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Biography

Shawn Mortensen is a Los Angeles based artist, photographer, & filmmaker who has been featured in i-D, Harper's Bazaar, Vanity Fair and Details, and has shot covers for Spin, Vibe, The Source, XXL, & The Village Voice - to name a few. In addition to photographing well-known fashion and advertising campaigns and an cclectic list of celebrities and artists, he has shown his photographs with exhibitions at New York's Whitney & Guggenheim Museums, The Getty Museum & has won an MTV Video Music Award. Mortensen has also documented his global travels in provacative photo-essays, from rare access in Chiapas, Mexico, where he captured haunting images of the Zapatista uprising, to the dancehalls & shantytowns of Kingston, Jamaica, to the unspoiled landscapes of Mongolia, as well as intesive work in Ethiopia, South Africa & Nigeria. In order to spearhead AIDS awareness, he journeyed from South Africa, to Lagos, Nigeria, where he collaborated with the REDHOT Organization on the critically acclaimed benefit recording project and documentary Red Hot + RIOT. An artist & advocate, Shawn Mortensen creates a vast range of images that evoke sensational, & sometimes startling, results. His first book It's My Life ... Or It Seemed Like A Good Idea At The Time was published by BAPE Galley/ Bathing Ape in 2002. Mortensen's second book, Out of Mind was published in May 2007 by Harry Abrams. He is currently at work on his third to be released in 2008. Currently, Mortensen is touring an exhibtion of imagery from Out of Mind. The show is featured at SLAMJAM in Verona, Italy until January, & will open January 14th at SLAMJAM Milano to coincide with Men's Fashion Week. December 20 - January 2o, 2008 Shawn is exhibiting Zapatista Revolution mural prints @ La Esquina Cafe in New York City's Soho / S.Lafayette in commemoration of the 14th anniversary of the Zapatista Uprising January 1st, 1994 ... ' The Shot that was heard around the world. '.


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The Streets of Europe @ Jonathan Levine Gallery GRAFFITI show


Posted by Shawn Mortensen on December 28, 2007 9:40 PM | Email


"The Streets of Europe" @ the Jonathan Levine Gallery

529 W. 20th Street {9th floor} between 10th & 11th Ave NYC.

This is a GREAT show featuring LEGENDS & emerging artists from Europe ... people Keeping The Faith ... for instance the Italian duo =  Bo130 and MicRobo !

THE ITALIANS ARE MAKING WAVES & have INSPIRED me with their PASSION & academic KNOWLEDGE of the School of The Streets ! Here are a few who are OUT THERE !

 

Bo130 & MicRobo = These two recently did time in  the notorious  Tombs Jail in Manhattan for putting up stickers on the Spring Street building ... man - don't the cops have BETTER things to DO than bust people for STICKERS ??? ! ! ! THIS is a really GOOD SHOW - so get there QUICK before it closes !

I met these 2 in Modena, Italy when they had a show with Curator Giorgio Dimitri of Sartoria Communications. GREAT PEOPLE they are ! They also turned me ON to the AMAZING Italian Restaurant AROMA on 4th Street in NYC ... THANX homies ! ! ! I LOVE artists who are warm & passionate about COMMUNITY ... the artist community ... & who can MAKE IT HAPPEN when painting with a group of artists like their tour of Eastern Europe last summer !

Here is their website :      www.microbo.com   and   www.bo130.org 

From the Old School New York Graffiti Artists that  showed up for their opening ~ these guys get a LOT of LOVE & RESPECT !

 

Any way here is my portrait of Bo130 ... and MicRobo

 

 

 

 

 As a curator Giorgio diMitri has brought the world many STELLAR Artists in shows around the planet. Giorgio has been THE GO TO GUY for artists aspiring to show in Europe, as well as a conceptual consultant for companies like LEE Jeans & NIKE, amongst others. Giorgio is in constant global orbit & is a "cross-pollinator", bringing people together.

When Giorgio discovered OS GEMEOS - Brazil's INSPIRATIONAL Art TWINS - he produced a world tour & helped them reach a GLOBAL AUDIENCE .

He alo is responsible for CUBE - an annual book comprised of his discoveries & interests in Culture , Media, Fashion, Music, & especially in Art.

The man has been a long time supporter of emerging artists as well as Underground LEGENDS like FUTURA, Glenn E. Friedman, Barry McGee, IMPORTED The Beautiful Losers exhibition to Europe,Tom Sachs, Kostas Serementis, & MANY MORE ... actually TOO MANY TO MENTION ! GOOD WORKS Giorgio ! ! ! In the interest of full disclosure - Giorgio curated my current show in Verona, Italy & my next show in Milan in mid-January. He is the consumate HOST with The Most !



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