List of street artists

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This is a list of notable street artists.

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by with reliable sources.

Africa[]

Egypt[]

Nigeria[]

  • Osa Seven – graffiti, street art, graphic design

South Africa[]

  • Faith47 – graffiti, street art, fine art

Americas[]

Argentina[]

  • Milagros Correch - muralist
  • Ever (Buenos Aires) – street art

Brazil[]

  • Alexandre Ōrion – graffiti, stencil graffiti, photography
  • Os Gemeos – graffiti
  • Ananda Nahu – graffiti
  • Eduardo Kobra – graffiti, muralist

Canada[]

  • Esm-Artificial – wheatpasting, screen printing
  • Posterchild – stencil graffiti, street poster art

Mexico[]

Venezuela[]

United States[]

(alphabetical by last name, unless the full name is a "stage name") A–L

  • ABOVE (San Francisco) - now known as Tavar Zawacki- stencils, installation art, contemporary painter.
  • Federico Archuleta (Austin, Texas) – stencil murals
  • Atlas, Alhambra, California
  • AVANT (New York City) – guerrilla art, street art
  • Avoid pi (also known as "Adam VOID"; South Carolina, Brooklyn) – graffiti, wheatpasting
  • B.N.E. (New York City)
  • Beautiful Angle (Tacoma, Washington) – wheatpasting letterpress
  • Jean-Michel Basquiat (New York City)
  • Borf (Washington, D.C.) – graffiti, stencils
  • André Pierre Charles (New York City)
  • David Choe (Los Angeles)
  • Clandestine Culture (Miami) wheatpaste posters
  • Claw Money (New York City)
  • Robbie Conal (Los Angeles) – poster art
  • Tim "CON" Conlon (Alexandria, Virginia) – graffiti, street installations
  • Cool "Disco" Dan (Dan Hogg, Washington, D.C.) – graffiti
  • Cope2 (born Fernando Carlo in the Bronx, New York) – graffiti
  • Cornbread (born Darryl McCray in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) – graffiti
  • Shai Dahan
  • Brad Downey (born 1980 in Louisville, Kentucky) – film, sculpture, painting and drawing.
  • El Celso (New York City)
  • Ron English – billboards, stencils, murals
  • Faile (Brooklyn, New York) – artist collective
  • Shepard Fairey (Los Angeles) – street artist and graphic designer; known for his OBEY campaign
  • Tatyana Fazlalizadeh (New York) – street artist responsible for the Stop Telling Women to Smile campaign
  • Futura 2000 (New York City) – subway writer
  • Ellis Gallagher (New York City)
  • Guerrilla Girls (New York City)
  • Graffiti Research Lab (New York City)
  • Dave Halili (Los Angeles) – graffiti and album cover artist
  • Richard Hambleton (New York City)
  • Indie184 (New York City)
  • (Los Angeles) – street artist known for his messages and his character IF (imaginary friend) [1]
  • Kaws (New York City)
  • Keith Haring (New York City)
  • Maya Hayuk (New York) – known for her very large scale boldly colored murals
  • IZ the Wiz (born November 30, 1958 – June 17, 2009 as Michael Martin) – one of the most prominent graffiti writers of the New York graffiti movement of the late 1970s and early 1980s[2]
  • Chris Johanson (California) - Graffiti, murals, sculpture, installation art
  • Lady Aiko (Brooklyn) – street art
  • Lady Pink (New York)
  • JonOne (New York City) – graffiti
  • Mark Jenkins (Alexandria, Virginia) – street installations
  • Michael Kirby (Baltimore, Maryland)
  • Margaret Kilgallen (San Francisco)
  • Knitta Please (Houston, Texas) – knitted graffiti
  • Liz LaManche (Boston) – murals, pavement art
  • Logan Hicks (New York City) - American Contemporary Artist

