Magda Sayeg

Magda Sayeg is the founder of the original knit graffiti crew Knitta Please.  Knitta Please first began tagging in 2005, covering parking meters, buses, bike racks, lampposts, car antennas, statues, and exposed plumbing – all of the fixtures in an urban world that generally go unnoticed. She termed this innocuous act of subversion yarnbombing.  

Sayeg travels the world installing her art at the invitation of cities, galleries, festivals, businesses and individuals. In 2006, Sayeg and her crew tagged the columns of the monorail system in Seattle, Washington, for Bumbershoot, the city’s annual music and arts festival. In 2007, The Standard in Los Angeles invited Knitta Please to exhibit a knit sculpture in the hotel’s lobby. This past fall, in celebration of New York’s Fashion Week, Sayeg tagged The Standard Hotel in NYC’s Meatpacking District. Additional commissions include tagging a Parisian hotel, a bus in Mexico, parking bollards in Milan, the National Gallery in Canberra, Australia, and parking meters in Brooklyn Heights, New York. Knitta Please is based in Austin, Texas.