Michael Christopher Tracy (February 14, 1958 – September 3, 2023), [1] known as Tracy 168, was an American graffiti artist. He pioneered the art form known as wildstyle. Tracy 168 came …

Jul 9, 2016 · With his outstanding sense of color, style and design, Tracy 168 achieved legendary status early on in the most significant art movement of our time. The personification of wild …

Now known as one of the kings of graffiti, Tracy 168 says its best year creatively was 1973 when artists began using a myriad of bright colors in their artwork. Competition for street credibility …

Aug 9, 2017 · The guards called the curator of the exhibition, who insisted that he couldn’t change anything since it had already been photographed for the catalogue. So, this is Tracey 168, a …

Nov 16, 2023 · Michael Christopher Tracy aka “Tracy 168” died on Sept. 3. He was known as the inventor of graffiti and was recently immortalized with a mural by graffiti artist MACS in …

Jun 22, 2006 · TRACY 168, who began writing graffiti in the late sixties and invented wild style in the mid-seventies, painted this train in two minutes in 1974. Afterward, he added ink and …

Nov 24, 2005 · But there he was, sitting in a second-floor classroom, and on the walls around him were classic Tracy 168 pieces, including one of his signatures: a smiling, feathered-haired cool …

Oct 18, 2023 · “Michael Tracy, Who Made Subway Trains His Canvas, Dies at 65.” “Using the name Tracy 168, he was a pioneering graffiti artist during the tumultuous 1970s and ’80s in …

Tracy roamed the Bronx fearlessly, at night he broke into the Bronx Zoo to play with the animals, and drive the carts around. As the graffiti movement blossomed around him in the early ’70s, …

Tracy 168 (American, b.1958) was born Michael Tracy in New York. Recognized as a leading figure in the early Graffiti movement, he was one of the first to utilize "Wild Style" lettering. A …