List of street artists
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France
- AndréAndré (artist)André aka Monsieur André aka Monsieur A, born Andre Saraiva is a French graffiti artist. He paints a distinctive stick-figure character, usually with a top hat and an 'X' in place of one of the eyes...
- Graffiti - AshAsh (artist)Ash also called Victor Ash is originally a street artist from Paris, France.He started his artistic career as a graffiti writer in the early 1980s and from 1983 to 1986 he also called himself Saho and Ash2....
- Graffiti - Blek le RatBlek le RatBlek le Rat, born Xavier Prou in Boulogne-Billancourt, Paris in 1952, was one of the first graffiti artists in Paris, and has been described as the “Father of Stencil Graffiti” .-Early career and Influence:...
- Stencil graffiti, Poster art - InvaderInvader (artist)Invader is a French urban artist who pastes up characters from and inspired by the Space Invaders game, made up of small coloured square mosaic tiles that form a space invader character murel...
- Mosaic - Jef AérosolJef AérosolJef Aérosol is a French stencil graffiti artist. He has been one of the main urban art proponents in France since 1982. He was born in Nantes. He belongs to the very first street art pioneers of the early 80s like Blek le Rat, Miss.Tic, Jérôme Mesnager, Speedy Graphito.He spray painted his first...
- Stencil graffiti - Miss VanMiss VanMiss Van, Vanessa Alice Bensimon , born in 1973 in Toulouse, France, is considered one of the best known painters of the graffiti scene. She started wall painting in the streets of Toulouse at the age of 18. Her drawings are of sloe-eyed women, covering a varied array of female forms and expressing...
- Graffiti - C215 (street artist)C215 (street artist)C215, real name Christian Guémy, is a French street artist hailing from Paris who has been described as "France's answer to Banksy".C215 primarily uses stencils to produce his art. His first stencil work was put up in 2006, but he has been a graffiti artist for over 20 years. His work consists...
- Graffiti street artist
Spain
- ChanoirCha (artist)Cha aka Chanoir is a graffiti artist based in Barcelona, Spain. He was born in Bogotá and raised in Paris where he began his graffiti. He is best known for his eponymous cat character, Cha...
(Barcelona) - graffiti - El Xupet NegreEl Xupet NegreEl Xupet Negre is a graffiti artist from Barcelona, Spain, who has painted a black pacifier/dummy logo since 1989.-Further reading:**Street Logos, Tristan Manco, Thames & Hudson, 2004, ISBN 0-500-28469-5...
(Barcelona) - graffiti - PezPez (artist)Pez is a graffiti artist from Barcelona, Spain. He was born in 1976. He started painting graffiti in 1999 in Barcelona, and his tag gradually changed from his signature into the fish character he paints today...
(Barcelona) - graffiti
UK
- BanksyBanksyBanksy is a pseudonymous England-based graffiti artist, political activist, film director, and painter.His satirical street art and subversive epigrams combine irreverent dark humour with graffiti done in a distinctive stencilling technique...
(Bristol) - graffiti, stencil graffiti - CartrainCartrainCartrain , often stylised cartяain, is a British artist associated with the graffiti urban art movement. YBA artist Damien Hirst has threatened to take legal steps against Cartain over his art and activities.-Early life:...
(London-LeytonstoneLeytonstoneLeytonstone is an area of east London and part of the London Borough of Waltham Forest. It is a high density suburban area, located seven miles north east of Charing Cross in the ceremonial county of Greater London and the historic county of Essex...
) Stencil, Collage - CutupCutupCutup is a group of London based artists, whose work mainly revolves around the manipulation of billboard advertisements. Their first works consisted of removing a billboard, painstakingly cutting it up into roughly 4000 small rectangles, each one in essence a pixel, and then reassembling the...
(London) - billboards - InkieInkieInkie is a London based painter and street artist, originally from Clifton, Bristol. He is cited as being part of Bristol's graffiti heritage, along with Banksy, 3D and Nick Walker.-Career:...
(Bristol, London) - graffiti, street art, graphic design - KakosKakosKakos is a village in the municipality of Çepan in Skrapar District, Berat County, Albania....
(Brighton) - Stencil, 3D - King RobboKing RobboKing Robbo is an English underground graffiti artist who became more widely known following a graffiti war with Banksy. There had been a previous meeting between Robbo and Banksy in the nineties during where Robbo claimed he slapped Banksy, a claim Banksy denied...
(London) - graffiti, trainwriting, street art - SickboySickboy (artist)Sickboy is the name of a street artist from Bristol, UK, known for his temple logo and his 'Save the Youth' slogan. Sickboy moved to London in 2007 and his street art became prevalent particularly in the East End boroughs of Shoreditch and Tower Hamlets...
