A pioneering avant-garde artist, recognized as one of the pioneers of the French Street Art movement, Speedy Graphito is now internationally recognized as one of the major artists of his generation.

Since the early 80s, just after the free figuration, he has been imbuing the collective memory and the walls of Paris with the Graphito Style, coloring them with his striking graphics. As prolific as he is inventive, Speedy uses all forms of expression – painting, sculpture, installation, photo or video, to create through his work and over the ages a universal language imbued with the spirit of the times.

Constantly evolving and reinventing himself, his trademark is that of a joyful and profound art, often with bright colors, in which he playfully and ironically shakes up our systems of perception. In this approach, he does not hesitate to appropriate and divert all the imagery of popular culture, superheroes, and even brands, thus achieving an almost systematic decryption of our collective unconscious.

The themes of childhood and death, always widely present, give the works a more autobiographical character, inspired by his wanderings and inner journeys.

Speedy Graphito is a popular artist. It was the commission for the poster for “La Ruée vers l'Art” in 1985 by the Ministry of Culture that immediately gave him wide recognition and public notoriety.