I became a top search result for “the most famous artist” by creating headline-worthy projects.

2024

Mysterious Monolith Appears in the UK, Nightline, March 2024

10-Foot-Tall Monolith Appears In Wales—What We Know About The Mysterious Object, Forbes, March 2024

Welsh Hiker Says Mysterious Monolith on Hillside 'almost looks like a UFO', The Tennessean, March 2024

10-Foot Mysterious Metal Monolith Appears on Remote Hill, Baffling Locals, New York Post, March 2024

Art City Ambitions, Quay County Sun, January 2024

2023

No Hailey Bieber Smoothie at Erewhon Tucumcari, Conscious City Guide, December 2023

In a burn scar on Basalt Mountain, artists mobilize to help restore the landscape, Aspen Public Radio, November 2023

Culture Crush: Art Happenings In London And Beyond This Month, Forbes, October 2023

2022

Meet The NFTY Scene & Creative Industry Summit Web3 Track Speakers, CairoScene, Sept 22

TreeTrunk Releases Powerful Decentralized Platform to Change the NFT Economy for Artists, Collectors and Influencers, BusinessWire, June 2022

11 chill weed dispensaries in L.A. built on social justice and community vibes, LA Times, April 2022

2021

Artists helping with La Plaza project, The Quay County Sun, November 2021

New Murals in Tucumcari, The Quay County Sun, September 2021

Okcoin, Polygon, and The Most Famous Artist Launch First-ever NFT Drop Alongside Token Listing, Korea IT Times, September 2021

Artist behind Utah monolith stunt auctions off video of his own feces as non-fungible token to raise money for autism research, Daily Mail, June 2021

Elon Musk Smoking Cannabis on Joe Rogan Is Now 69 NFTs, Decrypt, April 2021

What is an NFT? Artists weigh in on latest money-making craze, Washington Examiner, April 2021

Return of the monoliths? Alien structure appears on Spanish beach, Metro UK, April 2021

'Complete bullshit': conceptual artist Matty Mo calls out Nifty Gateway after NFT platform pulls plug on sale of his works, ArtNewspaper, March 2021

‘The Most Famous Artist’ Debuts 638 NFTs on OpenSea in the Collective’s Foray into the Crypto Art Scene, Coinedict, February 2021

2020

Say You Want to Build a Monolith, New York Times, December 2020

An artist collective says it is selling monoliths for $45,000, causing speculation that it created the bizarre phenomenon, Business Insider, December 2020

Collective of Artists Claim Responsibility Over Recent Mysterious Monoliths, Hypebeast, December 2020

Monolith-mania Continues as Artists Come Forward to Claim Credit for Sculptures, Hyperallergic, December 2020

Stunt artists take responsibility for mystery monoliths, sell them for $45G, Fox News, December 2020

A Prankster Art Collective Is Claiming Authorship of the Utah Monolith. Now It’s Selling Facsimiles for $45,000, Artnet, December 2020

Stunt artists who claim they're behind the alien monoliths sell new ones for $45,000, Mashable, December 2020

2019

Miley Cyrus Pokes Fun at Her Brief Marriage to Liam Hemsworth After Artist’s Instagram Proposal, US Magazine, December 2019

Miley Cyrus pokes fun at her failed marriage to Liam Hemsworth, Page Six, December 2019

Meet Matty Mo, ‘The Most Famous Artist’ you’ve never heard of, Nightline, September 2019

How Snapchat Is Transforming The Physical World Through Augmented Reality, Forbes, May 2019

You Can Eat A Cheese Sandwich In A Box At This Fyre Festival "Experience" Pop-Up, Nylon, Febuary 2019

You can now get the Fyre Festival experience you never had at Beverly Hills pop-up shop, Metro, January 2019

No smoke without Fyre: A GAS mock experience has been mad, Shemazing, January 2019

A Fyre pop-up mocks real festival with an abrupt cancellation, PageSix, January 2019

