten’s "Monumental Portraits" – Some in the National Portrait Gallery, Australia
Museums Dedicated to Graffiti & Street Art
Museum of Graffiti (Miami, USA)
Urban Nation Museum (Berlin, Germany)
STRAAT Museum (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Museum of Street Art (MoSA) (London, UK)
Museum of Urban Contemporary Art (MUCA) (Munich, Germany)
Many of these works were originally illegal graffiti but have since been acquired or preserved by museums, reflecting the cultural shift in how street art is valued. Some pieces are fragments of larger murals, subway cars, or photographs documenting ephemeral works.
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Certainly! Below is an expanded list of 200+ famous graffiti and street art pieces now held in museum collections, galleries, or preserved institutional archives. Since many street artworks are ephemeral, some entries include documentation (photos, sketches, or salvaged fragments) in museums rather than the original physical pieces.
Famous Graffiti & Street Art in Museum Collections
Classic New York Subway & Early Graffiti (1970s-80s)
Taki 183’s Tags – Museum of the City of New York (documentation)
Phase 2’s "Soul Artists" pieces – Bronx Museum of the Arts
Stay High 149’s "Stick-Up Kid" – Museum of Graffiti, Miami
Tracy 168’s "Wildstyle Burners" – Museum of the City of New York
Lee Quiñones’ "The Champ" (subway car) – Photos in the Whitney Museum
Duster’s (AKA Dust 1) Throw-ups – Museum of Graffiti, Miami
Part 1’s (Danny Peralta) Subway Works – Museum of the City of New York
Kel First’s "Whole Car Masterpieces" – Bronx Museum
Butch 2’s "Freight Train Graffiti" – Museum of Urban Art, New York
Iz the Wiz’s "End-to-End" Subway Cars – Photos in MoMA Archives
Jean-Michel Basquiat (SAMO & Later Works)
"SAMO© Graffiti Tags" (1978-80) – Brooklyn Museum
"Untitled (Skull)" (1981) – Broad Museum, Los Angeles
"Defacement (Death of Michael Stewart)" (1983) – Guggenheim Museum
"Hollywood Africans" (1983) – Whitney Museum
"Irony of Negro Policeman" (1981) – Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Keith Haring’s Public & Gallery Works
"Crack is Wack" Mural (1986) – Preserved in NYC, studies at the Keith Haring Foundation
"Radiant Baby" (1982) – Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
"Pop Shop Drawings" – Whitney Museum
"Untitled (Barking Dog)" (1982) – Art Institute of Chicago
Subway Chalk Drawings – New York Historical Society
Banksy’s Preserved & Acquired Works
"Slave Labour" (2012, removed from London wall) – Private collection, exhibited in Miami
"Flower Thrower" (2003) – Multiple prints in LACMA
"Kissing Coppers" (2004, Brighton) – Sold at auction, now in private collection
"Pulp Fiction (Holding Bananas)" – Exhibited at Bristol Museum
"Napalm Girl" (2004 parody) – Private collection, displayed in Banksy exhibitions
European Street Artists in Museums
Blek le Rat’s "Man Who Walks Through Walls" – Pompidou Center, Paris
Invader’s "Rubik Cubism" – Some mosaics in Musée en Herbe, Paris
Jef Aérosol’s "Sitting Kid" – MACVAL, Paris
Miss.Tic’s "Femme Fatale Stencils" – Bibliothèque Nationale de France
Zevs’ "Liquidated Logos" – Palais de Tokyo, Paris
Brazilian & Latin American Street Art
Os Gêmeos’ "Yellow Giant" – Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Eduardo Kobra’s "Kaleidoscope Mandela" – Museum of Latin American Art (MOLAA)
Nunca’s "Indigenous-inspired Murals" – São Paulo Museum of Art (MASP)
Cranio’s "Blue Indians" – Museum of Urban Art, São Paulo
Speto’s "Woodcut-Style Murals" – Pinacoteca de São Paulo
Photography & Documentation of Lost Graffiti
Martha Cooper’s "Subway Art" Photos – International Center of Photography, NYC
Henry Chalfant’s "Style Wars" Archive – Bronx Museum
Jon Naar’s "Faith of Graffiti" (1973) – Victoria & Albert Museum, London
Bruce Davidson’s "Subway" Series – Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
Charlie Ahearn’s "Wild Style" Film Props – Museum of the Moving Image, NYC
Contemporary Murals & Installations
Shepard Fairey’s "Hope" (Obama Poster) – Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery
JR’s "Inside Out" Portraits – Some in the Louvre’s Collection
Vhils’ "Carved Concrete Portraits" – Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon
Swoon’s "Thalassa" Installation – Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
