This is a list of notable

street art Street art is visual art created in public locations for public visibility. It has been associated with the terms "independent art", "post-graffiti", "neo-graffiti" and guerrilla art. Street art has evolved from the early forms of defiant graff ...

ists.

Africa

Egypt

* Alaa Awad - street art, painter *

Aya Tarek Aya Tarek ( ar, آية طارق) is an Egyptian artist from the city of Alexandria. Tarek's mediums are primarily street art or graffiti and paint. Although street art in Egypt gained much international attention after the 2011 revolution, Tare ...

– graffiti * Chico – stencil graffiti, street art * El Teneen – graffiti *

Ganzeer Ganzeer ( arz, جنزير , "chain") (born 1982 in Giza) is the pseudonym used by an Egyptian artist who has gained mainstream fame in Egypt and internationally following the 2011 Egyptian Revolution. Prior to the revolution, Ganzeer's popu ...

– stencil graffiti * Keizer – stencil graffiti, street poster art

Nigeria

* Osa Seven – graffiti, street art, graphic design

South Africa

Faith47 Faith47 / Faith XLVII (born Cape Town, 1979) is a South African interdisciplinary artist who has held solo exhibitions in Miami (2018), New York City (2015),

– graffiti, street art, fine art *

Ben Jay Crossman Ben Jay Crossman is a Britishborn South African raised graffiti-style street artist, concept artist, illustrator, photographer, film producer, and director, known for his collaborations with Roger Ballen and Die Antwoord. Works Veronika Be ...

- graffiti-style street artist, concept artist, illustrator, photographer, film producer, director

Americas

Argentina

* Milagros Correch - muralist *

Ever Ever may refer to: * Ever (artist), creator of street art, from Buenos Aires, Argentina * Ever, Kentucky * -ever, an English suffix added to interrogative words in forms like ''wherever'' * KT Tech EVER, a South Korean mobile phone manufacture ...

(Buenos Aires) – street art

Brazil

* Alexandre Ōrion – graffiti, stencil graffiti, photography *

Os Gemeos OSGEMEOS (also known as Os Gemeos or Os Gêmeos, Portuguese for ''The Twins'') are identical twin street artists Otavio Pandolfo and Gustavo Pandolfo (born 1974). They started painting graffiti in 1987 and their work appears on streets and in gall ...

– graffiti * Ananda Nahu – graffiti *

Eduardo Kobra Carlos Eduardo Fernandes Léo (born January 1, 1976 in São Paulo, Brazil), known as Eduardo Kobra, nicknamed Kobra, is a street artist who officially began his career in 1987 at 11 years old, in his hometown of São Paulo. Since then he has pai ...

– graffiti, muralist

Canada

* Esm-Artificial – wheatpasting, screen printing *

Posterchild Posterchild is the pseudonym of a street artist based in Toronto, Canada who may be best known for his Mario Blocks project, the purpose of which is to install homemade Mario blocks in public spaces. After being featured on Boing Boing the pro ...

– stencil graffiti, street poster art

Mexico

* Pablo Delgado – paste-ups

Venezuela

* Enrique Enn – stencil graffiti, street poster art

United States

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

Asia

Afghanistan

* Shamsia Hassani – street art, digital art

Hong Kong

Tsang Tsou Choi Tsang Tsou-choi (), commonly referred to as the "King of Kowloon" () (12 November 1921 – 15 July 2007) was a Hong Kong citizen known for his calligraphy graffiti. Early years Tsang was born in Liantang Village (), Koyiu (Gaoyao), Shiuh ...

, also known as "King of Kowloon" – graffiti

India

* Daku, pseudonymous – graffiti, social commentary *

Yantr ''Yantr'' is a pseudonymous Street artist, graffiti artist from Delhi, India. ''Yantr'' is a Sanskrit word which literally means "machine". Early life The real identity of him is not known. Not much is known about his life. He was raised in Ass ...

