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Jeremy Novy is San Francisco's koi street artist. Over 8,000 koi worldwide since 2006, each one encoding meaning through Chinese numerological symbolism. NEA-recognized twice.
Short paragraph
Jeremy Novy (b. 1979, Reedsburg, WI) is an American stencil street artist best known for koi fish iconography painted across San Francisco and worldwide. Over 8,000 of his koi exist globally, each one encoding meaning through Chinese numerological symbolism. A coded visual language he studied during a 2006 residency in Beijing. A pioneer of contemporary queer street art, Novy curated the world's first group queer street art exhibition, A History of Queer Street Art, which traveled from San Francisco and Los Angeles to Yale University in 2013. He is a two-time NEA grantee (2008, 2011) and has work in the permanent collections of the GLBT Historical Society, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, and the Museum of Sex.
Fact sheet
- Born
- 1979, Reedsburg, Wisconsin
- Based
- Cathedral City, California (studio); painting in San Francisco often
- Education
- BFA Photography, UWM Peck School of the Arts (2008)
- Active since
- 2006
- Koi count
- 8,000+ worldwide
- NEA Grants
- 2008, 2011
- SF Arts Commission
- Grant recipient
- Curator credit
- A History of Queer Street Art, SF → LA → Yale University (2013)
- Public commission
- Fulton Plaza Pioneer Monument · 2× 65-70ft koi · 2024
- Documentary credit
- I Am Divine (2013, Jeffrey Schwarz)
- Museum collections
- GLBT Historical Society SF · Yerba Buena Center for the Arts · Museum of Sex (NYC)
- Galleries
- Voss (SF) · Vertical (Chicago) · Gabba (LA) · Wallspace LA · Where Y'Art Works (NOLA)
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