For more than a decade, the anonymous Los Angeles art collective known as Citizen X transformed public space into a site of confrontation, reflection, and dialogue. Rejecting celebrity, authorship, and the commercial machinery of the contemporary art world, Citizen X has used street interventions, public performances, posters, mail art, billboards, videos, installations, and text-based works to challenge the assumptions that shape everyday life. Their messages are deceptively simple and short statements that interrupt routine, expose contradiction, and provoke uncomfortable questions about identity, power, consumerism, morality, loneliness, privilege, and the human condition. Citizen X: Public Record is the first comprehensive publication documenting the collective's provocative body of work. Combining essays, archival photographs, installation views, performance documentation, correspondence, and previously unpublished material, the book traces the evolution of one of the most compelling anonymous art collectives working today. Influenced by the public interventions of Jenny Holzer and Barbara Kruger, the activism of the Guerrilla Girls, and the legacy of performance and social practice, Citizen X occupies the space between art, philosophy, political action, and public conscience. Citizen X: Public Record asks what role artists should play in an age of distraction, inequality, and manufactured consent. Can anonymous art still provoke genuine reflection? Can a single sentence change the way someone sees themselves or the world around them? This landmark volume serves as both an archive of an important contemporary art movement and a call to reconsider the relationship between art, public space, and civic responsibility.