, pseudonymous – machines, social commentary

Iran

A1one A1one (pronounced ''alone''; fa, تنها, Tanhâ) is the pseudonym of Karan Reshad, an Iranian visual artist who pioneered graffiti and street art in Iran. His career as a street artist began in his hometown Tehran. Life and career A1one ...

, also known as "Tanha" – graffiti, street Art *

Black Hand Black Hand or The Black Hand may refer to: Extortionists and underground groups * Black Hand (anarchism) (''La Mano Negra''), a presumed secret, anarchist organization based in the Andalusian region of Spain during the early 1880s * Black Hand (e ...

– pseudonymous stencil artist * Reza Rioter – graffiti

Israel

Solomon Souza Solomon Souza (born 1993) is a British-Israeli street artist. He is best known for spray painting portraits of contemporary and historical figures on the metal shutters of the Mahane Yehuda Market ("The Shuk") in Jerusalem, turning them into an ...

– spray-paint art * Know Hope - Social Practice artist

Korea

* Royal Dog - graffiti writing, spray murals

Pakistan

Sanki King Abdullah Ahmed Khan ( ur, , born 1990)Qamar, Saadia (July 30, 2012)Sanki King’s graffiti knows no boundaries ''The Express Tribune''. professionally known as Sanki ( ur, ) or Sanki King is a Pakistani graffiti, calligraffiti and street arti ...

(Karachi) – graffiti, street art, sneaker art

Thailand

* Headache Stencil

Yemen

Murad Subay Murad Subay (born July 3, 1987 in Dhamar) is a Yemeni contemporary artist, street artist and a political activist who has launched several street art campaigns of which society engagement marked one of their important elements. He first started ...

, 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 Tejn is a harbour town on the north-eastern coast of the Danish island of Bornholm, south of Allinge-Sandvig. As of 1 January 2022, it has a population of 858. Initially a fishing village, it grew considerably during the 20th century as the harb ...

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

Finland

* Sampsa – graffiti, stencil art and painting

France

Georgia

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

Germany

Greece

* Argiris Ser – street art, graffiti, lowbrow * Bleeps.gr – street painting, wheatpasting, stencil graffiti * INO – painting, murals, graffiti, street art *

Woozy Woozy may refer to: * Woozy (Oz), a fictional creature in the children's novel ''The Patchwork Girl of Oz'' * Woozy Winks, the sidekick of fictional superhero Plastic Man * "Woozy", a track by Faithless used in the soundtrack to '' The Beach'' ...

(born 1979 as Vaggelis Hoursoglou) – street art, graffiti

Ireland

Will St Leger Will St Leger is a street artist/artivist, Radio DJ and gay rights activist living in Dublin, Ireland. Activism A former Greenpeace activist St Leger has been involved in activism for many years. In 2009, St Leger co founded an LGBT direct actio ...

– stencil, painting

Italy

108 108 may refer to: * 108 (number) * AD 108, a year * 108 BC, a year * 108 (artist) (born 1978), Italian street artist * 108 (band), an American hardcore band * 108 (emergency telephone number), an emergency telephone number in several states in Ind ...

– graffiti *

Blu Blu or BLU may refer to: Businesses and brands *Blu (Italian company), a telecommunications company *Blu Manga, an imprint of Tokyopop * blu eCigs, a brand of electronic cigarette owned by Imperial Tobacco *BLU Products, an American mobile phone m ...

– graffiti, stop motion * Cibo – murals over neo-fascist graffiti *

Geco The General Engineering Company of Ontario (GECO, pronounced: "Gee-ko") was a munitions plant located in Scarborough, Toronto, and owned by the Government of Canada. Between July 1941 to July 1945, GECO filled more than 256 million units of ammuni ...

– graffiti * Sten Lex – stencil

The Netherlands

Ces53 Ces53 is the graffiti name of Tonny van Hoenderloo van Zandt, street art/graffiti artist from the Netherlands. ''Ces53'' has been active since 1985 and is the creator of many international street art/graffiti paintings, predominantly in Europe ...

