Born and raised in Cincinnati, OH, Hyland's films and fine art work has been viewed in numerous galleries and film exhibitions in the U.S. and Europe, which include The Rules of Space at The London Institute of Contemporary Arts, The 2003 Lost Film Festival European Tour,the Interventionists exhibition at the Massachusetts Museum of Modern Art , a two-person show at London’s gallery 88B, and Good World at Cincinnati's Publico Gallery, a companion show to the Aaron Rose-curated Beautiful Losers exhibition at Cincinnati's Contemporary Art Center Museum. Also, the 2003 NYC street art documentary “Public Discourse” featured work by Hyland. Last June, he was a featured guest on PBS’s Viewfinder, showcasing underground filmmakers. Hyland currently resides in Los Angeles, CA
- Joseph Whitely is well known as a graffiti artist and muralist who works and lives in Los Angeles, CA. He was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. He has exhibited throughout the United States and abroad including The Merry Karnowsky Gallery, 111 Minna Gallery, Arc Gallery, Fahrenheit, GV/AS Gallery, Triple Five Soul, among many others. Joseph Whiteley is a featured artist in the recent publication "Autograf" PowerHouse Books, 2004 and also recently made an appearance on NBC'S "The Apprentice" as a sought out graffiti artist for an upcoming Trump project. His previous solo and group shows have been reviewed in The New York Times, Juxtapoz, Ginko Press, Big Shot Magazine and others. His work is in both major private and public collections.
Born in Richmond, Virginia and grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio. He became heavily involved in the Cincinnati graffiti scene by the age of 15, using the name “VERBS” as his alias. In the fall of 1998, he left Cincinnati for Brooklyn, where he was accepted for enrollment at Pratt Institute. On a summer trip home after his second semester at college, he decided to drop the alias “VERBS” altogether and create his new street-art under the pen-name “Darius Jones,” while making a transition from traditional graffiti methods to his more current steel sculpture and roller pieces. He recently attended and received an M.A. in Fine Art from Central Saint Martins School of Art and Design in London, in the class of 2004. His work has been featured in publications such as Creative Review, The New York Times, Yellow Rat Bastard, WoosterCollective.com and many others. Jones currently resides in Brooklyn, NY.
WHEN
Born in Louisville, Kentucky, then later attending
art school in Cincinnati,
Ohio, WHEN began writing graffiti in the late ‘90’s and never
looked back. His
pieces have since become a regular fixture at the annual Scribble Jam
hip-hop
festival, while his work has also appeared in Juxtapoz, Scribble magazine,
Beautiful/Decay, Clout and several other graffiti publications as well
as in the
up-coming book about the DF crew, "Idiots on Parade". His fine
art work has
shared gallery walls with graffiti legends such as Zephyr, Doze Green
and the
Barnstormers, Dalek, East, Sub, Cycle, and Cope2.
Born and raised in Cincinnati, Ohio, FIVE has also been known as DRANE by many. He has painted Cincinnati several times over while also making his mark in NYC and appearing in numerous graffiti magazines, such as Scribble and Life Sucks Die in the late ‘90’s as well as a million other nooks and crannies across the country. His fine art work has shown in numerous galleries, including Publico as part of the “Good World” show, a satellite exhibit in conjunction with the 2004 opening of the Beautiful Losers exhibition at Cincinnati’s Contemporary Art Center. FIVE himself has also appeared in videos for “While You Were Sleeping” and a handful of news programs to speak about graffiti. He currently resides in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Cobra Kai
Cobra Kai was a hard-core band from Cincinnati that featured WHEN on drums.
A young odd nosdam began meddling with machines in the mid-90's, looping his favorite Nirvana riffs and Black Moon beats on a Sega Genesis and filling tape after tape with noise collages. In his early 20's, while attending the Art Academy of Cincinnati, this passion bloomed into utter fixation when he purchased a Dr. Sample and Tascam cassette 8-track, and soon after met and collaborated with doseone and why? on their fabled greenthink tapes. In March of 2001, after compiling five collections of short-attention-span instrumental pieces, producing the highly-acclaimed cLOUDDEAD self-titled debut as well as co-producing reaching quiet 's in the shadow of the living room LP, he left mom's house for the sunnier environs—both artistically and stratospherically—of Berkeley, California, around which the rest of anticon. had already begun to settle.