Person Justin

Justin Person is a French-based artist whose studies in Graphic Design and Fine Arts serve as an influence for the artworks he creates both outdoors and indoors. His artistic practice is broad, often featuring familiar characters whose identity has been masked or blurred; our favorite childhood heroes, such as Popeye and Felix the Cat, stripped of color and painted in pitch black, as if they are now nothing more than mere shapes and stains of ink. Do they lose their identity once they face is wiped out? Are we still able to recognize them? They appear to have become a part of a larger concept created by Justin Person, one that has a lot more to do with social landscape we actually live in. At times, these characters are even referenced by motifs from classical art, once again evoking familiar scenery that we’re still not sure if we can identify.



Icons of Highbrow and Pop Culture at Urban Spree

The minimalist, yet structured artworks of Justin Person evoke his anarchic spirit towards hierarchies in general and in his artistic production. Drawing inspiration from both pop culture and highbrow, the artist creates mysterious, quite abstract characters that serve as the icons of many generations past and future, and that ooz...

2006-2010 Study Graphic design in Annecy, France.

2010-2011 Study Art at ESAAA in Annecy, France.

Solo show

"PINK SHOW"

7-17 july 2016
Urban Spree Galerie
Berlin, Germany


“ALL FOLKS !”

5 may-29 june 2013
Art à suivre, Les Palettes.
Annecy, France

“WHO IS WHO ?”

23 may-13 june 2013
OBS & GEMUSE.
Berlin, Germany


Group show

“Murs ouvert #8”
21 march - 29 march 2015
Le Lavo//matik
Paris, France

“ART IN HOUSE”
21 march - 15 april 2015
Rey promotion
Biarritz, France

“ACHROMATOPSIE”
5 march - 5 april 2015
Galerie Clémouchka
Lyon, France

“ART URBAIN collection Nicolas Laugero Lasserre”
6 april- 4 may 2014
Galerie à l’Ecu de France
Viroflay, France

“THE CIRCLE SHOW”
13 july- 2 august 2013
URBAN SPREE.
Berlin, Germany

“CHANGING PERSPECTIVE ”
14 june- 18 june 2013
DEAR FACTORY .
Berlin, Germany