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The top 50 verified artist accounts, based on their artworks and community interactions.

Studio Giftig1. Studio GiftigStudio Giftig consisting of the Netherlands-based artist duo Niels van Swaemen (1981, Eindhoven) and Kaspar van Leek (1983, Philipsburg St. Maarten). They come into contact with each other in 2007, at which time both individuals have been active in street art for some time. The duo developed a common painting style, with which they became known through their highly detailed (sur)realistic murals and paintings. Recognizable by the process in which they work is the way in which they translate their own personal concepts by photographing the objects and models themselves. That’s how they ensure a total autonomy within their visual language as a starting point for their paintings.
🥇 Winner: Best Of 2022
Diego As2. Diego AsI'm from the walled city of Lugo and I've been painting graffiti or urban art on the street with spray since I was 15 years old. I have made all kinds of works both in my city and in other parts of Spain such as Oviedo, Malaga, Madrid, Barcelona, Granada, Porto...
🎖️ Winner: Best of 2021
🏆 Nomination: Best Of 2022
Seth Globepainter3. Seth GlobepainterBorn in Paris, Seth began to express himself on the walls of his city in the mid-90s. His preferred terrain, however, was in the 20th district where he became known in the graffiti scene for his specialization of painting characters. Graduate of the Ecole Nationale des Arts Décoratifs, he published alongside Gautier Bischoff in 2000 the book Kapital, which to this day remains one the best-selling books about French graffiti. Together, they founded Wasted Talent in 2004, a publishing house that specializes in monographs of urban artists. Before becoming a full-tine artist, Seth worked in the creative industries: advertising, cartoons, comics. He painted in the street for his own pleasure. Starting from 2003, he went on a trip around the world to exchange with artists from different cultures, and to open up to new ways of living and painting in urban areas. This experience culminated in the book Globe Painter published in 2007 following with the documentary series Les Nouveaux Explorateurs produced and broadcast by Canal+ where Seth proposed to discover a country through the prism of its urban arts. For 5 years, he took a part in travelling to 15 destinations full of meaning. During the course of his artistic explorations, Seth developed his distinct painting style, working often with the theme of childhood. Using the wall as a blank page, Seth relies on one hand the individual or collective imagination – local gods, myths, or tales. The child becomes a spokesperson, a messenger of his investigations. He puts into play his image of innocence, and places his character in difficult social, political and geographical contexts. An approach that often has a dual meaning yet is never cynical; an urban painting that is engaged in alerting on the state of the world as a means to advance it.
SMOK4. SMOKSMOK is an artist born in Antwerp, Belgium (20/11/1972). In 1986 he started expressing himself on the streets with graffiti. Although SMOK's first love is called graffiti, his current works will probably be called ‘street art’. SMOK loves to paint with spray cans and is not afraid to use other media. His goal is to make people smile or think about nature, the responsibilities of the viewer and social awareness "I shake cans, clean brushes and paint on walls…"
JDL5. JDLJudith de Leeuw, also known as JDL street art, creates large- scale murals worldwide in order to draft attention to social issues. In a period of 6 years she managed to travel and work over 41 countries, including big parts of Europe, Asia and the United states. In 2021, JDL’s work was sold for a record of 2,9 million in cryptocurrency of which she donated one million to charity.
🏆 Nomination: Best Of 2022
Kitsune Jolene6. Kitsune JoleneKitsune Jolene (Jolien De Waele, 1992) is an urban and fine artist based in Ghent, Belgium. Her work portrays mostly humans and animals in vibrant hues. Characterised by the emotionally loaded and dreamy feeling to them, there’s usually subtle nods to the occult or mythologies to look out for.
🏆 Nomination: Best Of 2022
Kato7. KatoThe artist Fabián Bravo, known artistically as Kato, began his beginnings in the world of graffiti in 1999. After a laborious career of effort and work, Kato has left his murals throughout almost all of Spain. He likes to explore different styles of painting, mixing realism with abstract painting, geometric shapes, nature and bright colors. Kato has carried a phrase with him since he began painting: Every dream is worked with effort, every effort has its reward. 🏆5th place for best mural in the world 2023
Slim safont8. Slim safontNil Safont, born in Berga (Barcelona) in 1995 and graduated in Fine Arts from the University of Barcelona. At the age of 12, he instinctively began to delve into the universe of urban art and painting. His name is present, both nationally and internationally, in the sector's panorama since 2017. He is co-founder and member of @malpais.malpais, a polyhedral OFF SPACE focused on artistic production with a great exhibition space and annual programming in Barcelona. His work and his pictorial research represent the constant search for a personal and representative view of the social aspects that he considers significant around him, through a figurative, realistic pictorial language and neo-impressionist character. Muralist and painter, mainly interested in urban art and interventions in public space, his works are large-format paintings that use the walls of the streets as canvases. He works on issues closely linked to the different everyday life that he discovers in each social context where he has to work and is interested in a visual language that can raise awareness. The main themes of his work and his research through painting and photography, revolve around education, indoctrination and human behavior and its relationship with the figures of power around him. Apart from the creation of murals and his participation in various muralism projects internationally, his work study has involved him to be part of other artistic circuits such as exhibitions or shows, both with art galleries as well as more alternative exhibition spaces.
🏆 Nomination: Best Of 2022
TUZQ9. TUZQ
🏆 Nomination: Best Of 2022
Gijs Vanhee10. Gijs VanheeGijs Vanhee, born in 1982 and based in Mechelen, Belgium, has a background in illustration and a passion for drawing and graffiti since childhood. Since 2016, he has focused on telling a coherent story throughout his body of work that spreads across various mediums, including paper, canvas, print, digital art, and mural paintings. Vanhee's narrative drawings often feature humans with bird heads, which he calls his "freebirds." These characters represent the idea of humans being free in their heads through imagination and reflect Vanhee's search for freedom and balance between nature and society. His works invite viewers to take the time to stop and look around, search for stories or questions about humans, and reflect on how we've drifted away from who we are. Vanhee's drawings have a recognizable style, often in black and white or with limited use of color. He uses elements and textures present in murals to create his work, and he often draws inspiration from his travels and local stories to fill in the details. The artist draws inspiration from nature, travel, surf and skate culture, graphic novelists, and other artists. Vanhee strives to keep his work honest by maintaining a sketchy feeling. His freebirds act as protagonists, taking viewers on a journey through his story. Vanhee's oeuvre is not bound by murals but continues through various mediums, allowing his freebirds to come to life in a story that forms a coherent whole. He creates art that is visible and enjoyable to a broad audience.

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