Acting
Kunle Martins
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Acting
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4 titles
Kunle Martins is an American artist. He was born in 1980 in New York, where he currently lives and works. In 1997, Martins founded IRAK, a graffiti crew that included Dash Snow, Dan Colen and Ryan McGinley among others. As a graffiti artist, Martins gained notoriety tagging as Earsnot. More recently, Martins’ artistic practice has been based in portraiture. He has also collaborated with Dover Street Market, Supreme, and Adidas. Martins is represented by the New York gallery 56 HENRY.
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6.1Dash Snow rejected a life of privilege to make his own way as an artist on the streets of downtown New York City in the late 1990s. Developing from a notorious graffiti tagger into an international art star, he documented his drug- and alcohol-fueled nights with the surrogate family he formed with friends and fellow artists Ryan McGinley and Dan Colen before his death by heroin overdose in 2009. Drawing from Snow’s unforgettable body of work and involving archival footage, Cheryl Dunn’s exceptional portrait captures his all-too-brief life of reckless excess and creativity.
Moments Like This Never Last
2021
6.3A feature-length documentary about graffiti culture as told through the experiences of six well-known graffiti writers and a graffiti buffer.
Infamy
2005
8.5A video by William Strobeck for Supreme in Milan.
STALLION
2021
NRGroup show is a documentary featuring the practices of a handful of Peter Sutherland’s close friends, shot intimately between California and NYC between 2020 and 2022.
Group Show
2023
Film credits
2020s · 3 titles
6.1Dash Snow rejected a life of privilege to make his own way as an artist on the streets of downtown New York City in the late 1990s. Developing from a notorious graffiti tagger into an international art star, he documented his drug- and alcohol-fueled nights with the surrogate family he formed with friends and fellow artists Ryan McGinley and Dan Colen before his death by heroin overdose in 2009. Drawing from Snow’s unforgettable body of work and involving archival footage, Cheryl Dunn’s exceptional portrait captures his all-too-brief life of reckless excess and creativity.
Moments Like This Never Last
2021
8.5A video by William Strobeck for Supreme in Milan.
STALLION
2021
NRGroup show is a documentary featuring the practices of a handful of Peter Sutherland’s close friends, shot intimately between California and NYC between 2020 and 2022.
Group Show
2023