Graffiti
Graffiti started on city walls and trains, built on speed, boldness, and a need to be seen in public space rather than a gallery. This section features graffiti and street art influenced work on WooArts, from large scale mural style pieces to smaller studio work that keeps that same raw, spray paint energy. Lettering, characters, and bold color are common threads, along with a rebellious streak that comes from the medium’s roots outside the traditional art world. Even as some graffiti artists have moved into galleries and museums, the style still carries that same sense of urgency. Explore this section for art built on boldness.
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Frank Morrison | Graffiti
Frank Morrison is an American painter who turns hip hop rhythm and elongated, graceful figures into bold, colorful scenes of Black life. He started out as a graffiti artist and touring breakdancer before a visit to the Louvre pushed him toward fine art, and he now calls his paintings a memoir of everyday moments.
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JR | Graffiti
JR is a French street artist and photographer known for pasting monumental black and white portraits on buildings around the world. He received the TED Prize in 2011 and co-directed the documentary Faces Places with Agnès Varda, which was nominated for an Academy Award.
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Banksy | Graffiti
Banksy is an anonymous England based street artist who emerged from Bristol’s graffiti scene in the early 2000s with a distinctive stenciling technique. Known for dark humor and sharp social commentary, he directed the Oscar-nominated documentary Exit Through the Gift Shop and remains one of the most influential street artists alive.
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Sérgio Odeith | Graffiti
Sergio Odeith is a Portuguese street artist born in Damaia in 1976, who began painting with spray cans as a teenager and taught himself the craft entirely through practice on the walls around Lisbon. He is best known for the anamorphic murals he calls Somber 3D, begun in 2005, which use corners and flat walls…
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Keith Haring | Graffiti
Keith Haring was an American artist born in Reading, Pennsylvania, in 1958, who moved to New York City in 1978 to study at the School of Visual Arts and soon became known for spontaneous chalk drawings in the subway. He created more than fifty public artworks between 1982 and 1989, many for hospitals and schools,…
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David Walker | Graffiti
David Walker is an English street artist known for a signature style that blends spray paint, photorealism and graffiti energy, layering scrawled lines and translucent drips through clashing color. He began his career designing T-shirts for The Prodigy before launching his own streetwear label, Subsurface, and went on to hold his first major solo show,…
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Mantra | Graffiti Paintings | Graffiti
Mantra is a self-taught French graffiti artist, born in 1987, who has been active since 2008 and works globally out of the French street art scene. Known for his realistic, larger-than-life murals of butterflies, owls, and spiders, he pays tribute to childhood memories of nature through creatures that seem to echo sounds the modern world…
