About Artist/ Photographer Karen Bystedt
One of the first woman street artists to proliferate a male dominated space, Karen Bystedt's works collected by international renowned private and public collections : As seen in now historical exhibits that defines street art next To Retna, Cleon Peterson , Big Sleeps, Bradley Theodore, Gregory Siff , Add Fuel , Producer BDB and Speedy Graffito is Karen Bystedt. In the king list of names you’ll find this ingenious woman. Karen Bystedt’s photographs of Andy Warhol have transcended, from portraits taken by an NYU student student to an historical image used as the concluding image in Blake Gopnik's definitive biopic, WARHOL Harper Collins ( 2020). Bystedt photographed and immortalized Johnny Depp, Brad Pitt, Keanu Reeves and Djimon Hounsou in her book Before They Were Famous well before creating a massive contemporary archive re-identifying Warhols contributions with her contributions to the street art world opening the conversation of women breaking barriers in art, hip hop and pop culture today.
