Shepard Fairey’s 2026 signed offsets: four editions compared

Four works, two scales

Shepard Fairey’s 2026 signed-offset releases offer a useful comparison of how the same accessible print format carries very different subjects. Justice Woman, Make Art Not War (Blue) and Uplift Justice were announced at $35 each and measure 36 inches high by 24 inches wide. Radical Cat is a smaller 20-by-16-inch print, announced at $30. All four are offsets on thick cream Speckletone paper signed by Fairey; these specifications should not be confused with a numbered screenprint carrying a similar image.

Justice Woman and Radical Cat are explicitly described as unnumbered open editions in their announcements. Open edition describes the absence of a fixed numbered run, not a promise of permanent stock. The format makes the image and signature the principal collecting proposition. A listing that adds a limited-edition number would therefore need to establish that it concerns a different edition, rather than treating a number as an automatic upgrade.

Justice, play and political memory

Justice Woman was available by July 29, 2026. Fairey presents its female subject as a tribute to people who persist in pursuing justice and as an argument for greater representation of women in leadership. That context gives the title a specific emphasis: justice is something people practise, rather than an abstract emblem of state authority. The 36-by-24-inch scale puts it alongside the larger message-led offsets in this comparison.

Radical Cat was available by July 21. Fairey traces the image to a cat-themed exhibition and describes its title as connecting feline humour with his interest in the Black Panthers. The announcement also earmarks a portion of proceeds for the ASPCA, without publishing a percentage. Its smaller sheet materially changes the display proposition: this is the one option here that does not require space for a three-foot-tall print.

A colour variant and a mural translation

Make Art Not War (Blue) was available by July 2. The official announcement identifies blue as a new alternative to the established red-and-black offset. It also reproduces curator Pedro Alonzo’s account of the composition’s anti-war origins and its Art Nouveau references. The variant designation matters more than a year attached to the underlying image: this record concerns the blue offset, not the first appearance of Make Art Not War. Collectors comparing copies should match colour and printing process before comparing prices.

Uplift Justice has a more precise sale milestone: April 30, 2026 at 10 a.m. PDT. Fairey connects it to a Philadelphia mural he describes as painted the previous year. His accompanying statement places the image against the approaching 250th anniversary of American independence, asking which civic values should shape the future. This distinguishes its historical setting from Justice Woman, despite their shared scale, support and issue price.

Reading the dates correctly

The three July announcements say that their prints were already available. Their publication dates establish availability by those dates; they do not establish an exact first-sale day or hour. Uplift Justice, by contrast, was announced for a scheduled online launch. All four dates are historical as of October 7, 2026. Consult the linked official destinations for present availability, and treat the quoted dollar amounts as announced issue prices rather than current secondary-market valuations.

How the images differ

The exact release images make their different registers clear. Justice Woman presents a frontal, uniformed figure with a scales pendant; Uplift Justice turns the face upward beneath another set of scales and a flower. The first image confronts the viewer, while the second directs attention toward an ideal above the figure. Their shared justice symbolism does not make them interchangeable compositions.

Radical Cat substitutes a jacketed cat for a human rebel, using the absurdity of the substitution to keep the political reference playful. Make Art Not War (Blue) instead places a woman inside a floral medallion between two large commands. Its blue field, red ring and brush imagery make the colour-specific edition recognizable while maintaining the slogan’s visual hierarchy. The Justice Woman room-setting photograph shows a frame for display; the announcement does not include that frame in the $35 print price.