Michael Anthony Pegues

Michael Anthony Pegues (born May 11, 1962) is an African American visual artist living in New York City. Born and raised in Brooklyn, mother's family from Liberia, father's from Portugal, he attended alternative High School Redirection, Brownsville, Brooklyn, and later Nassau Community College, Garden City, LI.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. Pegues had his first major solo and retrospective show at the FB Gallery in New York in 2012, "Prince Michael’s Neverland: The Measure of an Artist: Michael Anthony Pegues," May 16 – June 3. His work was exhibited in Italy, his first solo show abroad, in 2014 at Le 4 Pareti: galleria d'arte, Napoli, April 5–17. His acrylic canvases, sculptures and assemblages have also been exhibited in New York at Aurora Gallery, Chelsea (under the graffiti tag Mazike), Jonathan Shorr Gallery, Soho, and the New York Public Library, among other places.

He has collaborated with the artist Cinthus (aka Martin H.Leff-Cinthus) and the writer Tom Mathew, illustrating the latter's children's book The Magic Rug: A Christmas Story (Staten Island, New York: Trademark Universal, Inc., 2010).

A prominent figure in the downtown art scene, he frequently attends gallery openings, receptions, fundraisers and other social functions, and has been photographed by the likes of nightlife photographer Patrick McMullan, Bill Farrell, Cojo "Art Juggernaut", and society photographer Annie Watt.

Tribeca Citizen, "Coming Up: Woodyfest, Juggling, Chely Wright," May 13, 2012, Arts & Culture, Events

Museum of Uncut Funk Press Release for FB Gallery Show

FB Gallery Closing Party

Francois B's Photostream: Michael Anthony Pegues, Tribeca, NYC 2012, Michael Anthony Pegues wearing the jacket he designed for his art exhibition at FB gallery (May 16 / June3), May 17, 2012

Michael Anthony Pegues alle 4 pareti a Napoli, Via Fiorelli 12/d, il 5 Aprile al 17 Aprile, 2014

Promo for Le 4 Pareti show

"Finding Yanelle NEW DAWN – NEW DAY, FB Gallery – Michael Anthony Pegues, Yanelle Dugar, July 8, 2012, 1:21pm". findingyanelle.com. Archived from the original on 2014-05-02. Retrieved 2014-05-01.

My Small Story: Over 300 Filmed New York Stories, "The Measure of Michael Anthony Pegues,"Unscripted Video Interview by LaRon Batchelor, May 16, 2012

Private Noise, "Michael Anthony Pegues listening to “Fool to Cry” by The Rolling Stones," by Sam Utne, July 26, 2011, 9AM

Dana's Dailies "100 Years from Now: Michael Anthony Pegues," by Dana Roc, Feb17, 2011, 8:22pm

@149st - The Cyber Bench: Documenting New York City Graffiti, Past Shows & Events, Aurora Gallery, 515 west 29th Street (10th-11th) presents "History in the Making Part III: Graffiti Got Game!," Featuring new basketball themed works of over twenty graffiti artists, Sept 9 - 30, 2005

"The Ground Magazine, In Editorial Submissions, Popular, Michael Anthony Pegues, THE MEASURE OF AN ARTIST, By Francois Baron, May 15, 2012". www.thegroundmag.co. Archived from the original on 2014-05-02. Retrieved 2014-05-01.

TimeOut New York, "Public Eye: Michael A. Pegues, 43, Sixth Avenue and West 4th Street," by Time Out editors (Howard Halle), Thu. Mar 23, 2006

Winter Walk, Photograph of artist in Bryant Parkby Leanne Staples, "Queen of Manhattan Street Photography,"December 16, 2013

New York Public Library, "Meet the Artist: Michael Pegues," by Sherri Liberman, Mulberry Branch, June 20, 2013

Art Slant: Michael Anthony Pegues

Official Website of Michael Anthony Pegues

"DEJAVU ART GALLERY - Michael Anthony Pegues:Blast from the Past - NYC GALLERY OPENINGS - August 27, 2016". youtube.com. Retrieved November 7, 2019.

"Michael Anthony Pegues @ DEJAVU - ArtisTalking, August 31, 2016". artistalking.blogspot.com. Retrieved November 7, 2019.

"These Artists Know How to Rock a Look on National Sunglasses Day". news.artnet.com, by Daniela Rios, June 27, 2016. Retrieved November 7, 2019.

"Introduction into the pop art of Michael Anthony Pegues". youtube.com, by Rasta Von, Feb 7, 2017. Retrieved November 7, 2019.

"The new museum art world of Michael Anthony Pegues art talk (soho new york city)". youtube.com, by Rasta Von, Mar 13, 2017. Retrieved November 7, 2019.

"Michael Anthony Pegues children's Roosevelt library art project". youtube.com, by Rasta Von, Dec 2, 2017. Retrieved November 7, 2019.

"Michael Anthony Pegues, Chelsea, NYC". The Dusty Rebel, Photograph by Daniel Albanese, Jan. 29 2018. Retrieved November 16, 2019.