“CREATE YOUR OWN REALITY is the mantra I live by…”

Billy the Artist (BTA) is an international artist whose studio is based in the East Village of New York City. His projects and designs have been seen all over the world for such clients as Swatch, The Nescafe Champs World Snowboarding Championship, Suzuki, Hyundai, Mountain Dew, MTV, Microsoft, and Fashion Week Athens and Madrid.  Mural projects include Woodstock 99, Art Basel Miami, Delaguarda, The Rio Casino Las Vegas, and the Broadway, National, and London productions of RENT. His paintings have hung at the prestigious Forbes Gallery as well as galleries in New York, Chicago, Miami, Orlando, New Orleans, Austin, Cleveland, and at Carib Fine Art in Curacao and Gallerie Foxx in Zurich. Billy has been published in Rolling Stone Vanity Fair, Vogue, Juxtapoz, The New York Times, and numerous other magazines and newspapers around the globe. For the world launch of Billy’s watches for Swatch, he painted a 40x30 foot mural live in front of 30,000 people while 300 foot animated projections of his work adorned the walls of Piazza San Marco in Venice, Italy during the Venice Biennale. Recently Billy was one of the first American Artists allowed by the Chinese government to paint live on the famous Bund for the opening of the Swatch Art Peace Hotel in Shanghai, China.Gen Art and smart are thrilled to introduce Gen Art Detour presented by smart, to make its debut at the SCOPE art fair in Miami, featuring Billy the Artist as one of the chosen emerging artists to custom wrap a smart car with their design.

To see more of Billy the Artist’s work, visit his website here.

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