![]() ![]() ![]() His prolific collaboration with fashion brands ranging from Dior to Supreme to Uniqlo, as well as consumer goods companies like Hennessy, seems only to reinforce his work’s appeal for his collectors, many of whom are celebrities. Last spring, at Sotheby’s in Hong Kong, one of his paintings sold at auction for nearly fifteen million US dollars. Until the inevitable bidding war among mega-galleries over his future is settled, he’ll have to make do with exclusive representation by the Upper East Side powerhouse Skarstedt. This summer, KAWS departed from the elite Perrotin gallery after eleven years and nine solos at the gallery’s locations around the world. ![]() The Brooklyn Museum, having hosted one of them in 2015, will open a “major retrospective” in 2021. The artist, 45, has had eight separate museum solo exhibitions. If there are art world gatekeepers intent on excluding Brian Donnelly, who has worked under the name KAWS since the mid-1990s, it should be clear by now that they are fighting a losing battle. ![]()
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