#SundayNobody is the hashtag for an American meme and performance artist whose 2026 breakout — a formal, black-tie funeral for a decommissioned West Seattle Taco Bell — cemented a body of work that already included a bronze Discobolus-Handsome-Squidward hybrid sunk nine meters into the Mediterranean and a 3,000-pound concrete sarcophagus entombing a bag of Flamin’ Hot Cheetos for future archaeologists. The New York Times called him “the next Banksy” in 2024, and by 2026 the label had stopped feeling ironic.
Quick Facts
- Origin: Seattle-area, United States
- Practice: Meme art, performance, large-scale sculpture, prank/stunt work
- NYT designation: “The next Banksy” (2024)
- 2026 breakout: Taco Bell funeral, West Seattle
- Prior signature works: Discobolus-Squidward bronze (Mediterranean, 2025, ~$25K); Flamin’ Hot Cheetos sarcophagus (~3,000 lbs, 10,000-year time capsule)
- Status: active
What It Is
Sunday Nobody’s practice sits between three older traditions — Banksy-style street stunts, Duchamp-era readymades, and internet meme culture — and applies all three to fast-food and snack-brand ephemera. The projects tend to share a formula: pick a piece of consumer packaging that would ordinarily be thrown away in hours, then treat it with the material and ceremonial gravity of a museum piece or a religious relic, and film the whole thing for social platforms.
The scale is deliberate. The Cheetos sarcophagus weighs 3,000 pounds. The Discobolus-Squidward statue was hand-cast in bronze in China. The Taco Bell funeral in 2026 was a full ceremonial event with dress code, program, and attendee gifts. The joke is real materials meeting deeply unserious subject matter.
Notable Projects
Taco Bell Funeral (2026)
In 2026, Sunday Nobody held a formal funeral for a long-closed West Seattle Taco Bell — about 30 years after it stopped operating. The ceremony required guests to arrive in formal attire and included:
- Bagpipes and processional music
- A 21-bell salute
- A crying contest among attendees
- Attendees bringing gifts and “tokens of condolence”
Coverage in Complex, KIRO 7, and MyNorthwest framed the event as the moment Sunday Nobody’s practice moved from online-viral to city-level participatory event, with local Seattle media covering it as a genuine community happening. The attendee slogan — “we lived, laughed, and loved más,” a play on Taco Bell’s long-standing “Live Más” tagline — became the widely-quoted line.
Flamin’ Hot Cheetos Sarcophagus
A separate, earlier project: a bag of Flamin’ Hot Cheetos encased in resin, suspended by wires inside a 3,000-pound concrete sarcophagus, buried outside Seattle with a plaque instructing future archaeologists to open it in 10,000 years. Rolling Stone and Artnet covered it as a straight-faced time capsule; Frito-Lay’s Cheetos brand publicly acknowledged the work after the fact and, per Foodbeast, rewarded him for it.
Discobolus-Squidward Bronze
In 2025, Sunday Nobody spent roughly $25,000 to have a bronze statue hand-cast in China that fuses the ancient Greek Discobolus of Myron with Handsome Squidward from SpongeBob SquarePants. He then sank it nine meters into the Mediterranean, intending it to be discovered by future archaeologists who will presumably struggle to date the composite.
Cultural Impact
Sunday Nobody’s work has become a reference point for a specific 2020s / mid-2020s mode of internet-native performance art: monumental effort applied to trivial consumer objects, executed as content-first projects rather than gallery-first ones. The 2026 Taco Bell funeral in particular translated the online audience into a physical, city-scale event with press coverage in national outlets and local Seattle TV — a rare crossover for an artist whose main platform is short-form video.
The 2024 NYT “next Banksy” designation, once a headline-writer’s flourish, has aged well: Sunday Nobody now shares Banksy’s core method (pseudonymous identity, medium-crossing stunts, brand-adjacent commentary) while operating in a native-internet register that Banksy’s late-2000s work never had to.
Variations & Related Tags
- #TacoBellFuneral — the 2026 breakout event
- #CheetosSarcophagus — the 10,000-year time capsule
- #MemeArt — the broader category his work sits inside
Sources
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunday_Nobody
- https://www.complex.com/life/a/bernadette-giacomazzo/seattle-artist-taco-bell-funeral
- https://mynorthwest.com/lifestyle/west-seattle-artist-taco-bell/4234684
- https://news.artnet.com/art-world/flaming-hot-cheetos-meme-artist-sunday-nobody-2211046
- https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/artist-made-a-sacred-3000-pound-tomb-flamin-hot-cheetos-1234626107/