Llyn Foulkes (born 17 November 1934, in Yakima, Washington) is an American artist living and working in Los Angeles.
As a student at Chouinard Art Institute (now CalArts), Foulkes began exhibiting with the Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles in 1959.
By 1979, Foulkes had returned to his childhood interest in one-man bands and began playing solo with "The Machine," which he created.
Llyn Foulkes was a participant and performer at dOCUMENTA (13), Kassel, Germany in 2012 and was the subject of a major retrospective which started in February 2013 at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles.
The documentary LLYN FOULKES ONE MAN BAND,[3] directed by Tamar[4] Halpern and Chris Quilty, is available on iTunes[5] and Netflix.