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Banksy is a pseudonymous England-based street artist, political activist, and film director whose real name and identity remain unconfirmed and the subject of speculation.[2] Active since the 1990s, his satirical street art and subversive epigrams combine dark humour with graffiti executed in a distinctive stenciling technique. His works of political and social commentary have appeared on streets, walls, and bridges throughout the world.[3] Banksy's work grew out of the Bristol underground scene, which involved collaborations between artists and musicians.[4] Banksy says that he was inspired by 3D, a graffiti artist and founding member of the musical group Massive Attack.[5]

Banksy
Banksy art on Brick Lane, East End, 2004
Born
Bristol, England
Nationality
British
Known for
Street art
Banksy displays his art on publicly visible surfaces such as walls and self-built physical prop pieces. Banksy no longer sells photographs or reproductions of his street graffiti, but his public "installations" are regularly resold, often even by removing the wall they were painted on.[6] A small number of Banksy's works are officially, non-publicly, sold through an agency created by Banksy named Pest Control.[7] Banksy's documentary film Exit Through the Gift Shop (2010) made its debut at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival.[8] In January 2011, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature for the film.[9] In 2014, he was awarded Person of the Year at the 2014 Webby Awards.

Identity
Banksy's name and identity remain unconfirmed and the subject of speculation. In a 2003 interview with Simon Hattenstone of The Guardian, Banksy is described as "white, 28, scruffy casual—jeans, T-shirt, a silver tooth, silver chain and silver earring. He looks like a cross between Jimmy Nail and Mike Skinner of the Streets." Banksy began as an artist at the age of 14, was expelled from school, and served time in prison for petty crime. According to Hattenstone, "anonymity is vital to him because graffiti is illegal".[11] Banksy reportedly lived in Easton, Bristol during the late 1990s, before moving to London around 2000.[12][13][14]

Banksy is commonly believed to be Robin Gunningham, as first identified by The Mail on Sunday in 2008,[15] born on 28 July 1973 in Yate, 12 miles (19 km) from Bristol.[16][17][12] Several of Gunningham's associates and former schoolmates at Bristol Cathedral School have corroborated this, and in 2016, a study by researchers at the Queen Mary University of London using geographic profiling found that the incidence of Banksy's works correlated with the known movements of Gunningham.[18][19][20][21] According to The Sunday Times, Gunningham began employing the name Robin Banks, which eventually became Banksy. Two cassette sleeves featuring his art work from 1993, for the Bristol band Mother Samosa, exist with his signature.[22] In June 2017, DJ Goldie referred to Banksy as "Rob".[23]

There has been alternative speculation that Banksy is:

In October 2014, an internet hoax circulated that Banksy had been arrested and his identity revealed.

At London Zoo, he climbed into the penguin enclosure and painted "We're bored of fish" in 7-foot-high (2.1 m) letters.[175]
At London Zoo, he left the message "I want out. This place is too cold. Keeper smells. Boring, boring, boring." in the elephant enclosure.[176]
In 2004, he placed the piece Banksus Militus Ratus into London's Natural History Museum.[177]
In March 2005, he placed subverted artworks in the Museum of Modern Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, and American Museum of Natural History in Manhattan as well as the Brooklyn Museum in Brooklyn.[178]
In May 2005 Banksy's version of a primitive cave painting depicting aList of Banksy Street Art
Map of Banksy Street Art in the UK
Birmingham
Christmas Reindeers – Vyse Street
Brighton
The Kissing Policeman – Trafalgar Street
Bristol
Aachoo – Vale Street, Totterdown
Angel Bust – Bristol Museum, Queens Road
Girl with a Pierced Eardrum – Hanover Place
Girl with a Stick – Bridge Farm Primary School
Marsh Lane Valentine – Barton Hill
Mild Mild West – Hamilton House
Rose Trap – Thomas Street
Well Hung Lover – College Green
Cromer
Croydon
Hanging Rat – Church Street
Great Yarmouth
Go Big or Go Home – Merrivale Model Village, Beach Parade
Tourist Grabber – Lower Prom, Gorleston
Flying Dinghy – Gorleston Splash Pad, Lower Prom, Gorleston
Hull
Draw the Raised Bridge
London
Banksy Basquiat – Golden Lane, Barbican
Designated Graffiti Area – Cargo on Rivington Street
Extinction Rebellion – Marble Arch
Falling Shopper – Bruton Lane, Mayfair
His Masters Voice – Cargo on Rivington Street
I Love London Robbo Rat – Chiswell Street
Phone Tap – Chrisp Street, Poplar
Crazy Beat Royal Family – Church Street, Stoke Newington
Snorting Copper – Curtain Road, Shoreditch
Yellow Lines Flower Painter – Pollard Row, Bethnal Green #art #Banksy