Harmen de Hoop Harmen de Hoop (born 1959) is a Dutch artist known for his anonymous and illegal interventions in public space. They are small, yet very direct actions that react to the manner in which urban space is used and the regulations that have been laid do ...

– art interventions * - Large scale realistic murals *

Leon Keer Leon Keer (born 1980) is a Dutch pop-surrealist artist. He has created work on canvas and (''3D'') artwork on the streets across the world. Leon Keer is a leading artist in anamorphic street art. His art has been showcased in Europe, the United ...

– 3D street artist, anamorphic, street art *

Max Zorn Max August Zorn (; June 6, 1906 – March 9, 1993) was a German mathematician. He was an algebraist, group theorist, and numerical analyst. He is best known for Zorn's lemma, a method used in set theory that is applicable to a wide range of ...

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 Agata Oleksiak (born 5 April 1978), known as Olek, is a Polish artist who is based in New York City. Their works include sculptures, installations such as crocheted bicycles, inflatables, performance pieces, and fiber art. They have covered buil ...

– yarn bombing

Portugal

Add Fuel Add Fuel is Portuguese visual artist and illustrator Diogo Machado (born 1980). With a degree in Graphic Design from Lisbon's IADE – Institute of Visual Arts, Design and Marketing, he spent a few years working in design studios in Portugal, foll ...

(born Diogo Machado) – graffiti *

Vhils Vhils (born 1987) is the tag name of Portuguese graffiti and street artist Alexandre Manuel Dias Farto. Life Alexandre Farto was born in Portugal in 1987. He studied at the Byam Shaw School of Art in London. Vhils lives and works in London and ...

– bas relief

Russia

* Pavel 183 – graffiti

Spain

Chanoir Chanoir, also known as Alberto Vejarano, is a contemporary French-Colombian street artist born in 1976 in Bogota. His nickname is a reference to a poster of the famous Parisian cabaret Le Chat Noir, by Théophile Steinlen. Biography Chanoir bec ...

(Barcelona) – graffiti * El Xupet Negre (Barcelona) – graffiti * La Mano/Nami (Spanish for The Hand) – graffiti artist based in

Barcelona Barcelona ( , , ) is a city on the coast of northeastern Spain. It is the capital and largest city of the autonomous community of Catalonia, as well as the second most populous municipality of Spain. With a population of 1.6 million within ci ...

Muelle Muelle was a trademark signature and design by Juan Carlos Argüello, Spanish graffiti pioneer (circa 1966–1995). Around 1980, during the Madrilene cultural Movida, Argüello started reproducing the logo he had designed in walls and public ...

(Madrid)

Sweden

* Akay – graffiti * Czon – sculptures, statues, installations, pasties, graffiti * Max Magnus Norman – sculptures, installations * NUG – graffiti, video art

Switzerland

Dare (graffiti artist) Dare, born Siegfried von Koeding (15 September 19686 March 2010) was a Swiss graffiti artist and curator. Life and Work Dare was born in Basel, Basel, Switzerland, to Swiss author Yvette Amman and the German Rolf Kurt von Koeding. He began wr ...

(1968-2010) real name Sigi (Siegfried) von Koeding, was a Swiss graffiti artist and curator *

Harald Naegeli Harald Naegeli (born 4 December 1939) is a Switzerland, Swiss artist best known as the "Sprayer of Zurich" after the graffiti he sprayed in the late 1970s onto walls and buildings in Zürich, Switzerland. The "Sprayer of Zürich" Naegeli has ...

(born December 4, 1939) – known as the "Sprayer of Zurich" after the graffiti he sprayed in the late 1970s *

NEVERCREW NEVERCREW is a Swiss street art group composed of Christian Rebecchi (born 1980) and Pablo Togni (born 1979). NEVERCREW create large format murals, installations and urban interventions that emerge from their analysis of the relationship between ...

(Christian Rebecchi, born December 20, 1980; Pablo Togni, born September 29, 1979) – mural paintings, installations