Seeing Blue (BFF Lamp) By Kaws
By KAWS
Located in Dubai, Dubai
Renowned for his reinterpretations of familiar characters, including his signature "Companion" figures, KAWS has made a significant impact on contemporary art, seamlessly bridging th...
Fellow (set of 3 - blue, pink, black) By Kaws
By KAWS
Located in Dubai, Dubai
Renowned for his reinterpretations of familiar characters, including his signature "Companion" figures, KAWS has made a significant impact on contemporary art, seamlessly bridging th...
Vinyl
KAWS Holiday SHANGHAI (complete set of 3 works)
By KAWS
Located in NEW YORK, NY
KAWS: HOLIDAY Shanghai: complete set of 3 works: KAWS' signature character COMPANION presented holding the moon, and gazing at the sky.
Resin, Vinyl
KAWS "What Party" Brooklyn Museum Sculpture Contemporary Street
By KAWS
Located in Draper, UT
KAWS WHAT PARTY (orange): KAWS orange WHAT PARTY Companion featuring KAWS' CHUM character in a hunched position.
Vinyl
Clean Slate - Artist Proof - Bronze Sculpture - KAWS contemporary collectable
By KAWS
Located in Manchester, GB
This compact bronze sculpture — roughly 14.5 × 7.1 × 7.4 cm — distils KAWS’ enduring “Companion” figure into an elegantly crafted, collectible work.
Bronze
KAWS "What Party" Brooklyn Museum Pink Sculpture Street Art
By KAWS
Located in Draper, UT
KAWS WHAT PARTY (Pink): KAWS orange WHAT PARTY Companion featuring KAWS' CHUM character in a hunched position.
Vinyl
Dissected Companion (Black) Screen Print, Signed, Edition of 100, 2005
By KAWS
Located in Aventura, FL
Hand signed, dated and numbered by KAWS. 93 from the edition of 100 (there were also 15 artist's proofs).
Paper, Screen
Dissected Companion (Grey) Screen Print, Signed Edition 61/100, 2005
By KAWS
Located in Aventura, FL
Hand signed, dated and numbered by KAWS. Edition 61/100 (there were also 15 artist's proofs).
Paper, Screen
Five Years Later Companion (Brown) Vinyl Sculpture, Edition of 500
By KAWS
Located in Bristol, GB
Painted cast vinyl Edition of 500 (reported) Stamped 'MEDICOM TOY 2004 CHINA © KAWS..04' on the underside Pristine, some minor imperfections may exist given the nature of the materia...
Vinyl, Plastic
Hebru Brantley Gaia (Hebru Brantley Lil Mama as Gaia)
By Hebru Brantley
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Describing himself as an Afro-futurist, Brantley’s energetic narratives combine realistic events with imaginative, fantastical fiction, to create fragmented compositions that evoke s...
Vinyl
Hebru Brantley Gaia (Hebru Brantley Lil Mama as Gaia)
By Hebru Brantley
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Describing himself as an Afro-futurist, Brantley’s energetic narratives combine realistic events with imaginative, fantastical fiction, to create fragmented compositions that evoke s...
Vinyl
Price Upon Request
Hebru Brantley Gaia (Hebru Brantley Lil Mama as Gaia Black & Gold)
By Hebru Brantley
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Describing himself as an Afro-futurist, Brantley’s energetic narratives combine realistic events with imaginative, fantastical fiction, to create fragmented compositions that evoke s...
Vinyl
Hebru Brantley Flyboy Set of 3 (Hebru Brantley art toy)
By Hebru Brantley
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Describing himself as an Afro-futurist, Brantley’s energetic narratives combine realistic events with imaginative, fantastical fiction, to create fragmented compositions that evoke s...
Resin, Vinyl
Hebru Brantley Flyboy Set of 4 (Hebru Brantley art toy)
By Hebru Brantley
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Describing himself as an Afro-futurist, Brantley’s energetic narratives combine realistic events with imaginative, fantastical fiction, to create fragmented compositions that evoke s...
