Rocky Dobey began anonymously installing street art in Toronto over five decades ago with xeroxed posters, followed by agitprop billboards, concrete sculptures, lacquered books and political plaques. Dobey now has a more formal practice of intaglio prints, copper sculptures, and large etched works in copper, enhanced with porcelain paint, tar and other materials. The new work addresses many of the same concerns as the early street art, but on a much larger scale, using original and traditional printmaking and sculptural techniques. Recent shows include power at OCADU’s Onsite Gallery, and Civilization and its Discontents, a new collection at Gagné Contemporary.
Rocky Dobey – On his life & experiences as an activist & street artist (30min Camas 2025)
Rocky Dobey’s plaques, sculptures and memorials are everywhere in Toronto. (CBC 2023)
Rocky Dobey – How street artist Rocky Dobey sculpts Toronto’s memory (8min CBC 2023)
Rocky Dobey – Street Art: Alternative Toronto Map
Rocky Dobey – Instagram Gallery
Dynamic Collectivity – A Punchclock Story – Signal04 (2014)
Rocky Dobey – Exhibition (2008)
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