Mark Kostabi

American, born 1960. Kalev Mark Kostabi is a composer and artist famous for his artworks featuring faceless figures that offer a mannequin-like appearance. These faceless artworks often convey psychological, social, and political issues. The visual style in Mark Kostabi‘s artwork portrays inspiration from the works of Fernand Léger and Giorgio de Chirico and offers surrealistic landscape settings. Apart from traditional art, the artist has created illustrations for album covers for notable bands like Guns N' Roses, Seether, The Ramones, Glint, Jimmy Scott, Psychotica and RK: Roman Klun. He also made designs for Swatch watches, Rosenthal espresso cups, Giro d'Italia pink jersey, Alessi vases, and Ritzenhoff milk glasses.

Mark Kostabi’s artwork for sale feature variable themes like technology, love, and suicide. He is famously associated with his artwork Use Your Illusion- also an album cover for Guns N’ Roses with a similar name. He was born in Los Angeles, CA, on November 27, 1960. Kostabi’s parents were Estonian immigrants. He attended the California State University in Fullerton and later in 1982 moved to New York. In 1984, the artist was a prominent member of the East Village cultural art scene and won East Village Eye "Proliferation Prize" for participating in most art competitions among other artists from New York. The artist also collaborated with Enzo Cucchi, Tadanori Yokoo, Howard Finster, Paul Kostabi, and Enrico Baj. During his artistic career, Kostabi became a controversial personality in the media when he claimed credit for artworks created by Kostabi’s assistants.

The artist currently resides in New York. Today, Mark Kostabi‘s artwork is on display at the Princeton University Art Museum, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, The Museum of Modern Art in New York, and others. Collectors can find Mark Kostabi‘s artwork at auctions online on leading art gallery channels.