Cat Mural on Boulevard Auriol — artwork #5387 by A2 · Paris, France

A2 is an anonymous French urban artist active in Paris. His pseudonym stands for "A squared" — "Amour et Anarchie" (Love and Anarchy) — the twin forces he places at the heart of his practice. A tagger since his teens, he turned to street art around 2010 and in 2011 adopted the persona of Louise Michel, the iconic figure of the Paris Commune, whom he depicts sporting a punk mohawk. His first major …

C215 is the pseudonym of Christian Guémy, a French stencil artist born in October 1973 in Bondy, near Paris. He holds multiple degrees from the Sorbonne in history, art history and architectural history. After careers in trade research, textiles and finance, he turned to stencil art in 2006 upon settling in Vitry-sur-Seine. By 2007 he had joined the Le MUR project, quickly establishing a distincti…

Born on February 15, 1970 in Charleston, USA, Shepard Fairey (Obey) is now a major artist of the street art movement, rising to prominence in the early 1990s through the dispersion of posters, stickers, and murals, related to his seminal Obey Giant campaign, which yielded an international cultural phenomenon. Expanding on the legacies of artists such as Keith Haring and Andy Warhol, F…