(Bristol, London) - graffiti, street art
Brazil
- Alexandre ŌrionAlexandre OrionAlexandre Orion is a Brazilian graffiti artist and photographer.He gained attention for his exhibition Metabiotics in 2006, a graffiti/photography project in which he painted graffiti pieces with white and black latex paint and photographed people interacting with them...
- graffiti, stencil graffiti, photography - Os GemeosOs GêmeosOs Gêmeos are graffiti artist identical twin brothers from São Paulo, Brazil, whose real names are Otavio and Gustavo Pandolfo. They started painting graffiti in 1987 and gradually became a main influence in the local scene, helping to define Brazil's own style...
- graffiti
Canada
- Esm-ArtificialEsm-artificiala.k.a. esm-artificial is a Canadian Pop-culture graphic designer/artist and satirist.-Biography:Hailing from Vancouver, British Columbia, this Canadian artist/designer graduated from the Emily Carr Institute of Art & Design or ECI in 1999...
- wheatpasting, screen printing - PosterchildPosterchild (street artist)Posterchild is the nom de plume of a street artist based in Toronto, Canada who may be best known for his Mario Blocks project, the purpose of which is to install homemade Mario blocks in public spaces...
- stencil graffiti, street poster art
United States
- ABOVEAbove (artist)ABOVE has been creating public art since 1995. Above is an international street artist who keeps his identity concealed. Above is known for his multi-layer/full color social and political stencils, spinning wooden "arrow mobile" installations, and large mural "word play" paintings. Above started...
- humorous text based word play, installation artInstallation artInstallation art describes an artistic genre of three-dimensional works that are often site-specific and designed to transform the perception of a space. Generally, the term is applied to interior spaces, whereas exterior interventions are often called Land art; however, the boundaries between...
, multi-coloured stencils (very heavy in social and political meaning) - Antonia GerstackerAntonia GerstackerAntonia Kay Gerstacker , better known as "Art Girl", is a renowned 21st century American abstract naive artist and muralist. Antonia began her art career in the 1990s. In the 1980s she was often photographed as an international fashion model beginning a career in fashion at an early age...
- murals, graffiti - AVANTAVANTAVANT, also known as AVANT street art guerrilla collective, was the artist group active in New York City from 1980 to 1984. By 1984 AVANT had produced thousands of acrylic on paper paintings and plastered them on walls, doors, bus-stops and galleries city-wide...
- guerrilla art, street art - Avoid piAvoid piAdam VOID is an artist, musician and activist living in Baltimore, Maryland. VOID has worked under the pseudonym AVOID pi since 1999 and has produced numerous street works across the United States and Europe. He began his artistc career in South Carolina and in 2006 moved to Brooklyn, New York to...
- graffiti, wheatpasting - B.N.E.B.N.E. (artist)BNE is a New York based graffiti artist, who has left his mark in cities throughout the world, including the United States, Canada, Asia,Australia Europe, and South America. He is considered to be one of the most prolific street artists of all time. His identity is unknown by the public, yet he is...
- New York City - Beautiful AngleBeautiful AngleBeautiful Angle is a guerrilla arts poster project in Tacoma, Washington.. Approximately once per month, graphic designer Lance Kagey and writer Tom Llewellyn create hand-crafted, letterpress posters and then distribute them around the city's downtown core via wheat paste and staples..- History :In...
- (Tacoma, WashingtonTacoma, WashingtonTacoma is a mid-sized urban port city and the county seat of Pierce County, Washington, United States. The city is on Washington's Puget Sound, southwest of Seattle, northeast of the state capital, Olympia, and northwest of Mount Rainier National Park. The population was 198,397, according to...
) wheatpasting letterpress - Cope2Cope2Fernando Carlo is a graffiti artist from the South Bronx, New York. He has been writing graffiti since 1978-79, and has gained international credit for his work. Though he is now known worldwide, he didn't receive recognition in the mainstream graffiti world until the mid-1990s.Cope2's cousin...
- graffiti - Dan WitzDan WitzDan Witz is a Brooklyn, NY based street artist and realist painter. He grew up in Chicago, IL, and graduated in 1981 from Cooper Union, on New York City's Lower East Side. Witz, consistently active since the late 1970s, is one of the pioneers of the street art movement.Dan Witz's paintings have...
- Street Artist, New York City - El CelsoEl CelsoEl Celso is a post-graffiti artist working on and off the streets of the United States. He was born in Newark, New Jersey and is currently active in the New York City area.-Career:...
