DAZE (Chris Ellis)

Chris Ellis (DAZE) is an American artist born in 1961 who lives and works in New York.

Chris Ellis began his prolific career by painting on the New York subway in the 1970s while studying at the High School of Art & Design. He is one of the only artists who successfully completed the transition from metro to studio. He shows his work alongside great artists such as Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring during an exhibition at the Mudd club in 1981.

His work has since been exhibited in countless personal exhibitions in cities such as Monte Carlo, Hong Kong, Paris, New York, Beijing, Chicago and Singapore. His works are part of public collections around the world such as the MoMA in New York, the Brooklyn Museum and the Groninger Museum in the Netherlands, as well as private collections such as Madonna and Eric Clapton, among others...