Street art in Paris
861 artwork(s) matching your search.
Where to find street art in Paris (France)
The roots of urban art in the French capital stretch back to the 1980s, when graffiti writers turned the 19th arrondissement's Stalingrad area into a legendary Hall of Fame. Stencil pioneer Blek Le Rat, Jérôme Mesnager with his signature White Man silhouettes, and Jef Aérosol were among the first to transform Parisian walls into canvases. By 1987, Keith Haring had painted a mural inside Necker Hospital, signaling early institutional recognition of a movement that would reshape the city's visual landscape.
The hilltop streets of Belleville and Ménilmontant in the 20th arrondissement remain a living gallery, with Rue Denoyez standing out as a dense corridor of murals and artist studios. In the 13th arrondissement, Boulevard Vincent Auriol and Rue Jeanne d'Arc host towering facades painted by Obey, C215 and Seth, making the district Europe's foremost open-air collection of large-scale murals. Over in the 11th, Le M.U.R. on Rue Oberkampf has rotated a new artist panel every three weeks since 2003, while Da Cruz's vibrant murals line the Canal de l'Ourcq in the 19th.
Invader has installed over 1,500 pixel-art mosaics across the city, and artists like Kashink and Ememem continue to push boundaries. The annual Ourcq Living Colors festival brings painters to the canal banks each summer, and Fluctuart, a floating urban art centre that opened in 2019, hosts exhibitions year-round. Specialist galleries such as Itinérance and MathGoth anchor the 13th arrondissement's creative ecosystem, where public commissions and guided walking tours now sit alongside spontaneous interventions.
Find the 861 artworks by the following street artists in Paris (France)
Here are the greatest hunters in the city
Coming soon: city referents and ambassadors.