Lady Pink

This spring, graffiti artist and painter Lady Pink (Ecuadorian-American, b. 1964) will create a new mural facing the public plaza at MoMA PS1’s main entrance, welcoming visitors to the museum. The mural weaves together imagery emblematic of Pink’s practice—surreal brick structures, New York City skylines, and the 7 train—in an homage to 5Pointz and the history of New York as an embattled and complicated site of creative experimentation. Born in Ecuador and raised in Astoria, Queens, Lady Pink started writing graffiti as a teenager in 1979. One of the only women embraced by the graffiti scene at that time, she painted subway cars across the city with her signature tag: Pink. She also became deeply involved in 5Pointz, a contested building formerly located across Jackson Avenue from MoMA PS1, whose facade was an important site for graffiti art and muralism from the 1990s until 2013, when it was demolished to make way for a residential highrise. Lady Pink pays homage to this history in her new mural for PS1, which features a colossal foot built of stone masonry, emblazoned with the tags of iconic 5Pointz artists.

Lady Pink’s project marks the inaugural MoMA PS1 Plaza Mural, an annual commission juried by local cultural leaders including curators, organizers, and artists.

Lady Pink (Ecuadorian-American, b. 1964) is an artist who began writing graffiti in 1979. Pink painted subway trains from the years 1979–85, and starred in the film Wild Style (1982). In 1981, her earliest canvases were exhibited in New York/New Wave at PS1. Her work has been exhibited in solo exhibitions at Moore College of Art, Philadelphia, and is in the collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; The Brooklyn Museum; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; and the Groningen Museum, The Netherlands. In 2025, Pink’s work was featured in Above Ground: Art from the Martin Wong Graffiti Collection at the Museum of the City of New York. She shares her 42 years of experience with teens by holding mural workshops and lectures globally.