Lady Pink aka Sandra Fabara was born in Ecuador and grew up in New York City, where she became familiar with graffiti in 1979. Lady Pink was the most prominent female graffiti writer in the period of the movement’s upsurge, and became an icon of hip-hop culture in particular with her role in the cult movie Wild Style (1982).

“It’s not just a boys club. We have a sisterhood thing going.”

She painted on subway trains until 1985 and has since been consistently prolific as an artist, creating large-size murals and exhibiting canvas works in museums and galleries around the world. Her roots in subway graffiti are reflected in the subject matter of her studio work. Lady Pink sees graffiti as a means of rebellion and of “becoming visible,” especially for women artists.

For this exhibition, Lady Pink was commissioned to create the mural on the facade of URBAN NATION Museum. In this large-scale work, she fuses elements of New York and Berlin cityscapes, unfolding the idea of a universal city. To underscore the connection to the exhibition LOVE LETTERS TO THE CITY, she has used colors from the palette of the exhibition’s chapters.