Resin, Vinyl
Hebru Brantley Flyboy (Hebru Brantley art toy)
By Hebru Brantley
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Describing himself as an Afro-futurist, Brantley’s energetic narratives combine realistic events with imaginative, fantastical fiction, to create fragmented compositions that evoke s...
Resin, Vinyl
Hebru Brantley Flyboy black & gold (Hebru Brantley black flyboy)
By Hebru Brantley
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Describing himself as an Afro-futurist, Brantley’s energetic narratives combine realistic events with imaginative, fantastical fiction, to create fragmented compositions that evoke s...
Resin, Vinyl
Price Upon Request
Hebru Brantley Flyboy (Hebru Brantley art toy
By Hebru Brantley
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Describing himself as an Afro-futurist, Brantley’s energetic narratives combine realistic events with imaginative, fantastical fiction, to create fragmented compositions that evoke s...
Resin, Vinyl
Hebru Brantley Flyboy Set of 2 (Hebru Brantley art toys)
By Hebru Brantley
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Describing himself as an Afro-futurist, Brantley’s energetic narratives combine realistic events with imaginative, fantastical fiction, to create fragmented compositions that evoke s...
Resin, Vinyl
Hebru Brantley Flyboy (Hebru Brantley art toy)
By Hebru Brantley
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Describing himself as an Afro-futurist, Brantley’s energetic narratives combine realistic events with imaginative, fantastical fiction, to create fragmented compositions that evoke s...
Resin, Vinyl
Hebru Brantley Flyboy (Hebru Brantley art toy)
By Hebru Brantley
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Describing himself as an Afro-futurist, Brantley’s energetic narratives combine realistic events with imaginative, fantastical fiction, to create fragmented compositions that evoke s...
Resin, Vinyl
Hebru Brantley Flyboy Hebru Brantley Gaia set of 2 (Hebru Brantley art toys)
By Hebru Brantley
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Describing himself as an Afro-futurist, Brantley’s energetic narratives combine realistic events with imaginative, fantastical fiction, to create fragmented compositions that evoke s...
Vinyl
Signed Hebru Brantley Flyboy (Hebru Brantley art toy)
By Hebru Brantley
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Describing himself as an Afro-futurist, Brantley’s energetic narratives combine realistic events with imaginative, fantastical fiction, to create fragmented compositions that evoke s...
Resin, Vinyl
Hebru Brantley Flyboy & Drawing (Hebru Brantley art toy)
By Hebru Brantley
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Describing himself as an Afro-futurist, Brantley’s energetic narratives combine realistic events with imaginative, fantastical fiction, to create fragmented compositions that evoke s...
Resin, Vinyl
Chul-Su - Squid Game
By KAWS
Located in London, GB
This collaboration has resulted in the creation of vinyl figures that blend KAWS's distinctive COMPANION aesthetic with the original design of Chul-Su.
Resin, Vinyl
Young-Hee - Squid Game
By KAWS
Located in London, GB
This collaboration has resulted in the creation of vinyl figures that blend KAWS's distinctive COMPANION aesthetic with the original design of Young-Hee.
Resin, Vinyl
Hebru Brantley Flyboy set of 4 works (Hebru Brantley art toys)
By Hebru Brantley
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Describing himself as an Afro-futurist, Brantley’s energetic narratives combine realistic events with imaginative, fantastical fiction, to create fragmented compositions that evoke s...
Resin, Vinyl
KAWS Red Blush companions (complete set of 2 works KAWS Companion)
By KAWS
Located in NEW YORK, NY
KAWS Red Blush Companions: complete set of 2 works: New and sealed in their original packaging.
Resin, Vinyl
KAWS Along The Way: complete set of 3 (KAWS Companion Along The Way set)
By KAWS
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Along the Way presents a unique pose for KAWS’s signature Companion characters. KAWS' design features two of his iconic companions leaning on each other for emotional support, hands ...
