Josh “Stash” Franklin was born on Long Island in 1967 and came of age in the East Village in the early 1980s, when his first canvas was shown alongside Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat, in FUN Gallery’s Graffiti, Thanks a Lot!. Stash’s work has since been shown in New York, Los Angeles, London, Paris, Rome, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Dubai, Singapore, and Moscow, and joined the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Brooklyn Museum.