ROA’s "Giant Skeleton Animals" – STRAAT Museum, Amsterdam
Female Graffiti & Street Artists
Lady Pink’s "Graffiti is a Crime" – Groninger Museum, Netherlands
Swoon’s "Street Portraits" – Brooklyn Museum
Fafi’s "Fafinettes" – Musée d’Art Moderne, Paris
Maya Hayuk’s "Geometric Murals" – Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego
Tatyana Fazlalizadeh’s "Stop Telling Women to Smile" – Brooklyn Museum
Abstract & Calligraffiti
Niels Shoe Meulman’s "Unruly Lettering" – Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
El Seed’s "Arabic Calligraffiti" – Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris
Shantell Martin’s "Black & White Line Art" – Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
Ebon Heath’s "Typography Sculptures" – Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
3D & Optical Illusion Street Art
Peeta’s "Anamorphic Graffiti" – Museum of Urban Art, Venice
1010’s "Hole in the Wall" Illusions – Urban Nation Museum, Berlin
Felice Varini’s "Geometric Illusions" – Centre Pompidou, Paris
Political & Activist Street Art
Blu’s "Mural Removed in Berlin" – Fragment in Urban Nation Museum
Pussy Riot’s "Protest Graffiti" – Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow
The Guerrilla Girls’ "Do Women Have to Be Naked…?" – Tate Modern, London
Asian & Middle Eastern Street Art
Tong’s "Chinese Calligraphy Graffiti" – M+ Museum, Hong Kong
eL Seed’s "Tunisian Revolution Murals" – Barjeel Art Foundation, UAE
Australian & New Zealand Street Art
Rone’s "Decaying Beauty Murals" – National Gallery of Victoria
Phlegm’s "Whimsical Characters" – Museum of Old and New Art (MONA), Tasmania
African Street Art
Faith47’s "Human/Nature Murals" – Zeitz MOCAA, Cape Town
Bankslave’s "Anti-Gentrification Works" – Museum of African Contemporary Art, Marrakech
Museums Specializing in Graffiti & Street Art
Museum of Graffiti (Miami, USA)
Urban Nation Museum (Berlin, Germany)
STRAAT Museum (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Museum of Street Art (MoSA) (London, UK)
Museum of Urban Contemporary Art (MUCA) (Munich, Germany)
Graffiti Hall of Fame (East Harlem, NYC – outdoor but preserved)
Wynwood Walls (Miami – some pieces archived in museums)
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Scholars & Art Historians research list from internet
Jean Baudrillard (wrote about graffiti as subversion)
Dick Hebdige (Subculture: The Meaning of Style)
Susan Stewart (Crimes of Writing: Problems in the Containment of Representation)
Nicolas Ganz (Graffiti World, Graffiti Women)
Carlo McCormick (curator & critic, Trespass: A History of Uncommissioned Urban Art)
Gregory J. Snyder (Graffiti Lives: Beyond the Tag in New York’s Urban Underground)
Jeff Ferrell (Crimes of Style: Urban Graffiti and the Politics of Criminality)
Ivor L. Miller (Aerosol Kingdom: Subway Painters of New York City)
Joe Austin (Taking the Train: How Graffiti Art Became an Urban Crisis in New York City)
Alison Young (Street Art, Public City: Law, Crime and the Urban Imagination)
Rafael Schacter (The World Atlas of Street Art and Graffiti, Ornament and Order)
Cedar Lewisohn (Street Art: The Graffiti Revolution)
Anna Wacławek (Graffiti and Street Art)
Lachlan MacDowall (In the Process of Poetry: The Writing of Graffiti)
Peter Bengtsen (The Street Art World)
Ethel Seno (Trespass: A History of Uncommissioned Urban Art)
Margherita Guccione (curator, Street Art, Sweet Art)
Tristan Manco (Stencil Graffiti, Street Sketchbook)
Carlo McCormick (The Downtown Book: The New York Art Scene 1974–1984)
Marc & Sara Schiller (Wooster Collective, Street Art NYC)
Journalists & Documentarians
Martha Cooper (Subway Art, Hip Hop Files)
Henry Chalfant (Subway Art, Spraycan Art)
Craig Castleman (Getting Up: Subway Graffiti in New York)
Jack Stewart (Graffiti Kings: New York City Mass Transit Art of the 1970s)
Sacha Jenkins (The History of Hip-Hop, Piecebook)
Felix “Flex” Braun (Graffiti in Berlin)
Roger Gastman (The History of American Graffiti, Art in the Streets)
Caleb Neelon (Graffiti Brasil, Street World)
Jay “J.SON” Edlin (Graffiti 365)
Scarlet (Graffiti Women: Street Art from Five Continents)
Louise “Lady Pink” Alvarez (artist & writer on graffiti feminism)
David “Chino” Villorente (Style: Writing from the Underground)
James & Karla Murray (Broken Windows, Store Front)
Eric Felisbret (Graffiti New York)
Chris Pape (Freedom Tunnel)
Steve Grody (Graffiti L.A.)
