Chuck Sperry

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Chuck Sperry Shows at CONTEXT / Art Basel with Harman Projects

Empathy (oversized), 2025
70 cm x 100 cm (27.5″ x 39.4″)
Edition of 200
5 color screen print on fedrigoni paper.
Signed and Numbered

I’m very excited to announce my participation in CONTEXT Art Miami with Harman Projects! CONTEXT will be on view December 2-7, 2025. I’ll be releasing two brand new, large format art prints in limited edition — “Courage” & “Empathy” — printed in red-orange-yellow tones by Sericraft of Torino.

These two oversized prints will see their American release at CONTEXT Art Miami during Art Basel Miami 2025 at Harman Projects’ booth – sign up to Harman Projects mailing list to receive booth number & latest info: https://www.harmanprojects.com/mailing-list/

Courage (oversized), 2025
67,75 cm x 100 cm (26.7″ x 39.4″)
Edition of 200
5 color screen print on fedrigoni paper.
Signed and Numbered

Address:
The CONTEXT Art Miami Pavillion
One Herald Plaza
NE 14th Street & Biscayne Bay
Miami, FL 33132

Dates:
Platinum VIP Preview: Tuesday, December 2nd | 11:00am – 1:00pm
VIP Preview: Tuesday, December 2nd | 1:00pm – 4:00pm

General Admission:
Tuesday, December 2nd | 4:00pm – 9:00pm
Wednesday, December 3rd |  11:00am – 7:00pm
Thursday, December 4th |  11:00am – 7:00pm
Friday, December 5th |  11:00am – 7:00pm
Saturday, December 6th |  11:00am – 7:00pm
Sunday, December 7th |  11:00am – 6:00pm

Participating artists:
Luke Chueh | Mark Drew | Shepard Fairey | Jeff Gillette | Miles Johnston | Josh Keyes | Travis Louie | Marie-Claude Marquis | Greg ‘Craola’ Simkins | Chuck Sperry | Martin Whatson | Ravi Zupa 

DM or email at [email protected] to be added to the advance collector’s preview list.

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“Chuck Sperry: Exposed!” Art Show in Torino Italy October 31

“Chuck Sperry: Exposed!”
Opens Friday, October 31, 2025 at Ridicola an urban art gallery located in the heart of Torino, Italy. Opening party featuring: DJ Giampo! Show on view through November 2025.

I’ll be releasing two brand new, large format art prints in limited edition — “Courage” & “Empathy” — printed in red-orange-yellow tones by Sericraft of Torino. These two prints will see their American release at Context, Miami Art Week during Art Basel Miami 2025 at Harman Projects’ booth.

Also: I’ve created a special edition “Ridicola” magazine of 60 pages, filled with two extensive photo stories by Shaun Roberts documenting the artist at work inside Hangar 18, my California studio. The cover parodies Italian news magazines of the 1960s.

Ridicola is located at the heart of Torino, a former newsstand transformed into a vibrant exhibition space: a new hub for meeting, sharing, and art exhibitions. The small kiosk, closed for years, is reborn in a new form: an urban art gallery accessible 24/7, with a never-closing window and a curated selection of independent magazines and fanzines.

Courage (oversized), 2025
67,75 cm x 100 cm (26.7″ x 39.4″)
Edition of 200
5 color screen print on fedrigoni paper.
Signed and Numbered
Empathy (oversized), 2025
70 cm x 100 cm (27.5″ x 39.4″)
Edition of 200
5 color screen print on fedrigoni paper.
Signed and Numbered

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Legends Gather at TRPS Festival of Posters 2025

Join us October 18, 2025 for The Rock Poster Society, Festival of Posters in San Francisco’s beautiful Golden Gate Park.

I will not be able to attend TRPS Festival of Rock Posters on Saturday, October 18, 2025, but my well-seasoned “dream team” of Jon, Ron and Rob will represent and smoothly operate my booth – with all my newest rock posters, art prints, test prints, rarities and surprises! So you will be able to acquire my work for sure!

