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JR is a French graffiti artist who has never revealed his real identity or shown his face to the public
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JR
Born:
1983
Citizenship: fr
Place(s) of work: Paris (fr)
Techniques & Media: Installation, Mural Art, Photography
Inspirations & Key Themes: Advertisement, Urban Space
Citizenship: fr
Place(s) of work: Paris (fr)
Bio:
Movements & Syles:
Street art
This French artist born near Paris in 1983, considers himself a photographer before being a street artist, and an activist before being an artist. Whatever the hierarchy, his work originates from his passion to publicize the things society keep unsaid. To do so he turns normal people into the protagonists of his large posters, plastered in the environment they inhabit. His career starts in 2004 when, a few months before the beginning of the youth riots in Paris, he undertakes his project, "Portrait d'une Génération," and photographs the inhabitants of the suburb of Clichy-Sous-Bois to then pla
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Techniques & Media: Installation, Mural Art, Photography
Inspirations & Key Themes: Advertisement, Urban Space
Website:
http://www.jr-art.net/
http://www.jr-art.net/
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