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Eddie Colla attended the School of Visual Arts in New York and graduated from the California College of Arts with a BFA in photography and interdisciplinary fine arts. He began your artistic career as a photographer, working first for the New York Times and later, several magazines, record labels and ad agencies. However, over time, he has morphed into an opponent of what he terms, \u201cthe all-pervasive nature of commercialism\u201d ie, the advertisements that overwhelm many of our public spaces.

Eddie's street art first garnered national recognition when he began incorporating images of Barack Obama in 2008. His designs have been transformed into stickers, and album and magazine covers and have been featured alongside Hush, Blek Le Rat, Banksy, and Shepard Fairey as well as at art festivals, shows, and public spaces in Miami, Paris, Los Angeles, Thailand and Mexico. In August of 2011, he completed an 80 ft mural in Little Saigon San Francisco chronicling the Vietnamese diaspora. In 2012, he became the curator at LOAKal gallery in Oakland California, and then the Ian Ross Gallery in San Francisco where he guest-curated "Made in China" a group exhibition where contemporary artists had their work hung side by side with counterfeits produced in an oil painting factory in China.

Eddie values death awareness, holding the opposites of personal expression and anonymity, not asking for permission, imperfection, the unordinary, in producing shit, if one has to, to get to something real\u2026and of his work states,  \u201cSome people view what I do as vandalism. I assume that their objection is that I alter the landscape without permission. Advertising perpetually alters our environment without the permission of its inhabitants. The only difference is that advertisers pay for the privilege to do so and I don\u2019t. So if you\u2019re going to call me anything\u2026call me a thief.\u201d