Chor Boogie

Chor Boogie, a.k.a. Joaquin Lamar Hailey, has been a critically acclaimed spray paint artist for the past thirty-one years. He currently resides in Costa Rica, as of 2020, and has lived in the San Francisco Bay Area since 2007, where he has been an active member of the street art community and has painted several notable commissioned public murals, including The Eyes of San Francisco, Purgatory, and Modern Hieroglyphics Opium Horizons.

Through his dynamic range of artistic styles, Chor addresses issues of race, class, gender, neoimperialism, corporate corruption, substance abuse, health care, drug policy reform, and the rights of Indigenous peoples.
Société Perrier named him number three among the Top Ten US Street Artists. His visionary murals and art exhibi- tions have appeared all over the globe, including venues such as the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, the Smithsonian, Museum of Public Arts in Baton Rouge, Museum of Art Puerto Rico, Rand Corporation in Los Angeles, Torrance Art Museum in Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art in San Diego, Museum of Man in San Diego, San Diego Museum of Art, Children’s Museum in San Diego, Syracuse University Museum, Straat Museum Amsterdam, Punto Urban Art Museum (Salem, Massachusetts), Samstag Museum Australia, Berlin Wall Projects Germany, Stanford University Design, and NEA Grant Sonoma County Museum.

Clients include Google, Playboy, the Ritz Carlton, MTV Arabia, Anthony Robbins, Heineken, the Blackstone Group, Dr. Bronners, Rock the Bells, the TJ Martell Foundation, Cutting Edge Solutions, Puesto, Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf, etc. His portraits have been commissioned by celebrities such as Hugh Hefner, Jay-Z, the artist formerly known as Prince, NAS, Wu-Tang Clan, Rage Against the Machine, and N.W.A.