M–Z

  • Barry McGee (born 1966 in San Francisco, California; also known as "Twist", "Twister", "Ray Fong" and others)
  • Eric Millikin (Detroit)
  • Mr. Brainwash (Los Angeles)
  • Mear One (Los Angeles)
  • Mister Cartoon (Los Angeles) – tattoo, graffiti
  • Alec Monopoly (Los Angeles) – street art, fine art, murals
  • Morley (Los Angeles) – wheatpaste artist
  • Neck Face (California) – graffiti
  • Nsumi (New York City) – art collective
  • Olek (New York City) – street installations
  • Plastic Jesus (Los Angeles) – graffiti, street installations
  • Poster Boy (New York City) – New York City Subway street artist
  • Stephen Powers (ESPO)
  • Annie Preece (Los Angeles)
  • Priz-one (New York City) – graffiti
  • Rammellzee (New York City) – gothic futurist, graffiti
  • Retna (born Marquis Lewis 1979; Los Angeles) – graffiti
  • Revs (New York City), graffiti and urban art
  • Jorge Rodriguez-Gerada (New York City) – urban art, culture jamming
  • Stephanie Rond (Columbus, Ohio)
  • Saber (Los Angeles) – graffiti
  • Sabo (Los Angeles)
  • SAMO (New York City)
  • Scape Martinez (California) – abstract expressionist, graffiti, public art installations
  • Kenny Scharf (Los Angeles)
  • Seen (New York City) – "The godfather of graffiti", tattoos, toys
  • Sidewalk Sam (Boston) – pavement art
  • Skullphone (Los Angeles)
  • Smear (Cristian Gheorghiu) (Los Angeles) – graffiti, street art, contemporary painter
  • Sane Smith (New York City)
  • SJK 171 (New York City) – graffiti writing pioneer
  • The Splasher (New York City) – a serial vandal who splattered other works of street art with paint
  • Stay High 149 (born Wayne Roberts; October 20, 1950 – June 11, 2012; New York) – graffiti artist[3][4]
  • Melanie Stimmell (Los Angeles) – Madonnari-style street painting
  • Swoon (New York City) – cut out, wheatpasting
  • TAKI 183 (Bronx, New York) – graffiti writing pioneer
  • Jacek Tylicki (New York City) – early street art – art war
  • Erni Vales (New York City]
  • Dan Witz (Brooklyn, New York)
  • Jason Wulf (New York City) – graffiti artist
  • Tavar Zawacki (San Francisco) - Street art pioneer. Stencils, installation art, contemporary painter.

Asia[]

Afghanistan[]

Hong Kong[]

  • Tsang Tsou Choi, also known as "King of Kowloon" – graffiti

India[]

  • Daku, pseudonymous – graffiti, social commentary
  • Yantr, pseudonymous – machines, social commentary

Iran[]

Israel[]

Korea[]

  • Royal Dog - graffiti writing, spray murals

Pakistan[]

  • Sanki King (Karachi) – graffiti, street art, sneaker art

Thailand[]

Yemen[]

  • Murad Subay, known for his street art campaigns, that engage the community in doing art and murals to express themselves via art – street art and graffiti

Europe[]

Belgium[]

  • ROA – graffiti (animals and birds)

Denmark[]

Finland[]

  • Sampsa – graffiti, stencil art and painting

France[]

  • André (born 1971 as André Saraiva; also known as "Mr. A", "Monsieur A" or "Monsieur André") – Swedish-Portuguese graffiti artist; lives in Paris
  • Ash – graffiti
  • Blek le Rat – stencil graffiti, poster art
  • C215 – stencil graffiti
  • Darco (born 1968 as Darco Gellert in Bielefeld, Germany) – graffiti artist; lives and works in Paris
  • EL Seed – calligraphy graffiti
  • Invader – mosaic
  • Jef Aérosol – stencil graffiti
  • JR – graffiti, poster art, photography
  • Kim Prisu - stencil graffiti
  • Thierry Noir – Berlin Wall artist
  • M. Chat (Thoma Vuille, born July, 16 1977) – graffiti
  • Miss.Tic – stencil
  • Miss Van – graffiti
  • Zevs (born 1977) – anonymous street artist

Georgia[]

  • Gagosh – street artist; stencil, graffiti, mosaics, installation

Germany[]

  • 3Steps (founded 1998) – a contemporary street artist collective between the twins Kai Harald Krieger (born March 15, 1980) and Uwe Harald Krieger (born March 15, 1980) and Joachim Pitt (born December 8, 1980)
  • DAIM (born 1971 in Lüneburg as Mirko Reisser) – graffiti
  • Darco see: France
  • DOME (real name: Christian Krämer) – street art, murals, urban art
  • El Bocho (Berlin) – street art
  • Ememem – anonymous street mosaic artist
  • Boris Hoppek (born 1970, in Kreuztal; also known as "Forty") – contemporary artist based in Barcelona; artistic roots lie in graffiti, but today his work spans painting, photography, video, sculpture and installation art
  • Irmela Mensah-Schramm – hate speech alteration / effacement, archiving
  • MadC (real name: Claudia Walde) – graffiti, graphic design
  • Klark Kent (born 1973 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany) – graffiti artist and music producer
  • van Ray (born 1984 in Düsseldorf) – street art and urban art artist
  • Various & Gould – Berlin based street art and urban art duo
  • Undenk (Germany and Australia)

Greece[]

