Koko Bayer
2025 Street Wise Mural Festival
About the Artist:
Denver-based artist Koko Bayer is known for her impactful public art installations. Since 2015, she has transformed urban landscapes with thousands of temporary outdoor murals through her Temporary Structures Project.
In early 2020, she launched the Heart Project, a series of murals aimed at inspiring positivity during the pandemic. A proud trans woman, Koko responded a few months later to the cancellation of Pride celebrations in 2020 by starting the Rainbow Heart Project to uplift the LGBTQ+ community with messages of hope.
Over the past five years, she has created hundreds of large Pink Lemonade Hope and Rainbow Heart murals in public spaces, schools, hospitals, and shelters across Colorado and major cities, including New York, Chicago, Miami, and London. She has also sent thousands of stickers and small prints worldwide. Five years later, installation requests are still coming in.
Koko is part of the leadership team for Babe Walls, a non-profit mentoring organization that produces mural events for womxn and non-binary artists. The organization has produced festivals in Atlanta, Westminster, Arvada, Adams County, and the Standing Rock Indian Reservation. She is proud of the work being done to create opportunities for womxn and non-binary muralists.
She splits her work between creating permanent and temporary murals in outdoor and public spaces and making dimensional works out of folded printed and plain paper, cardboard, and concrete for exhibitions in her studio practice. Recent solo exhibitions include Pink Lemonade Hope at the Denver Botanic Gardens, Souvenirs and Hope Shop at Dateline Gallery, Imagine Love at the Bustop Gallery, and Folding Time at Alto Gallery.
