1000% Mega Skullpanda x Jean-Michael Basquiat

Xiong Miao, also known as Xiong Meow, is a Chinese artist renowned for creating the SKULLPANDA art toy series. In 2014, she founded the art studio BEIZHAI, and by the end of 2018, she introduced SKULLPANDA, establishing the art toy studio NORTH STUDIO.  Xiong Miao is recognized as a GC concept designer and art toy designer, serving as the Director of NORTH STUDIO. Her SKULLPANDA series is celebrated for its distinctive designs and strong character personalities, making it easily recognizable and beloved within the art toy community. The unique makeup of SKULLPANDA figures has even inspired cosplay trends among fans. Skullpanda is a popular designer art toy series created by Chinese artist Xiong Meow and produced by POP MART, a leading global toy brand. Skullpanda figures are known for their dark, surreal, and gothic-inspired aesthetic, often blending elements of high fashion, streetwear, and fantasy. The character design typically features a pale-skinned, androgynous figure with hollowed-out eyes, a skeletal mouth, and panda-like ears, giving it a distinct eerie-yet-cute appearance. Pop Mart is a Chinese toy company that sells collectible designer toys. The company is known for its "blind box" packaging, which doesn't reveal the toys inside. Pop Mart is a leader in the designer toy market and has been credited with creating the market for designer toys in China. Jean-Michel Basquiat was an American artist of Haitian and Puerto Rican descent. Basquiat first achieved fame as part of SAMO, an informal graffiti duo who wrote enigmatic epigrams in the cultural hotbed of the Lower East Side of Manhattan during the late 1970s, where rap, punk, and street art coalesced into early hip-hop music culture. By the 1980s, his neo-expressionist paintings were being exhibited in galleries and museums internationally. The Whitney Museum of American Art held a retrospective of his art in 1992. Basquiat's art focused on dichotomies such as wealth versus poverty, integration versus segregation, and inner versus outer experience. He appropriated poetry, drawing, and painting, and married text and image, abstraction, figuration, and historical information mixed with contemporary critique.