AEROSOL JEF

Aerosol Jef (often stylised AEROSOL JEF) is a French urban artist who has been active since the 2000s, known for his stencils and spray paintings combining pop iconography, portraiture and social commentary. Heir to the techniques of street art (stencilling, spray paint, paste-ups), he works on walls, hoardings and mobile supports, with a high-contrast palette and crisp outlines. His compositions bring together recognisable figures (media icons, anonymous faces, children) and incisive typography, playing on the ambivalence between visual seduction and a critique of consumer society, inequality and gender stereotypes.

His interventions unfold both in the public realm (murals, municipal commissions, street art festivals) and in the gallery, where he transposes his motifs onto canvas, metal or wood. He also works in thematic series, repeating and varying source images to test how signs are received in different urban contexts. A committed artist, he collaborates from time to time with local associations on participatory and educational projects, placing particular emphasis on passing on stencilling techniques and raising awareness of civic issues.

Standing in the lineage of French stencil art (Blek le Rat, Jef Aérosol) and political pop, AEROSOL JEF is distinguished by a clean line, bold contrasts and a direct visual rhetoric, striving for the broadest possible accessibility without relinquishing any of his critical edge.