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KAWS (real name Brian Donnelly) was born in Jersey City, New Jersey. He studied illustration at the School of Visual Arts in New York before working as a freelance animator at Disney. He also worked on the children’s animations ‘101 Dalmations’, ‘Daria’ and ‘Doug’.