Colorz (born in 1972) - Untitled, 2012 - Spray paint and marker on lamp - 137 x 54 x 23 cm

Colorz (born in 1972) - Trocadero, 2015 - Spray paint on parisian metro sign - 50 x 230 cm

Dize (born in 1974) - Untitled, 2012 - Spray paint and marker on mailbox - 50 x 24 x 34 cm

FenX (born in 1974) - Untitled, 2012 - Mixed media on parisian bus sign - 46 x 52 x 41 cm

Gilbert (born in 1971) - Untitled, 2013 - Spray paint and marker on mailbox - 41 x 17 x 26 cm

Gilbert (born in 1971) - Untitled, 2012 - Spray paint stencil and marker on 50's road sign - 80 x 80 x 80 cm

Kan (born in 1977) - Axe Rouge, 2015 - Marker on road sign - 25 x 45 cm

Kan (born in 1977) - Place Jean-Paul Fargue, 2015 - Marker on enameled road sign - 49 x 50 cm

KENOR (born in 1976) - Untitled, 2013 - Spray paint on la Santé jail Lamp in Paris - 131 x 36 x 25 cm

MOMIES (born in 1976) - Modules 19.4, 2019 - Acrylic on canvas signed and dated on the back - 146 x 114 cm

MOMIES (born in 1976) - Modules 20.10, 2020 - Acrylic on canvas signed and dated on the back - 130 x 89 cm

MOMIES (born in 1976) - Modules 20.11, 2020 - Acrylic on canvas signed and dated on the back - 130 x 89 cm

MOMIES (born in 1976) - Modules 20.12, 2020 - Acrylic on canvas signed and dated on the back - 130 x 195 cm

Nebay (born in 1973) - Untitled, 2013 - Spray paint and marker on enameled road sign - 20 x 250 cm

Nebay (born in 1973) - Armistice, 2014 - Acrylic end spray paint on 4L door - 100 x 95 x 10cm

Nebay (born in 1973) - La Paix n’a pas de couleurs, 2014 - Acrylic and spray paint on 4L door - 100 x 95 x 10 cm

RIME (born in 1979) - Le Public, 2014 - Spray paint and marker on american phone booth - 166 x 41 x 36 cm

RIME (born in 1979) - Le Thug Traffic Light, 2014 - Acrylic and spray paint on american traffic light - 93 x 70 x 70 cm

RIME (born in 1979) - Le Yo, 2014 - Acrylic and marker on american mailbox - 127 x 51 x 54 cm


The « City Dweller » is the townsman, the one who articulates his life and space around the urban environment that surrounds him.

The graffiti artist is the supreme City Dweller, the one who best succeed in taking over the place of passage and life we call the street and transform it to an interchangeable and malleable canvas depending on his desires.

For that, he uses everything that the street has to offer to him: street lamp, road signs, walls, mailbox… An open-air gallery made and undone for the eyes of a population that’s always on the move.

The street becomes the heart in which he draws all of his energy, and retranscribes it in canvases, sculptures, or creation which makes him pass from the « street artist » to the artist himself, democratizing an art neglected for too long.

In return, the graffiti artist gives splendor to the street by offering to all the other City Dwellers a message that unites them around the beauty of creation, but also makes them question about the society he lives in.

It’s this reciprocal relationship between the street and the graffiti artist that the City Dwellers, an exhibition born from the collaboration between GCA Gallery NICE and the Wallworks gallery wants to highlight through urban furnitures, but also canvases that witnesses the importance of the urban environment on today’s art, inside and outside the gallery.