Mr. Brainwash, the pseudonym of French filmmaker and street pop artist Thierry Guetta, rose to international fame after his feature in the 2010 Bansksy-directed film Exit Through the Gift Shop, a documentary profiling popular contemporary graffiti artists. Conspiracies that he himself was Banksy, or that he was a fictional character invented by Bansky as performance art, have since surrounded his persona. Nonetheless, the 1966-born artist has continued his career with great success, and he is known for his prints and street art that amalgamate historic pop visuals and modern cultural iconography.