Banksy is the pseudonymous British artist whose stenciled images carried street art into the center of contemporary critical debate. Emerging from the Bristol graffiti scene in the 1990s, he developed a visual language of dark humor and political dissent, turning satire on war, surveillance, consumerism, and the art market itself. Works such as Girl with Balloon and the self-shredding Love Is in the Bin have entered wide public consciousness and major private collections, while retrospectives and institutional surveys have examined his place in the lineage of protest art. Di-faced Tenner, the defaced banknote shown here, is among the editions that distilled his critique of value and authenticity into a single circulating object, a counterfeit that comments on the systems it imitates.