David Walker is a London-based artist who creates explosively colorful portraits of people he’s never met. Each of his art works features a face that the artist found in a book, magazine or photograph. Walker says that the anonymity of his subjects allows the viewer to create their own background story for the person in [...]
The German art duo Herakut is made up of two German artists, Jamin and Falk who also go by the names Hera and Akut. The pair combines their talents and their love of both street art and fine art to create beautiful, emotive paintings that bring graffiti art into art galleries in the form of [...]
INTI is a graffiti artist from Santiago, Chile. His enormous street art paintings are giving the world of graffiti art a new appeal; turning an entire side of a building into a large scale art work brings fine art out of the galleries and into the streets. Inti’s graffiti paintings don’t resemble the messy scrawls [...]
Hua Tunan (born Chen Yingjie) is a Chinese painter and graffiti artist with an eye-catching style. Tunan’s art works appear to be a crossroads between art genres, a meeting point in which classical Chinese painting techniques combine with Jackson Pollock’s abstract splatter style, both of which are brought to the public eye via the canvas [...]
David Zinn is an American graffiti artist, illustrator and writer whose favorite hobby is covering sidewalks and public spaces with humorous chalk drawings. Zinn’s art works aren’t permanent, as the chalk is easily degraded by wind, rain and pedestrians. if you’re fortunate enough to see one of his funny graffiti pieces, it means that Zinn [...]
Christian Guémy is better known as C215. He displays his graffiti artist name, C215, in his street murals in the form of a child’s building block. The “C”, “2″ and “5″ are each shown on a side of the block, while the numeral “1″ is actually one of the block’s edges. C215 is a French [...]
Riyaan Wiener is an artist, musician and photographer from Cape Town, South Africa who calls his signature art style the Shinjuku Effect. Intent on exploring every creative realm, Riyaan has undertaken graffiti mural projects for companies like MXit and has created designs for tattoos, t-shirts, fliers and posters. Composing designs with graffiti and graphic elements, [...]
Etam Cru is a Polish graffiti team made up of street artists Bezt and Sainer. Because graffiti is an illegal art form that falls under the category of vandalism, graffiti artist don’t reveal much information about themselves. Unlike many commercial artists whose biographies and opinions are public information, graffiti artists lead very private lives. Their [...]
