The Multi-Talented
Alan Ket
ALAN KET is an active graffiti artist, curator, photographer and author. He is also a media and marketing professional with over 20 years of experience creating culturally meaningful content and brands.
As a creative director he has worked with brands including Slamxhype, Powercoco, Pepsico, Ford, Progressive, Nintendo and the USMC.
His photographs have appeared in Rolling Stone, the New York Times Magazine, the London Sunday Telegraph, The Source, and Vibe.
Early in his career Ket launched Stress, a hip-hop magazine credited for introducing such artists as Jay-Z, Foxy Brown, Eminem, and Raekwon, among others. Stress begat an internationally published Spanish language version of the magazine called Hip Hop Nation. In 2001, with Marc Ecko, he created the very successful men’s fashion magazine Complex. In 2009 he helped re-launch Vibe magazine as a consultant, photography director and producer. In this role he has worked with all the top music artists of today including 50 Cent, Eminem, Justin Beiber, and Erykah Badu.
Most recently he was the curator for graffiti and street art related exhibitions at Fondation Cartier in Paris, PowerHouse Arena in Brooklyn, 55DSL in New York City, The Hip Hop Theatre Festival at New York University, and the MOCA in Los Angeles. He has painted around the world in places such as Melbourne, Port Au Prince, Copenhagen, and Lima, Peru.
He is the author of the best selling titles: Graffiti Planet, Street Art, Graffiti Tattoo, and many other art related titles. He has lectured in universities worldwide, including New York University, Brown University, Syracuse University, UCLA, University of Wisconsin, and Wesleyan University.
In December, 2019, Ket co-founded the Miami Museum of Graffiti, located in the Wynwood Art District.
The videos below were recorded via Zoom and are organized by topic and run between 30 seconds and 8 minutes. Click on any video. You must be connected to the Internet to view the videos.
INSIGHT & INSPIRATION: 0:55 sec.
INSIGHT & INSPIRATION: 3:24 min.
BREAKS THE RULES: 4:18 min.
CREATES A UNIQUE PERSONAL BRAND: 2:18 min.
UNDERSTANDS THE BUSINESS OF ART: 5:57 min.
SELF-CONFIDENCE: 4:18 min.
EXPOSURE TO BROAD INFLUENCES: 3:32 min.
CREATES A UNIQUE PERSONAL BRAND: 1:58 min.
OVERCOMES CHALLENGES TO SUCCEED: 1:21 min.
CRITICAL THINKING: 4:08 min.
VALUES FIRST-RATE EDUCATION: 3:50 min.
CRITICAL THINKING: 7:45 min.
EXPOSURE TO BROAD INFLUENCES: 2:08 min.
UNDERSTANDS THE BUSINESS OF ART: 3:03 min.
CREATES A UNIQUE PERSONAL BRAND: 1:33 min.
RESILIENCE: 0:42 sec.
RESILIENCE: 2:13 min.
SEIZES OPPORTUNITIES: 1:24 min.
BREAKS THE RULES: 1:33 min.
BREAKS THE RULES: 3:10 min.
OVERCOMES CHALLENGES TO SUCCEED: 1:30 min.