An artist has created an installation called 'The Fyre Experience' which allows people to take pictures pretending they're at the failed festival, The Insider, January 2019

Inside Snapchat’s content creator incubator Yellow, Digiday, January 2019

2018

SNS上の“ステータス・セルフィー”を無効化。あの有名アーティストの〈ラグジュアリーセルフィー体験(無料)〉の意図, Heaps, December 2018

Confuse your friends with a selfie at the most pretentious Art Basel-related exhibit ever, Miami.com, November 2018

Fake it till you make it! Instagram users flock to pose in LA art installation that looks just like the interior of a lavish private jet, Daily Mail, November 2018

Do it for the ‘gram: Don’t miss these photo-worthy Art Basel installations, Miami.com, November 2018

The Most Famous Artist Is Giving Everyone ‘The Private Jet Experience’ For Free, Trending All Day, November 2018

People in LA are taking Instagram photos inside a 'private jet' which is actually just a fake interior inside a store, The Insider, November 2018

The Private Jet Experience By The Most Famous Artist And SelfieCircus, Forbes, November 2018

Fake It Till You Make It, Fused Magazine, November 2018

The new ‘Private Jet Experience’ in LA is a fake replica of a Gulfstream G3 designed just for taking selfies, The World News, November 2018

The new ‘Private Jet Experience’ in LA is a fake replica of a Gulfstream G3 designed just for taking selfies, The Sun, November 2018

An artwork created by artificial intelligence sold for 45 times more than estimated, Mashable, October 2018

What 10 influencers and artists have to say about Instagram’s co-founders quitting, Vox, September 2018

Meet SelfieCircus and 8 more in Snapchat’s new startup accelerator, TechCruch, September 2018

So You Want to Sell Your Art? Here Are 6 Online Platforms Looking to Help Emerging Artists Make a Buck, Artnet, July 2018

Ariana Grande Unveils Rainbow Mural in Los Angeles, Billboard, May 2018

Why Everyone & Everything is Inauthentic, Are You Being Real, March 2018

7 Cool Walls In Los Angeles To Take Pics In Front Of, If Your Insta Needs Inspo, EliteDaily, February 2018

2017

State of the Culture, II: From Post-Internet Art to Influencer Art to… Mystery Art, artnet, December 2017

Packs of Fans Are Gathering At This Selena Gomez AMAs Mural, November 2017

The Art of Selling Out: The Most Famous Artist, Vango, November 2017

The Most Famous Artist at Sotheby's Institute of Art, Sotheby’s Institute of Art, October 2017

The World’s First Album Composed and Produced by an AI Has Been Unveiled, Futurism, August 2017

Amazon’s big blue bug of justice hits San Diego with The Tick Takeover!, SuperHeroHype, July 2017

How to Become The Most Famous Artist, Tech Open Air, July 2017

Through Data Analysis and Intuition, The Most Famous Artist Proved Selling Art is Similar to Running a Startup, Heaps Magazine Japan, June 2017

“The Most Famous Artist” Designed Nomadica’s Rose Wine Cans, Food Republic, June 2017

Best of LA: 92 of Our Favorite Things to Eat, Do, and Buy Right Now, Los Angeles Magazine, July 2017

Announcing Entrepreneur In Residence, Matty Mo: The Most Famous Artist #TMFA, NomadX, June 2017

Artist ironically uses AI to make portraits of people with jobs likely displaced by AI, Mashable, June 2017

The Most Famous Artist: Art Meets AI, Forbes, June 2017

Meet The Artist Behind ‘The Pink House’, LA’s Instagram Hot Spot, Resource Magazine, June 2017

Are They a Public Work of Art? An Eyesore? A Statement About Urban Development? Or a Marketing Stunt?, New York Times, June 2016

People Are Going Wild for These Hot Pink Houses on Instagram, TIME, June 2016

Millennial Pink Houses Are Taking Over One Neighborhood in Los Angeles and It’s All for Instagram, Teen Vogue, June 2017

This L.A. Neighbourhood Has Committed To Pink Houses Because #Instagram, Elle Australia, June 2017

