David Choe is one of the most popular and richest Painter who was born on April 21, 1976 in Los Angeles, California, United States. American artist, muralist, and graffiti artist, whose paintings are distinguished through the “dirty style.” His work is a study of themes such as the desire for degradation, degrading and the idea of exaltation.
He painted a famous portrait of the former president He once painted a famous portrait of former President Barack Obama..
In 1996, Choe self published a graphic novel titled Slow Jams, he claims to have made only 200 copies and gave them away at Comic-Con in 1998, hoping to interest a publisher. In 1999, he submitted Slow Jams for the Xeric Grant and was awarded $5,000 to self-publish a second, expanded edition of 1,000 which came out in 1999 with a cover price of $4.
In 2005, internet entrepreneur Sean Parker, a longtime fan, asked him to paint graphic sexual murals in the interior of Facebook’s first Silicon Valley office, and in 2007, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg commissioned him to paint somewhat tamer murals for their next office. Although he thought the Facebook business model was “ridiculous and pointless,” Choe, a habitual gambler, chose to receive company stock in lieu of cash payment for the original Facebook murals. His shares were valued at approximately $200 million on the eve of Facebook’s 2012 IPO.
His birthplace was in Los Angeles to parents Jana and Jimmy Choe. His parents are of Korean heritage.
