100 Times Street Artists Got Creative

August 30, 2026

By Vidar

One idea can change the whole place.

Across these 100 photographs, artists bend walls, work with trees, turn street furniture into jokes and create sculptures people can step into.

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🐸 Kermit the Frog — By JAMIE HEF in Brooklyn, New York, USA 🇺🇸

JAMIE HEF depicted Kermit as a graffiti artist at Wilson and Myrtle Avenues in Brooklyn. Spray cans float around him while a blue milk crate fills the background. Photo by John Dominé.

More: See JAMIE HEF’s Kermit Mural in Brooklyn

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🏖️ “Here Yesterday” — By John Pugh in Hermosa Beach, California, USA 🇺🇸

John Pugh painted “Here Yesterday” on the Bijou Theater Building at 1223 Hermosa Avenue. Commissioned in 2021, the trompe-l’œil cutaway recalls the former Surf and Sand Club, also known as the Biltmore Hotel.

More: Step Inside John Pugh’s “Here Yesterday”

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🐣 “Hungry for Love” — By Sour in Tempe, Arizona, USA 🇺🇸

Two red nestlings crane their open beaks toward a dripping black heart high above them. Sour placed the painted nest low on the wall so the birds’ upward gaze leads directly to the heart.

More: See All 6 Photos of Sour’s “Hungry for Love”

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🎨 “Eve” — By AG PNT in Eden, North Carolina, USA 🇺🇸

AG PNT painted “Eve” at 220 W Kings Hwy for Kotis Street Art’s Graffiti of Eden. The figure is filled with graffiti tags drawn from the artist’s archive and public submissions.

More: Meet AG PNT’s Graffiti-Filled “Eve”

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🌍 Holding Up the World — By Darion Fleming in Brooklyn, New York, USA 🇺🇸

Darion Fleming’s mural fills the tall central façade at 108 St Edwards Street. A schoolchild steadies a stack of books topped by a globe, teddy bear, graduation cap and pigeon.

More: Street Art for Book Lovers (14 Photos)

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🔨 “Hammer Boy” — By Banksy in New York City, New York, USA 🇺🇸

Banksy painted “Hammer Boy” on West 79th Street, just east of Broadway, on 20 October 2013. The child’s hammer turns a real fire connection into the bell target of a carnival high-striker game.

More: See Banksy’s “Hammer Boy” in New York

🌺 “Together We Bloom” — By Yanoe x Zoueh in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, USA 🇺🇸

Yanoe x Zoueh painted “Together We Bloom” on the Five Seasons Parking Ramp at 159 4th St SE. Joined hands and native Iowa flowers climb the tower; the artists said the image is about diversity and a community growing together.

More: See “Together We Bloom” Tower Over Cedar Rapids

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🕰️ “Falling Clock” — By Daniel Arsham in Los Angeles, California, USA 🇺🇸

Daniel Arsham’s 2011 “Falling Clock” is a wall-mounted installation made from a clock, fiberglass, paint and joint compound. Its stretched surface makes solid architecture appear to slump under the clock’s weight.

More: See Daniel Arsham’s “Falling Clock” in Los Angeles

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🚪 “Virtual Entrance” — By ASTRO in Calais, France 🇫🇷

ASTRO painted “Virtual Entrance” in Calais in 2024. Concentric purple, pink and blue forms turn the flat end wall into an apparently deep passage through the building.

More: Step Into ASTRO’s “Virtual Entrance”

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🍭 “Robot Lolly Pop” — By Tom Bob in New York City, New York, USA 🇺🇸

Tom Bob turned an air-conditioning unit and its pipes into a wide-eyed robot holding an oversized lollipop. The existing metalwork supplies most of the body while painted shapes complete the character.

More: See 33 Street Art Ideas by Tom Bob

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🧱 “Fossil” — By Pejac in Brooklyn, New York City, USA 🇺🇸

Pejac placed “Fossil” in the brickwork at 27 Scott Avenue in Bushwick. The sparse intervention makes the wall appear to preserve the memory of a tree inside its masonry.

More: See Pejac’s “Fossil” Hidden in a Brooklyn Wall

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🐉 Shenron — By Scaf Oner in Roubaix, France 🇫🇷

Scaf Oner wrapped Shenron from Dragon Ball Z around a brick building at 27 Rue de l’Épeule in Roubaix. Painted fractures, deep shadows and the real corner make the dragon appear to break through several planes at once.

More: See 26 3D Illusions by SCAF

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🫙 Sluggo in a Jar — By David Zinn in Michigan, USA 🇺🇸

David Zinn turns a real manhole cover into the lid of a giant chalk jar, with Sluggo floating inside. In the artist’s own caption, Sluggo’s eyes double as flotation devices.

More: Happy Art by David Zinn (16 Photos)

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🚸 3D Zebra Crossing — By Vegamálun GÍH with Ralf Trylla in Ísafjörður, Iceland 🇮🇸

Ísafjörður environmental commissioner Ralf Trylla proposed the road-safety experiment, and local marking company Vegamálun GÍH developed the forced-perspective design. The flat white bars appear to float from the intended approach, giving drivers a visual cue to slow down.

More: See Iceland’s Floating 3D Zebra Crossing

💭 Calvin and Hobbes — By an Unknown Artist in Portland, Oregon, USA 🇺🇸

An unknown artist’s wheat-paste poster, photographed near SE 7th Avenue and Salmon Street, shows an adult Calvin walking to work while remembering a wagon ride with Hobbes. The briefcase and thought bubble turn a familiar childhood scene into a quiet Portland street story.