- New York City - Ellis GallagherEllis GallagherEllis Gallagher is known primarily for chalk drawings made by outlining shadows in New York City. Gallagher was born on September 9, 1973. He is a native New Yorker living in the Greenpoint section of Brooklyn. Before his chalk drawings he was a graffiti writer, working in NYC mostly. He was...
- New York City - Faile (artist collective) (USA/Canada/Japan) - stencil graffiti, street poster art
- Graffiti Research LabGraffiti Research LabGraffiti Research Lab, founded by Evan Roth and James Powderly during their fellowships at the Eyebeam OpenLab, is an art group dedicated to outfitting graffiti writers, artists and protesters with open source technologies for urban communication. The members of the group experiment in a lab and in...
- (New York City) - LED throwie - KnittaKnittaKnitta Please, also known as simply Knitta, is the group of artists who began the "knit graffiti" movement in Houston, Texas in 2005. They are known for wrapping public architecture—e.g. lampposts, parking meters, telephone poles, and signage—with knitted or crocheted material...
- NsumiNsumiNsumi or Nsumi Collective, is a contemporary art collective based in New York City.Members of Nsumi claim that the group spawns art collectives and experimental groups through a gift economy consulting project, workshops, art exhibitions and performances, zines, academic research, and public...
- guerrilla art, Street Installations, Culture JammingCulture jammingCulture jamming, coined in 1984, denotes a tactic used by many anti-consumerist social movements to disrupt or subvert mainstream cultural institutions, including corporate advertising. Guerrilla semiotics and night discourse are sometimes used synonymously with the term culture jamming.Culture... - Josh MacPheeJosh MacPheeJosh MacPhee is an artist, curator and activist living in Brooklyn, New York. MacPhee graduated from Oberlin College in 1996 and spent eight years as an artist and activist in Chicago, Illinois where he established a distribution system called justseeds in order get more radical art projects out to...
- stencil graffiti, street poster art, Screenprinting - KAWSKAWS (artist)Brian Donnelly , professionally known as KAWS, is a New York-based artist and designer of limited edition toys and clothing. He currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.-Biography:...
- graffiti - KraneKraneThe Krane family is the name of noble family from Germany. The family dates back in the 12th century.- References :*http://worldroots.com/brigitte/royal/hohenzollern/index-f.htm*http://altemauern.heim.at/n_kranichberg.htm...
- graffiti - Mark JenkinsMark JenkinsMark Jenkins is an American artist most widely known for the street installations he creates using box sealing tape. In addition to creating art, he also teaches his sculpture techniques through workshops in cities he visits...
- street installations - Mark MiremontMark MiremontMark Miremont is an American philosopher, photographer, filmmaker, music video director and occasional street artist.He was born in Madrid, Spain and studied philosophy at UCLA and Harvard...
- Neckface - graffiti
- OBEYObeyObey may refer to:*Obedience , the act of following instructions or recognizing someone's authority*André Obey, the 20th century French playwright*David Obey, US Congressman from Wisconsin...
- see: Shepard Fairey - OlekOlekOlek is a Polish-born American-residing artist whose work includes sculpture, installation, inflatables, and fiber art. Olek's installations have included crocheted bicycles, sculptures , apartments, and people...
- street installations - Poster BoyPoster Boy (street artist)Poster Boy is a New York City based street artist named Henry Matyjewicz whose only utensil is a razor. He is known for satiric collage-like works created by cutting out sections of the self-adhesive advertisement posters in the platforms of New York City subway stations, and pasting them back in...
- NYC Subway street artist - Priz-onePriz-OnePRIZ-ONE is the graffiti tag of a Cuban-American commercial artist, illustrator, and ex-golden glove boxer.-History:Martinez's parents immigrated to New York City during the turbulent Castro era...
- graffiti - Ron English - billboards, stencils, murals
- SAMOSAMO© GraffitiSAMO© Graffiti appeared in New York City from 1977 to early 1980. They were short phrases, in turns poetic and sarcastic, mainly painted on the streets of downtown Manhattan. The tag SAMO© has been primarily associated with the artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, but was developed mainly as a...
- see also: Jean-Michel BasquiatJean-Michel BasquiatJean-Michel Basquiat was an American artist. His career in art began as a graffiti artist in New York City in the late 1970s, and in the 1980s produced Neo-expressionist painting.-Early life:...
graffiti - Seen (artist) - "The godfather of graffiti" Graffiti art/Tattoo/Toys
- Shepard FaireyShepard FaireyFrank Shepard Fairey is an American contemporary graphic designer, and illustrator who emerged from the skateboarding scene. He first became known for his "André the Giant Has a Posse" sticker campaign, in which he appropriated images from the comedic supermarket tabloid Weekly World News. His...