Resin, Vinyl
KAWS Japan Holiday Companion (KAWS brown Mount Fuji companion)
By KAWS
Located in NEW YORK, NY
KAWS Brown Holiday Companion (KAWS Mount Fuji Japan): This sold out figurine features KAWS' signature character COMPANION in a resting position.
Resin, Vinyl
KAWS Holiday Companion Japan complete set of 3 works (KAWS Mount Fuji Japan)
By KAWS
Located in NEW YORK, NY
KAWS Holiday Companion Japan: Complete Set of 3 (KAWS Mount Fuji): This sold out complete set features KAWS' signature character COMPANION in a resting position.
Resin, Vinyl
KAWS Clean Slate Set of 2 (KAWS brown & black clean slate companion)
By KAWS
Located in NEW YORK, NY
KAWS is perhaps best known for his iconic character, Companion, which is featured in key paintings, sculptures, products, and toy figures.
Resin, Vinyl
In the beginning, Brian Donnelly was just a kid from Jersey City, New Jersey, who got into the graffiti thing. KAWS was his tag, chosen simply because he liked the way it looked. Today, KAWS creates all kinds of art — there are KAWS figures and toys, sculptures and colorful drawings, paintings and prints that appropriate pop phenomena like the Smurfs, the Simpsons and SpongeBob SquarePants.
In the late 1990s, the artist, a 1996 graduate of New York’s School of Visual Arts, was making a living as an illustrator for the animation studio Jumbo Pictures. Like young Hansel and Gretel with their trail of crumbs, KAWS would mark the morning route to his downtown Manhattan office with “subvertising,” “interrupting” fashion advertisements by adding his colorful character Bendy, its sinuous length sliding playfully around the likes of a Calvin Klein perfume bottle or supermodel Christy Turlington.
These creations gained a following, to the point where work posted in the morning would disappear by lunchtime. Even in those early days, KAWS was hot on the resale market.
“When I was doing graffiti,” he once explained, “it meant nothing to me to make paintings if I wasn’t reaching people.”
Instead of seeking entrée to the elite New York art world (which, frankly, wasn’t looking for a street artist anyway), KAWS moved to Japan, where a flourishing youth culture welcomed visionaries like him.
In 1999, he partnered with Bounty Hunter, a Japanese toy and streetwear brand, to release his first toy. Companion — an eight-inch-tall vinyl reimagining of Mickey Mouse, with a skull-and-crossbones head and trademark XX eyes — debuted with a limited run of 500. It sold out quickly.
Companion was the first of more than 130 toy designs, which came to include such characters as Chum, Blitz, Be@rbrick, BFF and Milo, each immediately recognizable as KAWS figures by their XX eyes. Fans have proved insatiable. In 2017, MoMA’s online store announced the availability of a limited supply of KAWS Companion figures; as avid collectors logged on to stake their claim, the website crashed — multiple times.
Companion is the most visible of the KAWS posse, appearing over the past decade in new postures and combinations in monumental KAWS statues and other works. These include Along the Way (2013), an 18-foot-tall wooden sculpture of two Companions leaning on each other for support; Together (2016), two Companions in a friendly embrace, which debuted during an exhibition of KAWS’s work at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, in Texas; and KAWS:HOLIDAY (2018), a 92-foot-long inflatable Companion floating on its back in Seoul’s Seokchon Lake. The sculptures were re-created as toys, blurring the lines between art and commerce.
KAWS’s visual language may be drawn from cartoons, but his work doesn’t necessarily evoke childlike joy.
“My figures are not always reflecting the idealistic cartoon view that I grew up on,” he explains in the catalogue for the Fort Worth exhibition. “Companion is more real in dealing with contemporary human circumstances . . . . I think when I’m making work it also often mirrors what’s going on with me at that time.”
KAWS's résumé reads like a record of major 21st-century pop-culture moments. It includes his work with streetwear brands like A Bathing Ape and Supreme; his design for the cover of Kanye West’s 2008 album, 808s & Heartbreak; and his collaboration with designer Kim Jones on the Dior Homme Spring/Summer 2019 collection, Jones’s debut as the fashion brand’s creative director.
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