ART

Hard Rock Stadium partnered with Goldman Global Arts (GGA) for one of the world’s largest indoor street art galleries. Stephen Ross, inspired by the murals that adorn Wynwood Arts District, tapped GGA for the curation of 19 murals by 18 artists from 10 different countries to transform the facility into a vibrant, monumental public art experience. The landmark #ArtUnexpected project looks to create an artistic legacy and cement Hard Rock Stadium as an iconic, world–class venue that reflects Miami’s cultural significance in music, sports, entertainment and the arts.

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Miami Gardens

CASE (Germany)

CASE has been a photo-realism pioneer for more than two decades, primarily using the medium of spray paint to embrace the power of movement through the universality of hands. He communicates strong messages of unity and power by overlapping hands — leaving the viewer to visualize their own story. Having worked in more than 20 countries, he has literally left his fingerprints in each, continuously leaving bits and pieces of a language understood by all.

Located at NE on the 100 level

FIN

POSE (USA)

Modern pop artist POSE has been applauded for his inventive ability to take everyday, “throw-away” items and introduce them into the world to communicate something much deeper. His work relies on harnessing very simple human emotions like love, loss and triumph, presented in a complex union of vivid colors and layered application that aims for something much more profound than what’s at the literal, surface level.

Located at SE on the 100 level

The Touchdown

THE LONDON POLICE (UK)

The London Police are a fearless British Street Art collective who have been making themselves known across the walls of Europe since 1998. The bold simplicity, slick line work and iconic LAD motifs have now grown iconic the world over and are a particularly dominant presence throughout Amsterdam, the collective’s adoptive home.

Located at NW on the 100 level

Stay Curious

1010 (Germany)

1010, pronounced “ten-ten,” is a Hamburg-based contemporary artist known for his enigmatic, portal-like street art illusions on walls around the world. 1010 is widely recognized for his amazing works that trick the mind to appear like holes and three-dimensional shapes on walls. 1010 works out from the dark center of his image, layer by layer, to reach the lightest shades of color on the periphery of the piece, creating vortexes that burrow their way into buildings playing with time and space.

Located at 145 on the 100 level

KIKI & MARIA

MOMO (USA)

MOMO is an artist working in public spaces with homemade tools. His current interests lie with an evolving range of adapted masonry techniques to draft, design and organize 2 & 3D compositions. Born in San Francisco in 1974, MOMO has travelled most of his life, lived in New York for six years and currently keeps a studio in New Orleans.

Located on the ground floor at NW terrace exterior

The Waterway

LOGAN HICKS (USA)

Logan Hicks is a New York-based stencil artist whose work explores the dynamics of the urban environment. Stenciling started as a substitution for screen-printing, but quickly morphed into Logan’s medium of choice. With his photorealistic style, Logan draws a parallel between the cold, harsh city and a warm, vibrant organism. It is alive; a breathing creature where the ebb and flow of people washing over its sidewalks act as cells circulating through its veins.

Located at the North elevator on the 100 level

Drip Down

JEN STARK (USA)

Jen Stark was born in Miami, Fla. in 1983 and received her BFA from Maryland Institute College of Art in 2005, majoring in Fibers with a minor in Animation. Her artwork mimics intricate patterns and colors found in nature while exploring ideas of replication and infinity. Stark is exhibited globally and her work is included in The Smithsonian, The West Collection, Crystal Bridges Museum, The Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale and MOCA Miami among others.

Located at 104 on the 100 level

All The Way

DASIC FERNANDEZ (Chile)

Dasic Fernández cannot remember precisely how or when he became an artist. He began painting by graffiti-tagging buildings with the stylized letters of his name. At the University of Chile in Santiago, where he studied architecture, he explored the impact of art on urban spaces while experimenting with content, themes and style for his own art. Dasic prefers street art because it contains the essential quality of providing a space in which to connect with the public directly.

Located at 147 on the 100 level

Don Shula

VHILS (Portugal)

Portuguese visual artist Alexandre Farto aka Vhils (1987) has developed a unique visual language based on the removal of the surface layers of walls and other media with non-conventional tools and techniques, establishing symbolic reflections on identity, life in the urban context, the passage of time, and the relationship of interdependence between people and the surrounding environment.

