Miss.Tic
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Miss.Tic is a French artist born in Paris on 20 February 1956. She is known for her stencils of dark haired woman often seen in the streets of Paris and associated with poetry. She has been active as a street artist since 1985.[1]
Biography[]
Miss.Tic was born in 1956 in Montmartre from a Tunisian immigrant and a mother from Normandy. She spent her childhood there until 1964 when the family moved to Orly, in the southern suburbs. When she was ten, she lost her mother, her little brother and her grandmother in a car accident. Then, when she was 16 her father died in turn. She was then raised by her stepmother who was a bar tender but she escaped from that world and quickly started to work on her stencils. She moved to California in the early 1980s.[2]
She went back to Paris after a breakup. She started to express herself on the walls in parts of Ménilmontant, Montmartre, le Marais, Montorgueil and la Butte-aux-Cailles. In 1985 she signed her first personal exhibition based on her art.[3]
Since then she has kept on spreading her ideas through poems and wordplay on the walls and in books or exhibitions.
In 1985 too, she participated in the first meeting of the graffiti and urban art movement in Bondy (France), on the 's initiative, with Speedy Graphito, Kim Prisu, Jef Aérosol, , , Blek le rat, Futura 2000, , … In March 2011, a series of stamps was issued for International Women's Day inspired by some of her stencils.
Collections[4][]
Fond d’art contemporain de la ville de Paris[5]
Victoria and Albert Museum, Londres, Angleterre.[6]
Musée Ingres, Montauban.
References[]
- ^ "Miss.Tic". Women Street Artists. Retrieved 2020-09-14.
- ^ à 19h36, Par Frédéric ChouletLe 28 mai 2018 (2018-05-28). "Miss. Tic à cœur perdu". leparisien.fr (in French). Retrieved 2020-09-14.
- ^ Une femme mur, biography in the French newspaper Libération.
- ^ "Miss Tic - Street Artist Poétesse". Galerie Art Jingle. 2017-06-13. Retrieved 2020-09-14.
- ^ "Rencontre avec l'artiste Miss.Tic". www.paris.fr (in French). Retrieved 2020-09-14.
- ^ "Your Search Results | Search the Collections | Victoria and Albert Museum". collections.vam.ac.uk. Retrieved 2020-09-14.
- ^ "Livre - Parisienne". Mucem. Retrieved 2020-09-14.
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