Mr Brainwash

Mr Brainwash (real name Thierry Guetta) is a French street and pop artist who rose to fame through his collaboration with Banksy in the 2010 Academy-nominated documentary Exit Through the Gift Shop. He was both featured in and responsible for the filming of the project.
The artist’s debut exhibition Life is Beautiful (2008) had sales of five figures for single works and received praise from British street artist Banksy.
The following year, Madonna commissioned Mr Brainwash to design the cover for her album Celebration. His major auction debut occurred at Philips in 2010 where Charlie Chaplin Pink sold for $122,500, from an upper estimate of $70,000. He currently lives and works in Los Angeles.
Mr Brainwash is changing the face of street art as it is represented in UK galleries with his unique brand of positivity and his bold artworks built around such messages of hope as ‘Life is beautiful’, ‘never give up’ or follow your dreams’. Innovative and fearless, his work embraces a riot of themes and styles, statements and jokes, commentary and chaos; combining elements from pop art’s past, from classical paintings and from the raw components of his street art beginnings, he creates larger-than-life celebrations of culture, imagination and sheer audacity.