Located outside the 72 Club

Assume vivid astro focus

(Brazil/France)

Assume vivid astro focus is comprised of Eli Sudbrack and Christophe Hamaide-Pierson. Eli was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and works between São Paulo and New York. Christophe was born in Paris where he lives and works. Personal expression and a lust for life feature prominently in projects simultaneously rooted in the politics of free speech, civil rights and the dissolution of rigid classifications of class, gender and national identity.

Mural #1: amorous voluminous atrocious ferocious, Located on the 200 level SW helix

Mural #2: another vivacious admiring friend, Located NE helix on the 200 level

Paint War 101

CRASH (USA)

Born John Matos in 1961, CRASH was raised in the Bronx, N.Y. At the age of 13, he began following the older teens from his neighborhood to the train yards and began bombing. Taking the name “CRASH” after he accidentally crashed the computer in his school, his name began appearing on trains circulating all throughout New York City. By 1980, CRASH transitioned from train yards to galleries curating the groundbreaking show “Graffiti Art Success for America” at Fashion Moda.

Located on the ground floor at the NE Terrace exterior

End of Summer

HOW & NOSM (Germany)

How & Nosm are identical twin brothers known for their large-scale murals that adorn city walls around the world. The red, black and white-based imagery is instantly recognizable and commands attention through the impressive size and the intricate detail. Born in Spain, German in heritage and currently residing in New York, their influence appropriately extends inter-nationally. Their style is essentially who they are as artists and people as a grittiness is hidden beneath levels of thoughtful design and bold form.

Located on the 100 level

PETER TUNNEY

(USA)

Founding partner of Goldman Global Arts, Peter Tunney is a N.Y. based artist-entrepreneur and social activist. He opened his unique studio inside the Wynwood Walls in 2009.

Canvas #1: GAME TIME, located in the NINE

Canvas #2: American Flag, located on the ground floor at North Sideline Club

XX-XY

HUEMAN (USA)

Allison Torneros, aka HUEMAN, grew up drawing and painting in Northern California, and received her degree in Design/Media Arts from UCLA in 2008. Whether she is creating delicate visions on canvas or crushing massive walls with a spray can, she often draws on the human condition to create colorful mash-ups of the abstract and figurative, and the beautiful and grotesque. HUEMAN’S unique freestyle process involves creating tightly refined compositions from a spontaneous beginning of paint splashes, drips and sprays.

Located at the 72 Club

Stadium Optichrome

FELIPE PANTONE (Argentina)

Felipe Pantone is an Argentinian-born artist, active in the fields of kinetic art, installations, graffiti and design. His style is characterized by the use of bold colors, geometric patterns and Op Art elements. Straddling conventional graffiti, typography and abstraction, his work fuses bold elements of graphic design with highly evolved geometric shapes to create an ultra-modern aesthetic that complements and reacts with the stark modernity of our cityscapes.

Located on the ground floor at North Sideline Club

Victory

TRISTAN EATON (USA)

LA-born Tristan Eaton started pursuing street art as a teenager, painting everything from billboards to dumpsters. Today, Eaton is most recognized for his large-scale mural work featuring a meticulous, visual collage of pop imagery executed with freehand spray paint on a colossal scale. His work can be found in dozens of cities across the globe from Paris to Shanghai, as well as the Museum of Modern Art’s (MoMA) permanent collection.

Located on the 300 level at the North elevator

FINTAN MAGEE

(Australia)

Fintan Magee is a muralist based in Sydney, Australia. Born in 1985 in Lismore, New South Wales, to an architect mother and father who was a sculptor, he started drawing at a young age and became involved in the Australian graffiti scene at 13. Drawing from personal experience and the mundane, his figurative paintings are deeply integrated with the urban environment and explore themes of waste, consumption, loss, transition and the environment.

Mural #1: Australia, located on the 200 level NW helix

Mural #2: Daily Routine, located on the 200 level SE helix