Mission School

This movement is generally considered to have emerged in the early 1990s around a core group of artists who attended (or were associated with) San Francisco Art Institute.

The term "Mission School", however, was not coined until 2002, in a San Francisco Bay Guardian article by Glen Helfand.

Several Mission School artists crossed over into San Francisco's burgeoning graffiti art scene of the 1990s, notably Barry McGee (who wrote under the name "Twist"), Ruby Neri (a.k.a.

[7][8] Artists considered to be part of the Mission School (past or present) have included:[3][4][9][10][11] The profiles of these artists were raised by the inclusion of the work of Barry McGee in the 2001 Venice Biennale[12] and the works of Chris Johanson and Margaret Kilgallen in the 2002 Whitney Biennial.

These artists included Andrew Schoultz, Dave Warnke, Sirron Norris, Neonski, Ricardo, Damon Soule, Misk, and NoMe, though many of these artists do not embrace the "Mission School" label.