Mickey: The True Original Exhibition celebrates 90 years of Mickey Mouse’s influence on art and pop culture. Opening in November 2018, this immersive experience is inspired by Mickey’s status as a ‘true original’ and his consistent impact on the arts and creativity in all its forms. Guests will have the chance to explore the 16,000 square-foot exhibition featuring both historic and contemporary work from renowned artists.
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Celebrating the 90th anniversary of Mickey Mouse, ‘Mickey: The True Original Exhibition’ will open in New York City from November 8, 2018 - February 10, 2019. The exhibition is an immersive, pop-up art experience inspired by Mickey’s status as a ‘true original’ and his global impact on art and popular culture.
Featured Artists
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Darren Romanelli
Darren Romanelli (DRx, Dr. Romanelli) is a Los Angeles based designer, creative director, curator, and founder of award-winning marketing agency StreetVirus. He is most notable for creating series of customized, limited edition clothing, furniture, and collectibles and adds his signature DRx touch to all levels of a project's development, from inception to display to promotion.
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Amanda Ross-Ho
Amanda Ross-Ho is a Los Angeles-based artist who has exhibited widely, both nationally and internationally, and presented large-scale commissioned public work around the world.
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Kenny Scharf
Scharf rose to prominence in the early 1980s as a New York street artist and muralist. His interdisciplinary practice consisted of design, sculpture, installations, performance and video as well as painting.
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Shinique Smith
Shinique Smith is a Brooklyn-based American visual artist known for her monumental artworks of bundled fabric and clothing and her jubilant paintings of gestural calligraphy and collage.
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Keith Haring
Keith Haring (1958-1990) was one of many renowned young artists to come out of the vibrant 1980s East Village art scene. Haring was part of a group of artists that collaborated on exhibitions, performances, and protests. This DIY ethos is evidenced in Haring’s subway drawings, executed without permission, in white chalk on the black paper used to cover vacant advertising panels in the NYC subways. Through this work he reached a broad audience and garnered wide-ranging attention. Haring began exhibiting professionally worldwide as early as 1980, but maintained a commitment to public projects and activism throughout his brief but dynamic career.
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Tanya Aguiñiga
Tanya Aguiñiga is a Los Angeles based artist/designer/craftsperson who was raised in Tijuana, Mexico. Her work uses craft as a performative medium to generate dialogues about identity, culture and gender while creating community.
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London Kaye
London Kaye is a street artist based in Brooklyn, New York. Her unique use of crochet to create art pieces made entirely of yarn has attracted the attention of major media outlets, globally recognized brands and an engaged following on social media.
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Daniel Arsham
Daniel Arsham is a New York based contemporary artist whose work straddles the line of art, architecture and performance. Through his practice, he mines everyday experience for opportunities to confuse and confound expectations of space and form.
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Brian Bress
Brian Bress is a Los Angeles based artist and filmmaker. His collages, photographs, videos, sculptures and paintings have been exhibited in various group shows and film festivals across the country.
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Brian Roettinger
Brian Roettinger is a Los Angeles based graphic designer/artist. Over the years his creative output has come to encompass curating, publishing, editing, writing, and directing while he continues to work with some of the most prolific artists in the music industry.
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Oliver Clegg
Oliver Clegg is a New York based British interdisciplinary artist. His materials and methods have involved everything from glass, wood and steel to neon, resin and concrete, weaving and casting to engraving and industrial manufacture.
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Katherine Bernhardt
Katherine Bernhardt is a Brooklyn based painter with more than two decades of experience in the New York art scene. As an artist, she uses acrylic and spray paint to draw subject matters from objects of daily life, attesting to the symbols of modern culture.
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Oliver Payne
Oliver Payne is a Los Angeles based visual artist. Recently his work has been featured in New York, Los Angeles, London and Tokyo.
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Keichi Tanaami
Originally from Tokyo, Keichi Tanaami has been active in graphic design, illustration, and fine arts since the 1960s. His work transcends mediums as he takes on experimental approaches in challenging the contemporary art world.
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James Jean
Born in Taiwan, James Jean is an artist known for his ability to work across different genres with an imaginative approach to image making. He’s exhibited his work around the world and has collaborated with leading consumer brands on notable global campaigns.
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Ariana Papademetropoulos
Ariana Papademetropoulos is a Los Angeles based artist of Greek and Argentinean descent. Her work explores the practice of illusion in the history of painting, through both realism and trompe l'oeil.
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PEACEMINUSONE
In 2016, South Korean singer-songwriter, rapper, record producer, entrepreneur and global fashion icon known as G-Dragon launched the fashion brand, PEACEMINUSONE with a collection at Colette Paris that included tees, caps, jewelry, and in-ear headphones. Later, the line was launched globally via Dover Street Market in London, Ginza, New York, and Singapore, and would eventually lead to pop-up stores around the world including Alchemist in Miami, as well as collaboration with Vogue.
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Michael Bosanko
Based in Wales, UK, Michael Bosanko has been light painting since 2004. His work has featured in many global publications and has appeared on numerous TV shows all over Europe.
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John Rankin
RANKIN is a British photographer, publisher and film director. With a portfolio ranging from portraiture to documentary, he has shot The Rolling Stones, David Bowie, Kate Moss, Kendall Jenner and The Queen to name only a few.
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James Fauntleroy
James Fauntleroy is a multi-Grammy Award winning singer, songwriter, producer and musician from Inglewood, California. He has written and produced songs and albums for multi-platinum artists including Bruno Mars, Justin Timberlake, Kendrick Lamar, John Legend, Sza, Beyoncé and Jay-Z.
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Javier Sanchez Medina
Javier Sánchez Medina is an artisan and artist from Extremadura, in the south-west of Spain, currently based in Madrid. Javier’s practice applies the traditional craft of an Espartero to create new and exciting work.
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Michael John Kelly
Michael John Kelly is an artist based in Berlin and Los Angeles. His work in painting, sculpture, and video bridges his investigations of family, classical and pop cultural mythologies, and ways of considering the sublime in a post faith, networked society.
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Tetsuya Nomura
Tetsuya Nomura is a Japanese video game artist, director and designer. He is known for his work on the Final Fantasy and Kingdom Hearts video game franchises and is currently working on Kingdom Hearts III, which will be released on January 29, 2019.