FAHAMU PECOU
left: Role Model Citizen, 2009, acrylic &
gold paint on canvas, 70x49 "
center: I Against I, 2009, acrylic &
gold paint on canvas, 85x62"
right: Art Official Intelligence, 2009, acrylic
on canvas, 63x55"
Working as a graphic illustrator for various rap and hip-hop acts in Atlanta, Fahamu Pecou became interested in the self-marketing and persona
building antics of music and television celebrities. Pecou began an active
sticker and T-shirt campaign, Fahamu Pecou is the Shit which birthed
Pecou's art-star persona and filtered into a series of paintings depicting the artist himself on a number of different highbrow art and culture
periodicals such as, Artforum, Esopus, Flash Art and Interview.
Selected Exhibitions:
2010 Grambling State University, Grambling, LA
2009 Bell Roberts Gallery, Vlaeberg, Cape Province, South Africa
2009 Lyons Wier Gallery, New York, NY
2008 Austin Museum of Art, Austin, TX
2008 Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts, Brooklyn,
NY
2008 Amistad Center, Hartford, CT
2008 Flanders Gallery, Raleigh, NC
2008 Volta 5, Basel, Switzerland, with Lyons Wier Gallery, NY
2007 SWAB Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
2007 Lyons Weir Ortt Gallery, New York, NY
2007 Vankin Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2005 High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
2005 Michael Martin Galleries, San Francisco, CA
2005 Taller Portobelo, Portobelo, Panama