FUTURA 2000 (born Leonard Hilton McGurr) is an artist whose practice emerged from New York City’s graffiti movement of the 1970s. Among the first writers to introduce abstraction into graffiti, he was also an early pioneer in bringing the form into contemporary art spaces, exhibiting in major galleries in the early 1980s. His work was shown at Patti Astor’s Fun Gallery  and Tony Shafrazi Gallery, and he was featured in New York/New Wave, the landmark 1981 exhibition at MoMA PS1.

Widely regarded as one of the most influential collaborators of his generation, FUTURA 2000 has built an expansive interdisciplinary practice across music, fashion, and contemporary art. In the 1980s, he collaborated with the punk band The Clash, designing album packaging and painting large-scale canvases live onstage during their performances. In the 1990s and 2000s, he became a foundational artistic force within the global streetwear movement and was among the first three non-athletes to be a collaborator with Nike. He lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.