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David Choe (born 1976, Los Angeles, California) is an American painter, muralist, graffiti artist and graphic novelist of Korean descent.[1] He achieved art world success with his "dirty style" figure paintings—raw, frenetic works which combine themes of desire, degradation, and exaltation.[2] Outside of galleries, he is closely identified with the bucktoothed whale he has been spray-painting on the streets since he was in his teens.[3]
Choe's work appears in a wide variety of urban culture and entertainment contexts. For example, he provided the cover art for Jay-Z and Linkin Park's multi-platinum album Collision Course, and created artwork to decorate the sets of Juno and The Glass House.[4] In 2005, internet entrepreneur Sean Parker, a longtime fan,[5] asked him to paint graphic sexual murals in the interior of Facebook's first Silicon Valley office,[6] and in 2007, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg commissioned him to paint somewhat tamer murals for their next office.[7] Those murals were loosely re-created by Choe's friends Rob Sato and Joe To for the set of the film The Social Network.[8] According to various media sources, Choe chose to receive company stock in payment for the Facebook murals. His shares were valued at approximately $200 million on the eve of Facebook's 2012 IPO.[9] During the 2008 presidential race, Choe painted a portrait of then-Senator Barack Obama for use in a grassroots street art campaign. The original was displayed in the White House.[10] OFFICIAL WEBSITE.