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This is a list of notable street artists.

Africa

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Egypt

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Nigeria

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  • Osa Seven – graffiti, street art, graphic design

South Africa

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

Americas

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Argentina

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Brazil

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Canada

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Mexico

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Venezuela

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United States

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A–L

M–Z

Asia

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Afghanistan

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Hong Kong

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India

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

Iran

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Israel

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Korea

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Pakistan

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

Thailand

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Yemen

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  • 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

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Belgium

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  • ROA – graffiti (animals and birds)

Denmark

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Finland

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  • Sampsa – graffiti, stencil art and painting

France

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  • 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 NoirBerlin 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

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

Germany

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  • 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

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  • 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

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Italy

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

The Netherlands

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Norway

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Poland

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Portugal

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

Russia

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Spain

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Sweden

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

Switzerland

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  • 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

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  • 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

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Australia

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See also

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References

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  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.