Space Invader Boulevard St-Germain 2 — artwork #5979 by Invader · Paris, France

Born in 1969, Invader is a French urban artist and graduate of the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Calling himself a "ULA" (Unidentified Living Artist), he began embedding ceramic tile mosaics inspired by the 1978 arcade game Space Invaders into city walls in 1996, driven by the desire to make art accessible beyond galleries and museums. After officially launching his "invasion" project in Paris i…

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 …

The artist started doing graffiti in the early 1990s before stepping away around 1996. In 2010, after visiting an exhibition at the Fondation Cartier, he returned to the streets with a deliberate street art focus. His alias, pronounced "Djizeupe", is borrowed from Snoop Dogg's track "GZ Up, Hoes Down". He sees himself more as a vandal than an artist, valuing the illegal dimension of the practice. …