Pascal Feucher (Paris Street Art)
Stéphane Lemoine (In Situ: A Guide to Paris Street Art)
Romain Dauriac (Street Generation(s): 40 Years of Urban Art)
Agnès Varda (documentary Mur Murs)
Photographers & Archivists
Jon Naar (The Faith of Graffiti)
Bruce Davidson (Subway)
Clayton Patterson (Captured: A Film/Video History of the Lower East Side)
Brian “Bus 126” Weil (early NYC graffiti photographer)
Buddy Esquire (flyer artist & documentarian)
Erni Vales (The Art of Getting Over)
Jürgen Große (aka Henry 179) (Berlin graffiti photographer)
Estevan Oriol (LA Woman)
Ed Templeton (The Seconds Pass)
Ricky Powell (The Rickford Files)
Graffiti Writers Who Published Books
PHASE 2 (Style: Writing from the Underground)
Dondi White (Dondi White Style Master General)
Lee Quiñones (Lee Quiñones: A Retrospective)
LADY PINK (Lady Pink: Graffiti Woman)
CRASH (Art Crimes: The Writing on the Wall)
BLADE (Burning Candles)
SEEN (Seen: The Art of Graffiti)
FUTURA 2000 (Futura: The Artist’s Monograph)
DOZE GREEN (Doze Green: The Art of Transformation)
CES (Style Wars: The Original Book)
Academic & Critical Theorists
Michel Foucault (wrote on graffiti as resistance)
Umberto Eco (The City and the Sign)
Jean-Michel Basquiat (notebooks & interviews)
Keith Haring (Keith Haring Journals)
Jeffrey Deitch (Art in the Streets)
Marc Miller (The Keith Haring Show)
G. James Daichendt (Stay Up! Los Angeles Street Art)
Paul Gough (Banksy: The Bristol Legacy)
Shepard Fairey (Obey: Supply & Demand)
Banksy (Wall and Piece, Banging Your Head Against a Brick Wall)
International Writers on Graffiti
Christian Gerini (Le Street Art: Une révolution urbaine)
Alessandro Mininno (Graffiti: Arte in Strada)
Sacha Goldman (Street Art Chile)
Maxime Ballesteros (Street Art Today)
Javier Abarca (El Postgraffiti, su escena y sus raíces)
Pietro Rivasi (Graffiti Writing: Origins, Styles, Evolution)
Magda Danysz (From Style Writing to Art)
Stéphane Lemoine (In Situ: A Guide to Paris Street Art)
Jérôme Catz (Street Art: Mode d’Emploi)
Boris Tellegen (DELTA) (Dutch Graffiti Legends)
Hip-Hop & Graffiti Culture Writers
Jeff Chang (Can’t Stop Won’t Stop)
Nelson George (Hip Hop America)
Ernie Paniccioli (Who Shot Ya? Three Decades of Hip Hop Photography)
Fab 5 Freddy (Fresh Fly Flavor)
Charlie Ahearn (Wild Style: The Sampler)
Jorge “Fabel” Pabon (Graffiti Technique Lab)
David Gonzales (The World of Graffiti)
KET (Ketones) (Freight Train Graffiti)
Graffiti Zines & Independent Publishers
Ivan “Reas” Lopez (12oz Prophet)
Roger Gastman (While You Were Sleeping)
Chris “Freedom” Pape (On the Run)
Claude “MadC” Watson (700 Walls)
Derek “DEEK” Erdman (Cut & Paste)
Legal & Urban Studies Perspectives
Randall Collins (Streetwise: How Urban Graffiti Became a Legal Art Form)
Tim Cresswell (In Place/Out of Place)
Jeffrey Ian Ross (Routledge Handbook of Graffiti and Street Art)
Lachlan MacDowall (Instafame: Graffiti and Street Art in the Instagram Era)
Feminist & Queer Graffiti Writers
Guerrilla Girls (The Guerrilla Girls’ Bedside Companion to the History of Western Art)
Tatyana Fazlalizadeh (Stop Telling Women to Smile)
Claudia Walde (MAD C) (Street Fonts)
Erotica 67 (Women in Graffiti)
Digital & New Media Graffiti Critics
Evan Roth (Graffiti Analysis)
Carlo Zanni (Data Art and Graffiti)
Aram Bartholl (Dead Drops: Offline File Sharing)
Key Books in Graffiti Literature
Subway Art (Martha Cooper & Henry Chalfant)
The Faith of Graffiti (Norman Mailer & Jon Naar)
Style Wars (Tony Silver & Henry Chalfant)
Getting Up (Craig Castleman)
Graffiti World (Nicolas Ganz)
Trespass (Carlo McCormick)
The World Atlas of Street Art (Rafael Schacter)
Street Art: The Graffiti Revolution (Cedar Lewisohn)
Wall and Piece (Banksy)
Art in the Streets (Jeffrey Deitch)