Lee Quinones is an American-Puerto Rican artist known for the graffiti he made on New York subway cars during the 1970s and 1980s. Quinones addressed political and cultural issues through his graffiti, with quotes such as “Earth is Hell, Heaven is Life” and “Stop the Bomb.” Born George Lee Quinones in 1960 in Ponce, Puerto Rico, he was raised in the Lower East Side neighborhood of New York. The artist began tagging subway cars in 1974, and by 1976 he was already well known in a community which included Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring. Many of these paintings are only documented by Instamatic color photos, though during the time some of them survived for several months without being removed. By the mid-1980s, he had begun working on canvas and exhibiting his work in galleries. He has gone on to collaborate on graphics for clothing brands such as Supreme and Adidas. The artist currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. Today, Quinones’s works are held in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York and the Groninger Museum in the Netherlands.