Chanoir

Chanoir, a.k.a. Alberto Vejarano, is a contemporary French-Colombian street artist born in 1976 in Bogota.[1]

Cha in Barcelona

His nickname is a reference to a poster of the famous Parisian cabaret Le Chat Noir, by Théophile Steinlen.

Expositions

• 2011 - Les chats qui taguent, Musée en Herbe, Paris[2]
• 2014 - Streets Hotel, Paris[3]
• 2018 - Nasty & Chanoir, La Baule, France[4]
• 2018 - Broken minds, clever hands, La Celle-Saint-Cloud, France[5]
• 2019 - Zoo XXL, Lyon, France [6]

Collaboration with brands

Amongst his most notable commercial work are the design of a collection for Cacharel at the Galeries Lafayette, phone cases for Samsung and a mural fresque for Disney store on the Champs-Élysées.[7]

Further reading

• Street Art: The Spray Files[8]
• Street Logos, Tristan Manco, Thames & Hudson, 2004, ISBN 0-500-28469-5

External links

• Website : chanoir.free.fr

Notes

1. "Chanoir". Artsper (in French). 2020-10-03.
2. "Musée en Herbe" (PDF). Musée en Herbe (in French). 2011-12-20.
3. "Chanoir, street artiste Franco-colombien". Strip Art (in French). 2018-04-22.
4. "Quand le street art rencontre le chic de L'Hermitage". Ouest France (in French). 2018-04-22.
5. "Le Street-art investit La Celle-Saint-Cloud". Le Parisien (in French). 2018-01-18.
6. "Vous êtes des animaux !". Lyon France (in French). January 2019.
7. "Chanoir, graffitis con gatos de colores que revolucionan las paredes en las calles de París". El Mundo (in Spanish). 2016-08-10.
8. Street Art: The Spray Files, HarperCollins, 2004, p.180