  • Argiris Ser – street art, graffiti, lowbrow
  • Bleeps.gr – street painting, wheatpasting, stencil graffiti
  • INO – painting, murals, graffiti, street art
  • Woozy (born 1979 as Vaggelis Hoursoglou) – street art, graffiti

Ireland[]

Italy[]

  • 108 – graffiti
  • Blu – graffiti, stop motion
  • Cibo – murals over neo-fascist graffiti
  • Geco – graffiti[5]
  • Sten Lex – stencil

The Netherlands[]

Norway[]

  • Dolk – graffiti, stencil graffiti
  • DOT DOT DOT – visual art, public art, conceptual art, graffiti
  • Pøbel – graffiti, stencil graffiti
  • Martin Whatson – graffiti

Poland[]

  • BerriBlue (born 1992), born Gdansk, based in Porto, Portugal
  • Crocheted Olek – yarn bombing

Portugal[]

  • Add Fuel (born Diogo Machado) – graffiti
  • Vhils – bas relief

Russia[]

Spain[]

  • Chanoir (Barcelona) – graffiti
  • El Xupet Negre (Barcelona) – graffiti
  • La Mano/Nami (Spanish for The Hand) – graffiti artist based in Barcelona
  • Muelle (Madrid)

Sweden[]

  • Akay – graffiti
  • Czon – sculptures, statues, installations, pasties, graffiti[6]
  • Max Magnus Norman – sculptures, installations
  • NUG – graffiti, video art

Switzerland[]

  • Dare (graffiti artist) (1968-2010) real name Sigi (Siegfried) von Koeding, was a Swiss graffiti artist and curator
  • Harald Naegeli (born December 4, 1939) – known as the "Sprayer of Zurich" after the graffiti he sprayed in the late 1970s
  • NEVERCREW (Christian Rebecchi, born December 20, 1980; Pablo Togni, born September 29, 1979) – mural paintings, installations

England[]

  • Banksy (Bristol) – graffiti, stencil graffiti
  • Cartrain (London-Leytonstone) – stencil, collage
  • James Cochran (London) – graffiti, street art, murals
  • Andy Council (Bristol) – graffiti, murals
  • Cutup (London) – billboards
  • Darren Cullen (London) – graffiti, stencil graffiti
  • Robert Del Naja (Bristol) – graffiti, street art, album covers
  • Guy Denning (born Bristol) – stencil graffiti, paste-up, painting
  • Ben Eine—street art, alphabet letters
  • Inkie (Bristol (London)and London) – graffiti, street art, grap design
  • Paul Insect (London) – graffiti, stencil graffiti, street art
  • Alex Martinez (Notting Hill, London) – graffiti, street art
  • Adam Neate (London) – art on cardboard
  • King Robbo (London) – graffiti, trainwriting, street art
  • Sickboy (Bristol and London) – graffiti, street art
  • Rich Simmons (Croydon) – street art, stencil graffiti, pop art
  • Stik (London) – graffiti, street art
  • Temper (Birmingham/Wolverhampton) graffiti, canvas
  • Nick Walker (Bristol) – graffiti, murals
  • Phlegm (Sheffield) - murals, street art
  • Christiaan Nagel (London) - The Mushroom Man, street art sculpture

Oceania[]

Australia[]

  • Civilian – stencil graffiti
  • Luke Cornish (also known as "E.L.K.")) – stencil graffiti
  • Lushsux - graffiti
  • Facter (also known as "Fletcher Andersen")) – graffiti, street art & toy designer
  • Fred Fowler – stencil art, post-graffiti
  • Jisoe – graffiti
  • Juilee Pryor – murals
  • Meek – stencil graffiti
  • Mini Graff – stencil graffiti
  • Phibs – stencil graffiti
  • Prism – stencil graffiti
  • Rone – stencil graffiti, street poster art
  • Shida – murals
  • Stormie Mills – graffiti art
  • Vexta – stencil graffiti
  • ZAM-1 – graffiti

See also[]

  • Lists of artists by nationality

References[]

  1. ^ "Brooklyn-Street-Art-Battle-27-August-MAP".
  2. ^ Iz the Wiz – Daily Telegraph obituary
  3. ^ Millor, Ivor (2002). Aerosol kingdom: subway painters of New York City. University Press of Mississippi. p. 41. ISBN 978-1-57806-465-6.
  4. ^ Pollitt, Katha (November 1982). "Rev. of Graffiti, Gays & A Dull Diary". Mother Jones Magazine. Retrieved June 2, 2010.
  5. ^ Povoledo, Elisabetta (November 14, 2020). "Rome Tracks Down the Man Behind All That Graffiti. No, It's Not Banksy". The New York Times.
  6. ^ "Illegal konst vid borgruinen får beröm". 8 October 2014.
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