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Lady Pink (born Sandra Fabara, Ambato, Ecuador, 1964) is a graffiti artist. She was raised in Queens, New York, and started her career in 1979 when she started writing graffiti while a student at the High School of Art and Design, and made a name for herself as one of the only females capable of competing with men in the graffiti subculture. She was featured in the film Wild Style (1982) and Martha Cooper's book Hip Hop Files. She also worked with Jenny Holzer. As one of the first females to write graffiti, she is credited with opening the doors for other female writers.
Her works are in collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Brooklyn Museum, and Groninger Museum. She now runs her own mural paintings company with her husband Smith. In July 2006, an art piece titled "The Black Dude" (1983), by Lady Pink, was featured at the Brooklyn Museum's exhibit on graffiti.
The mural, Brick Man & Brick Woman by Lady Pink, was part of the Urban Nature exhibition at Denver Botanic Gardens in 2008. The artwork was donated to the Denver Office of Cultural Affairs when the exhibition closed. With the assistance of the Morrison Road Business Association and Paul Lopez, City Councilmember for District 3, the artwork was installed at its present location.
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