Background
Conal"s parents were both union organizers, and he grew up in Manhattan.
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Robbie Conal
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He "graduated" in arts from San Francisco State University in 1969, although he was two credits short of a degree. After living briefly in Canada he obtained a Master of Fine Arts from Stanford University in 1978, and moved to the Los Angeles area in 1984, where he currently resides.
Career
A former hippie, he is noted for distributing his poster art throughout a city overnight using his "volunteer guerrilla postering army". Conal is an adjunct professor of painting and drawing at the University of Southern California"s Roski School of Fine Arts. Conal"s work has been featured in numerous publications, including Time, Newsweek, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, as well as Columbia Broadcasting System"s This Morning and Charlie Rose.
He was the subject of the 1992 documentary Post Number Bills directed by filmmaker Clay Walker.
He has also written three books, including Art Attack: The Midnight Politics Of A Guerrilla Artist Artburn, a collection of his work published in the alternative newspaper Los Angeles He has been awarded grants by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Getty Trust. In 2004, Conal joined artists Shepard Fairey and Mear One to create a series of "anti-war, anti-Bush" posters for a street art campaign called "Be the Revolution" for the art collective Post General
Conal was also one of the 112 members at the "Table of Free Voices" event in Berlin. His art is in the permanent collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art,, the San Jose Museum of Art, and the San Diego Museum of Artist
Conal"s posters have been prominently displayed in several major motion pictures, including, Sneakers, Falling Down, The Insider, Dead Presidents, Contagion, and The Sessions.
