Robbie Conal

born: 1944 , New York, NY.
Grew up in New York City--parents were both union organizers.
High School of Music and Art (1961).
Moved to San Francisco in 1963. He was an original hippie.
BFA: San Francisco State University (1969).
Master of Fine Arts: Stanford University (1978).
1984: Moved to Los Angeles. Angered by the Reagan Administration, Robbie made satirical posters of politicians and bureaucrats who, by his standards, had abused their power in the name of representative democracy. He developed an irregular guerrilla army of volunteers, putting posters up in the streets of major cities around the country. Robbie has made more than 75 posters satirizing politicians from both parties, televangelists and global capitalists. He has also taken on censorship, the Supreme Court and environmental issues.

Robbie has gained national prominence as the country's premiere guerrilla political poster artist. The Washington Post has called him, “America’s foremost street artist”—His work has been featured on "CBS This Morning", "Charlie Rose" and in Time, Newsweek, The New York Times, LA Times and The Wall Street Journal, Vanity Fair, People Magazine, Interview, and so forth.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York) owns 12
prints of his satirical portraits.

Awards:
National Endowment for the Arts Individual Artist Grant, a Getty Individual Artist Grant and a Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Individual Artist's Grant (COLA).