Linus Coraggio

Linus Coragggio (born 1957) is an American street artist, sculptor, and an early founding member of the Rivington School.^[1] For many years Coraggio ran a renown art-space gallery and personal art studio on Avenue B and 2nd street called the "Gas Station" in an old gas station in the Manhattan neighborhood of Alphabet City on the Lower East Side.^[2][3] The "Gas Station" closed in 1995.^[4]

Coraaggio is a 1984 graduate of SUNY Purchase and subsequently of Whitney Studio Program.^[5][6]

In 2019 Coraggio's work was the subject of a solo exhibition, titled "Ramifications" at the Howl Arts Center in New York City. Corragio's work was also included in the exhibition "1970S Graffiti Today curated by Arnold Lehman the former durector of the Brooklyn Museum at Phillips Auction House in New York City alongside that of Al Diaz, Futura 2000, Fred Brathwaite, Lee Quinones, and Lady Pink and then again at Phillips in 2023 in the exhibition "Never Above 14th Street" curated by Kurt Boone and alongside such artists as Mike Bidlo, Keith Haring, David Wojnarowicz, Martin Wong, and David McDermott and Peter McGough. ^{[7][8][9][10]}