- "André the Giant Has a Posse (OBEY)André the Giant Has a PosseAndre the Giant Has a Posse is a street art and viral marketing campaign based on a design by Shepard Fairey created in 1989 in Providence, Rhode Island. Distributed by the skater community, the stickers featuring an image of André the Giant began showing up in many cities across the U.S.A...
" - SmearSmear (Cristian Gheorghiu)Cristian Gheorghiu became famous as an American street artist/graffiti artist and contemporary painter under the name of Smear in the 2000s, and his name and tagger name were further launched into the public eye by a series of high profile arrests and subsequent articles on the arrests and on his...
- graffiti, street art, contemporary painter, Los Angeles - SwoonSwoon (artist)Swoon is a street artist born in New London, Connecticut, and raised in Daytona Beach, Florida. She moved to New York City at age nineteen, and specializes in life-size wheatpaste prints and paper cutouts of figures...
(New York City) - cut out, wheatpasting - Melanie StimmellMelanie StimmellMelanie Stimmell Van Latum, born March 24, 1975 in Los Angeles, is an International 3D street painter and Fine Artist Specializing in Large Scale Collaborative Projects and Renaissance style inspired Artistry....
- Madonnari Style Street Painting (California) - TAKI 183TAKI 183TAKI 183 was one of the most influential graffiti writers in its history. His "tag" was short for Demetaki, a Greek alternative for his birth-name Demetrius, and the number 183 came from his address on 183rd Street in Washington Heights...
- Bronx graffiti vandalism pioneer; Turk 182Turk 182Turk 182! is a 1985 film starring Timothy Hutton, Robert Urich, Kim Cattrall, Robert Culp and Peter Boyle. It is also one of the first movies to receive a PG-13 rating.-Film synopsis:...
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Australia
- CivilianCivilian (street artist)Civilian is a street artist operating out of Melbourne, Australia, who has been profiled as a 'leading player' of "the city's vibrant stencil art scene"...
- stencil graffiti, - DluxDlux (street artist)Dlux is a notable street artist operating out of Melbourne, Australia. His real name is James Dodd.Dlux began doing street art in Adelaide in 1998, working largely at first with stickers. Dlux only started doing stencils to mass-produce stickers...
- stencil graffiti, street poster art - Fred FowlerFred FowlerFred Fowler is an Australian-born visual artist, specialising in painting, drawing and printmaking. He currently lives in Paris, France.-History:Fred was born in 1980 in Canberra, Australia. In 1986, Fred moved to Melbourne with his family....
- stencil art, post-graffiti - Ha-HaHa-Ha (street artist)- Work :Ha-Ha is a stencil artist based in Melbourne, originally from Hamilton, New Zealand. Despite his occupation, Ha-Ha has never been to art school. He was inspired by a street artist known as "Psalm" at the start of his stenciling career, as well as "Rone" and "Phibs". Ha-Ha engages in...
- stencil graffiti, street poster art - MeekMeek (street artist)Meek is a notable street artist operating out of Melbourne, Australia, and specialising in the sub-genre of Stencil graffiti....
- stencil graffiti - Mini GraffMini GraffMini Graff is a New Zealand born, Sydney-based street artist who works in and around the city's urban fringe. The streets and inhabitants of the area provide the content and impetus for her work....
- stencil graffiti - PhibsPhibs (street artist)Phibs is a notable graffiti artist operating out of Melbourne, Australia. He credits writers D-Lite and Crim for helping him create his very distinct style. Phibs has been commissioned to large scale artworks by companies such as Absolut Vodka...
- stencil graffiti - PrismPrism (street artist)Prism is a notable street artist operating out of Melbourne Australia.Prism cut his first stencil in 2000 of Australian Prime Minister John Howard, with devil horns. Prism moved to Melbourne in 2001....
- stencil graffiti - SixtenSixten (street artist)Sixten is a notable street artist operating out of Melbourne, Australia. He originally comes from Sweden. In 2009 he was credited as the inspiration for the album cover of Green Day's album titled 21st Century Breakdown by the album artwork director Chris Bilheimer.- Background :Sixten did his...
- stencil graffiti, street poster art - SyncSync (street artist)Sync or Syn as he is sometimes called is a notable street artist operating out of Melbourne, Australia.At the start of Sync's career he was heavily into doing sticker art. He started doing stencils in 1996 in Adelaide but only to help himself mass produce stickers.In Adelaide, Sync worked for some...
- stencil graffiti, street poster art - Vexta - stencil graffiti
China
- Tsang Tsou ChoiTsang Tsou ChoiTsang Tsou Choi , or the "King of Kowloon" was a Hong Kong citizen known for his calligraphy graffiti.-Early years:...
aka King of Kowloon - graffiti