Ron English Art
American, b. 1966
Ron English (b. 1959) is a pioneering American contemporary artist who explores the intersection of street art, brand imagery, superhero comics, art history, advertising, and politics. His cheeky interpretation of Pop Art comes alive in vibrant drawings, paintings, and murals. English’s imagery is found on the street, in museums, in movies, books, and television. His irreverent, imagined characters include MC Supersized, the obese fast-food mascot featured in Morgan Spurlock’s 2004 documentary Super Size Me, and Abraham Obama, a mischievous hybrid of the 16th and 44th U.S. presidents. Sociocultural commentary underscores his work, exemplified by his iteration of Ronald McDonald as a western culture “Buddha” gorging McDonald’s to expose the insatiable slothfulness of consumerism.
English transformed his early experience as an art reproducer to become a founding co-creator of illegal public art campaigns in the early 1980s. His controversial street art activities are the subject matter and explored extensively in POPaganda - The Art & Crimes of Ron English, a documentary directed by Pedro Carvajal. An acclaimed outlaw artist, English never became an official member, but he has participated with the Billboard Liberation Front, which practices culture jamming by altering billboards to change keywords and radically alter the message, often to make an anti-corporate statement. He frequently targets corporations and their mascots, including Joe Camel and Mickey Mouse. English seeks to inspire people to question consumer capitalism through his exaggerated, grotesque characters.
English is a masterful oil painter working in a photorealist style. After earning a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of North Texas in Denton, and an MFA from The University of Texas, English moved to New York City, where he apprenticed with several artists and started selling his own work. English reworks art historical imagery, such as depictions of Picasso’s Guernica, as a template to explore universal issues. English’s work is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, Paris, the Whitney Museum of Modern Art in New York, and the Paterson Museum in Paterson, New Jersey. He has exhibited at the Station Museum in Houston and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Washington DC. In November of 2021, English’s enormous immersive installation Sugar Circus opened an exhibition at The Nest in Q Plex in Nanshan District in Shenzhen, China. His work has been featured in solo and group shows around the world.(Biography provided by Chase Contemporary)
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Artist: Ron English
Returnable Items Only
Combrat Boy
By Ron English
Located in Miami, FL
TECHNICAL INFORMATION
Ron English
Combrat Boy
2015
3D Lenticular archival inks on PETG Plastic
36 x 24 in.
Edition of 10
Signed and numbered on verso
Accompanied with COA by G...
Category
2010s Street Art Ron English Art
Materials
Lenticular
tribute to Andy
By Ron English
Located in PARIS, FR
Mix Media Resin Painted and Synthetic Wig
The vanity, 35cm high, come inside a protective plexyglass cap with LED , 65cm high x 54cm large x 45cm deep and stand on a base with mirror...
Category
2010s Pop Art Ron English Art
Materials
Resin
Ron English x Clutter – Lady Lips OG Colorway Vinyl Sculpture
By Ron English
Located in Dallas, TX
This inspired distillation of the rock and roll lifestyle is one of English’s best-loved and most collected images. World-renowned as a fine art painter and designer, Ron English col...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Ron English Art
Materials
Plastic, PVC
vanity StarWars
By Ron English
Located in PARIS, FR
Mix Media Resin Painted Chromed and DiamondsStrass
The vanity, 35cm high, come inside a protective plexyglass cap with LED , 65cm high x 54cm large x 45cm deep and stand on a base w...
Category
2010s Pop Art Ron English Art
Materials
Resin
vanity StarWars
By Ron English
Located in PARIS, FR
Mix Media Resin Painted Chromed and DiamondsStrass
The vanity, 35cm high, come inside a protective plexyglass cap with LED , 65cm high x 54cm large x 45cm deep and stand on a base w...
Category
2010s Pop Art Ron English Art
Materials
Resin
vanity StarWars
By Ron English
Located in PARIS, FR
Mix Media Resin Painted Chromed and DiamondsStrass
The vanity, 35cm high, come inside a protective plexyglass cap with LED , 65cm high x 54cm large x 45cm deep and stand on a base w...
Category
2010s Pop Art Ron English Art
Materials
Resin
tribute to Andy
By Ron English
Located in PARIS, FR
Mix Media Resin Painted and Synthetic Wig
The vanity, 35cm high, come inside a protective plexyglass cap with LED , 65cm high x 54cm large x 45cm deep and stand on a base with mirror...
Category
2010s Pop Art Ron English Art
Materials
Resin
tribute to Andy
By Ron English
Located in PARIS, FR
Mix Media Resin Painted and Synthetic Wig
The vanity, 35cm high, come inside a protective plexyglass cap with LED , 65cm high x 54cm large x 45cm deep and stand on a base with mirror...
Category
2010s Pop Art Ron English Art
Materials
Resin
Collaboration with Staple Vinyl Pigeon Grin Sculpture Ron English Rainbow Pop
By Ron English
Located in Draper, UT
The American pop iconoclast popularised by his signature fusion of varying cultural touchstones features themes from current pop icons to past historical art figures...
Category
2010s Ron English Art
Materials
Vinyl
Rainbow Elvis II
By Ron English
Located in Miami, FL
TECHNICAL INFORMATION
Ron English
Rainbow Elvis II
2012
Monoprint Hand-painted Screenprint with Watercolor Dyes
37 1/2 x 17 in.
Unique
Pencil signed & numbered
Accompanied wi...
Category
2010s Street Art Ron English Art
Materials
Screen
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Previously Available Items
Mona Lisa Grin (44/100)
By Ron English
Located in Dallas, TX
Archival Pigment Print on 290gsm Moab Fine Art Paper
Size: 18 x 27 Inches
Release: April 01, 2020
Auth: This RUN is signed, numbered and comes with a Certificate of Authenticity from...
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Cowgirl
By Ron English
Located in Dallas, TX
Pink Canvas With A Green Woman With A Cow Head
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Police Grin (Bone)
By Ron English
Located in Dallas, TX
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Little Cult Man
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Located in Dallas, TX
Little cult man on blotter paper.
Edition 21/50.
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Temper Tot Rising
By Ron English
Located in Dallas, TX
Signature psycho baby on blotter paper.
Edition 75/75.
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Ms Supersized Dissect- Purple Variant
By Ron English
Located in Dallas, TX
Archival Pigment Print on 290gsm Moab Fine Art Paper
Size: 18 x 24 Inches
Release: December 11, 2019
Run of: 40
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Rabbit #2
By Ron English
Located in Dallas, TX
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Young Andy
By Ron English
Located in Dallas, TX
An artist's take on another young artist
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21st Century and Contemporary Ron English Art
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Acrylic
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