I’ll have a very limited offering of my most very recent posters: Widespread Panic “Juno” •  Dave Matthews, “Courage” • Alabama Shakes at the Hollywood Bowl • art print “Danaide” •  and other rarities and classics. Also, I’ll have a nice selection of blotter art, and a new surprise release!

Of course, I’ll have available copies of my 750+ page rock poster compendium: “Color x Color, The Sperry Poster Archive 1980-2020”.

San Francisco’s annual Fall Clas­sic, the The Rock Poster Society’s Fes­ti­val of Rock Posters is set to go for Sat­ur­day, Octo­ber 18th, 2025 at the San Fran­cisco County Fair Build­ing (aka Hall of Flow­ers) in beau­ti­ful Golden Gate Park.

Fea­tur­ing legendary rock poster artists and deal­ers from around the coun­try, this is the biggest rock poster event of its kind any­where. Those of you who have attended this show in the past know that this is the one not to miss. We bring in the best of the best, and you’ll find every­thing from vin­tage psy­che­delic trea­sures to the best of the mod­ern silkscreen move­ment. This year’s ver­sion promises to offer another stel­lar lineup.

The loca­tion is at the cor­ner of Ninth and Lin­coln on the South edge of the Park, not far from the Haight, the DeY­oung Museum, and the Acad­emy of Sci­ences. There are plenty of great restau­rants close by, too. Make it a week­end and bring the fam­ily to enjoy the great weather, an awe­some poster event, and every­thing else San Fran­cisco has to offer.

Festival of Rock Posters: 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 18 at the Hall of Flowers, Ninth Avenue and Lincoln Way, Golden Gate Park.

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Cooper Hewitt Opens “Art of Noise” December 12 • Sperry On View

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum • Opens Art of Noise December 12

Art of Noise • Cooper Hewitt • December 12 – July 19, 2026
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
2 East 91st Street • New York, NY 10128

Art of Noise at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum is a multi-sensory love song to the designers who devote their artistic vision to music. 

Music is a part of our daily lives. By contemplating how music is amplified by art — the design of album covers and concert posters — Cooper Hewitt’s upcoming exhibition Art of Noise shows us how profoundly this art has shaped our experience of the rhythms and melodies we listened to for over 100 years.

A floor-to-ceiling “temple” of music design — including many hundreds of San Francisco’s psychedelic rock posters and  — will feature rock poster artists and legendary bands of every description. Mid-century modern album covers, as well as hip-hop, punk, and rave flyers complete this expansive display of incredible color and creativity. For Cooper Hewitt’s presentation, the exhibition also includes printed and graphic materials from New York’s folk, rock, disco, salsa, punk, new wave and hip-hop scenes that have become embedded in the collective memory of countless listeners.

Art of Noise is not to be missed by any fan of art and music! This massive exhibition celebrates the icons of concert posters including Victor Moscoso, Wes Wilson, Chuck Sperry, David Singer, Lee Conklin, Bonnie MacLean, Milton Glaser and many others.

Art of Noise is organized by SFMOMA and curated by Joseph Becker, associate curator of architecture and design, with Divya Saraf, former curatorial assistant in architecture and design. The New York presentation of “Art of Noise” is curated by Becker with assistance from Cynthia Trope, associate curator of product design and decorative arts, Cooper Hewitt.

The exhibition opens Friday, December 12 at the museum. You can learn more about this amazing exhibition by following the link below.

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Widespread Panic Richmond “Juno” Poster Wins Award

My Widespread Panic “Juno” Poster has been voted Poster of the Week by Expressobeans members. Thanks to all my supporters, I super appreciate it! Many thanks to Expressobeans.com.

Commissioned by Widespread Panic for two legendary nights at the Allianz Amphitheater at Riverfront, Richmond, Virginia, my poster was revealed on the first night as a secret surprise, and sold out by the time the shows ended.

“Juno, Queen of the Gods, graces my Widespread Panic poster for Richmond, Virginia. Mother Goddess, central to the earliest rites that dressed our beliefs in human form. Dancing and losing oneself in music connects us to one of the earliest forms of ritual practice.” — Chuck Sperry

We are the good people
The ones they told you about
One kiss of mother nature
Her spirit waits in light

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