Robert Lederman Art

Robert Lederman is a New York street artist, printmaker and art activist who attended NYU and Pratt Institute. He is the President of A.R.T.I.S.T. (Artists Response To Illegal State Tactics), a group dedicated to First Amendment advocacy for street artists. Lederman has won four Federal lawsuits about artists’ free speech rights and the right to protest. He is perhaps best known as the artist who painted hundreds of satirical portraits of NYC Mayor Rudolph Giuliani. Giuliani had Lederman arrested, but never convicted, more than 40 times between 1994 and 2000. The Giuliani portraits appeared thousands of times in the media during the Giuliani era and were a constant subject of controversy during those years. His successful lawsuits made it legal to sell art on the street without a license, in NYC Parks without a permit and to protest without a permit on the steps of the U.S. Capitol.

(Biography provided by Robert Azensky Fine Art)