He is a man from streets - name revealed

HuffPost UK

If this is now necessary to know.

The graffiti artist known as Banksy has finally been unmasked — after changing his name to something so generic, he could hide in plain sight.

According to New York Post street artist, whose polarizing works have sold for millions of dollars, was identified as Robin Gunningham, 51, from the English city of Bristol, in a detailed investigation by Reuters on Friday.

The report found that Gunningham changed his name to new, David Jones in 2008 to avoid identification. This the one of the most common British male names,

The report’s authors say they have also disproven the theory that Banksy was really musician Robert Del Naja, frontman of famed Bristol group Massive Attack.

Confusingly, their investigation found that Del Naja was also in Ukraine in 2022, but Reuters reported that he was there with Gunningham.