KAWS 'Sesame Street' Vinyl Figures Release Details

Artist: KAWS
Title: Sesame Street (Big Bird Not Included)
Medium: Vinyl Figures
Size: O+E:10 Inches B+E:12.5 Inches
Edition: UNSURE
Price: $1,300/SET

  

*available at 11pm EST on October 15th, 2025

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KAWS is the professional alias of American artist Brian Donnelly, born in Jersey City, New Jersey, in 1974. He studied illustration at the School of Visual Arts in New York and began his creative life as a graffiti writer, tagging the four meaningless letters K-A-W-S on trains and walls because he liked their shape and rhythm

. In the mid 1990s he moved from illegal work to authorised interventions, altering bus-stop and phone-booth advertisements by painting his own characters over the existing models so that fashion campaigns suddenly featured bulbous skull-headed figures with crossed-out eyes. These public takeovers earned him street credibility and led to freelance animation work for Disney on series such as 101 Dalmatians and Daria, experiences that sharpened his sense of line and timing.

During a 1997 trip to Tokyo, Donnelly discovered the Japanese vinyl toy scene and began producing limited edition figures of his character Companion, a Mickey Mouse shaped silhouette whose gloved hands cover a face marked by X eyes. The sculptures sold out instantly and created a global network of collectors who now queue for each new colour way, pushing secondary market prices into the millions. Painting, printmaking and large scale sculpture followed the same graphic clarity: canvases present cartoon icons dissolved into dripping colour fields, while bronzes enlarge the toys to monumental scale, their heads bowed as if weighed down by pop culture itself.

Collaborations with Nike, Uniqlo, Sesame Street, and Dior have carried the KAWS emblem onto sneakers, T shirts and handbags, continuing the artist’s stated aim to communicate with the widest possible audience without hierarchy between museum wall and cereal box. By merging street energy with luxury production, Brian Donnelly has turned a teenage tag into an internationally recognised symbol of contemporary desire.

Tom Whalen 'Sesame Street' Prints Available

Artist: Tom Whalen
Title: Sesame Street
Medium: Multi Colour Screen Print
Size: 18 x 24 Inches
Edition: 280
Price: $55

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*there's also a cool variant on Big Bird yellow paper