List of street artists

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 adding missing items with reliable sources.

Africa

Egypt

• Alaa Awad - street art, painter
• Aya Tarek – graffiti
• Chico – stencil graffiti, street art
• El Teneen – graffiti
• Ganzeer – stencil graffiti
• Keizer – stencil graffiti, street poster art

Nigeria

• Osa Seven – graffiti, street art, graphic design

South Africa

• Faith47 – graffiti, street art, fine art
• Ben Jay Crossman - graffiti-style street artist, concept artist, illustrator, photographer, film producer, director

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
• Toniolo – graffiti

Canada

• Esm-Artificial – wheatpasting, screen printing
• Lionel (artist) - street installation, ad-hacks, wheatpasting, stencil graffiti
• Posterchild – stencil graffiti, street poster art

Mexico

• Pablo Delgado – paste-ups

Venezuela

• Enrique Enn – stencil graffiti, street poster art

United States

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
• B.N.E. (New York City)
• Beautiful Angle (Tacoma, Washington) – wheatpasting letterpress
• Jean-Michel Basquiat (New York City)
• Borf (Washington, D.C.) – graffiti, stencils
• Caine 1 (New York City)
• 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; OBEY campaign
• Tatyana Fazlalizadeh (New York) – Stop Telling Women to Smile campaign
• Futura 2000 (New York City) – subway writer
• 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)
• Hanksy (New York City)
• Indie184 (New York City)
• Kaws (New York City)
• Keith Haring (New York City)
• Maya Hayuk (New York) – boldly colored murals
• IZ the Wiz (born November 30, 1958 – June 17, 2009 as Michael Martin) – bold colored work ^[1][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
• Pat Perry – itinerant muralist
• Petal and Blosm - murals
• 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)
• Rubin415 (New York City) - graffiti
• Saber (Los Angeles) – graffiti
• Sabo (Los Angeles)
• SAMO (New York City)
• Sane Smith (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
• SJK 171 (New York City) – graffiti writing pioneer
• Skullphone (Los Angeles)
• Smear (Cristian Gheorghiu) (Los Angeles) – graffiti, street art, contemporary painter
• 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
• XVALA (primarily Los Angeles) - street installations, stencils, graffiti
• Tavar Zawacki (San Francisco) - Street art pioneer. Stencils, installation art, contemporary painter.

Asia

Afghanistan

• Shamsia Hassani – street art, digital art

Hong Kong

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

India

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

Iran

• A1one, also known as "Tanha" – graffiti, street Art
• Black Hand – pseudonymous stencil artist
• Reza Rioter – graffiti

Israel

• Solomon Souza – spray-paint art
• Know Hope - Social Practice artist

Korea

• Royal Dog - graffiti writing, spray murals

Pakistan

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

Thailand

• Headache Stencil

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

• TEJN – Lock On street sculptures, paste up, stencil, installation, conceptual art

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
• Ememem – anonymous street mosaic artist
• 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
• Seb Toussaint – street art, murals
• 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
• 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

• Will St Leger – stencil, painting

Italy

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

The Netherlands

• Ces53
• Harmen de Hoop – art interventions
• JDL street art ^[nl] - Large scale realistic murals
• Leon Keer – 3D street artist, anamorphic, street art
• Max Zorn

Norway

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

Poland

• Crocheted Olek – yarn bombing

Portugal

• Add Fuel (born Diogo Machado) – graffiti
• Bordalo II – large installations made from recycled trash
• Vhils – bas relief

Russia

• Pavel 183 – graffiti

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) (also known as 3D) – graffiti, street art, album covers
• Guy Denning (born Bristol) – stencil graffiti, paste-up, painting
• Ben Eine – street art, alphabet letters
• Inkie (Bristol 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
• Seb Toussaint – street art, murals, 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

• Biography portal
• Lists portal
• Visual arts portal

• Lists of artists by nationality

References

1. Iz the Wiz – Daily Telegraph obituary
2. "Elmer Beruk Unok". Graffiti Artist.
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.