Before Demolition, 3 Homes Painted Shocking Pink in Mid-City Art Project, KTLA, June 2017

Three Mid-City Houses Painted Hot Pink By Local Architecture Firm, Curbed, June 2017

Do Not Instagram These Pink Houses, They Are A PR Stunt To Sell Rosé, LAist, June 2017

Why This Dude Is Publishing Your Nude Snapchats, Cosmopolitan, March 2017

2016

This Kanye West-Inspired Art Gallery Is An Epic Shrine To Yeezy, EliteDaily, November 2016

What Four Artists Learned From Painting Kanye West’s Face, Complex, October 2016

‘Kanye Loves Kanye’: A Strange L.A. Art Exhibition Worshipping Kanye West, DailyBeast, October 2016

The Most Famous Artist is Dominating the Interwebs, ArtZealous, September 2016

SEE IT: French bulldog Chloe the Mini Frenchie creates self-portrait with help from the Most Famous Artist, Daily News, August 2016

This Dog Painted Herself With Her Own Four Paws, BuzzFeed, August 2016

This Beautiful Piece Of Art Was Actually Painted By A Dog, And Here’s How She Did It, LittleThings, August 2016

The ‘Most Famous Artist’ Is F*cking With The Art World, And It’s Awesome, Uproxx, July 2016

These Identical Twins Are Going to Make $8,000 Selling Art Made With Their Butts, NextShark, July 2016

Guy Tricks Gallery Into Believing Cash Bricks Are Works Of Art, EliteDaily, May 2016

Social Media Stardom and "Gandhi" and Charity Collide on a Wall in Venice, LA Weekly, April 2016

The Kaplan Twins: These Sisters ‘Sleep’ With Superhero Toys and Sell Them for $333 on Instagram, NextShark, April 2016

Meet the Man Selling Bundles of Cash on Instagram and Calling It Art, Digital Trends, April 2016

This Artist Sells Money as Art - 100,000 for 5,000 Dollars?, WideWalls, April 2016

This Man Made $50,000 Over the Weekend Selling Stacks of Cash on Instagram, NextShark, April 2016

This Guy Calls Himself The Most Famous Artist And We Spent Two Days With Him, Buzzfeed, March 2016

Best Instagrammable Street Art, Los Angeles Magazine,  March 2016

Who is The Most Famous Artist? Contributing to a Discussion on Meaning in Art, WideWalls, March 2016

Matty Mo, AKA The Most Famous Artist, Paints Uber-Popular Selfie Backdrops All Over L.A., Los Angeles Magazine,  February 2016

2015

The Most Head-Turning Outfits At Art Basel 2015, HuffPost, December 2015

Get to know the Gucci-approved Instagram artist, Dazed, October 2015

Gucci Launches #GucciGram, a New Creative Project on Social Media, Out, October 2015

​Check Out Gucci’sInsta-art Project #guccigram, I-D, October 2015

Exclusive: Gucci Collaborates With Artists on an Instagram Initiative, Vogue, October 2015

Venice Ales House and Bumble App Team Up!, Groomed LA, June 2015

2014

Downtown Los Angeles Bohemian Style with The Most Famous Artist, Hayo, November 2014

2013

Science Inc Names 500 Startups Matt Monahan as VP Social Media Marketing, TechZulu, December 2013

The Tolstoy of Tech Bros, The Federalist, November 2013

Data Brokers Don't Know You From A Naked Man Stumbling On The Beach, Forbes, August 2013

Drunk, Naked AlphaBoost Founder Matt Monahan Is Currently Trying to Sell His Company, Observer, February 2013

Tech Bros' Google-Sponsored Trip to India Turns Into Naked Beach Romp, Gawker, February 2013 

2011

These Stanford Students Made Millions Taking A Class About Facebook, Business Insider, May 2011

The Class That Built Apps, and Fortunes, NY Times, May 2011

2007

Stanford Facebook Class, NBC11, December, 2007


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