Michael Anthony Pegues (born May 11, 1962) is an African American visual artist living in New York City.
He attended alternative High School Redirection in Brownsville, Brooklyn, and later Nassau Community College, in Garden City, New York, on Long Island.
[1] Self-taught, modern-day Fauve, Expressionist as well as Pop artist, contemporary of Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring, his work is strongly influenced by Hip Hop and Graffiti.
[2][3][4] His work was exhibited in Italy, his first solo show abroad, in 2014 at Le 4 Pareti: galleria d'arte, Napoli, April 5–17.
He has collaborated with the artist Cinthus (aka Martin H.Leff-Cinthus)[11] and the writer Tom Mathew, illustrating the latter's children's book The Magic Rug: A Christmas Story[12] (Staten Island, New York: Trademark Universal, Inc., 2010).