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🔑 “Suspended in Bloom” — By Naomi Haverland in Kissimmee, Florida, USA 🇺🇸

Unveiled on Earth Day 2026 for Osceola Arts’ ARTisNOW collection, “Suspended in Bloom” centers on a floating fish encased in a wooden barrel form and suspended by chains, with water lilies, cattails and a golden key. It fills the façade of Mosaic at Lake Toho, 110 Lakeview Drive.

More: See Naomi Haverland’s 3D Murals

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✏️ “Colour Pencils” — By Jonna Pohjalainen at Pedvāle Art Park near Sabile, Latvia 🇱🇻

Pohjalainen created “Colour Pencils” at Pedvāle in 2006, carving local gray aspen trunks and painting their sharpened ends. Installed outdoors near Sabile, the sculpture lets weather and changing light become part of the work.

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🪞 Self-Painting Angel — By Irony in Bristol, England, UK 🇬🇧

Irony painted a winged woman holding a spray can to her own arm, with black paint running down the figure. The gesture turns the mural into an act of self-painting.

More: See Irony’s Self-Painting Angel in Bristol

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🌀 “OzerSpace” — By 3D Joe & Max in Chicago, Illinois, USA 🇺🇸

3D Joe & Max turn flat pavement into an OzerSpace-branded vortex, with a glowing core, floating pizza slices and a doorway apparently deep below the street. The studio specializes in hand-painted anamorphic works designed to resolve from one viewpoint.

More: See 8 3D Illusions by Joe & Max

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🦍 “Lazy but happy gorilla” — By SMOK in Rainbow, California, USA 🇺🇸

SMOK fitted a reclining gorilla across the triangular gable of a home in Rainbow, California. The roofline contains the animal’s head while real succulents supply the foreground.

More: See 10 Murals by SMOK

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🏘️ Stacked Homes Façade — By Francisco Fonseca in Ôlas, Portugal 🇵🇹

Francisco Fonseca painted this stacked village at R. da Lameira 15 in Ôlas for the Douro Street Art Festival in October 2025. The bright façades compress a hillside settlement into one tall wall.

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🐭 “The Elopement” — By David Zinn in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA 🇺🇸

Zinn’s official page dates “The Elopement” to 1 January 2024 in Ann Arbor and records chalk, charcoal and a real strand of ivy as its materials. The living vine turns a tiny meeting into an adventurous escape route.

More: Happy Art by David Zinn (10 Photos)

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🦈 Matawan Shark Mural — By Tattoo Bob in Matawan, New Jersey, USA 🇺🇸

Tattoo Bob painted this unsanctioned shark around an opening of the NJ Transit bridge over Matawan Creek, visible from Aberdeen Road. The red “1916” refers to the fatal local shark attacks, while the image recalls the Jaws book cover.

More: See the Street Art Inspired by New Jersey’s 1916 Shark Attacks

🌺 Untitled Bougainvillea Portrait of Egypt Sarai — By Fábio Gomes Trindade in Trindade, Goiás, Brazil 🇧🇷

Fábio Gomes Trindade placed this portrait beneath a flowering tree on Rua 6 in Conjunto Arco-Íris, Trindade, so the living branches complete the hair. A follow-up post says the portrait was inspired by Egypt Sarai.

More: See 8 Tree-Hair Murals by Fábio Gomes Trindade

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🧱 Dispatchwork — A Worldwide Project by Jan Vormann 🌍

Jan Vormann’s Dispatchwork project fills damaged architecture with brightly colored plastic construction bricks. The idea has spread through public contributions around the world, turning broken masonry into small, colorful mosaics.

More: See 12 Dispatchwork Repairs Around the World

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🪨 Obelix — By Frankey in Amsterdam, Netherlands 🇳🇱

Frankey tucked a small three-dimensional Obelix beneath a real concrete ledge in Amsterdam. The placement makes the comic character look as if he is carrying part of the building above him.

More: See Frankey Make Obelix Carry a Real Building

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💦 “Appearing Rooms” — By Jeppe Hein in London, UK 🇬🇧

At the Southbank Centre’s Riverside Terrace, programmed jets repeatedly form and dissolve walk-in rooms. Hein’s 2.3-meter water walls switch through new configurations every ten seconds, inviting visitors to step inside the architecture.

More: 15 Times the Street Became a Place to Play

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🗽 Lady Liberty’s Lighter — With the Statue of Liberty in New York City, USA 🇺🇸

Forced perspective makes the distant torch of “Liberty Enlightening the World” look like a giant lighter. Bartholdi’s statue has stood on Liberty Island in New York Harbor since its dedication in 1886.

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🛡️ “Uderzo in His Cosmos” — Designed by François Boucq and Painted by SLMOON Art&Décoration in Angoulême, France 🇫🇷

“Uderzo in His Cosmos” was painted in 2021 by SLMOON Art&Décoration from an original drawing by François Boucq. The tribute to Astérix co-creator Albert Uderzo fills the gable at 10 Boulevard Louis Pasteur with characters emerging from his drawing table.

More: See the Full Asterix and Obelix Tribute (4 Photos)

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🐍 The Rocksnake Challenge — By Community Participants in Lake Elsinore, California, USA 🇺🇸

Along the Lake Elsinore Levee Trail, a sign invites walkers to extend a community rock snake one painted stone at a time. A trail guide documented it growing during 2020, with messages of hope, kindness and love mixed through the line.

More: Cute Signs (10 Photos)

😹 Happy Cats — By Kostiantyn Skrytutskyi in Kyiv, Ukraine 🇺🇦

At Landscape Alley, Skrytutskyi’s toothy mosaic cats turn a walkway into part sculpture park, part playground. He created the children’s park in 2009, adding the long centipede-cat and animal-shaped benches, fountains and other mosaic figures.

More: Funny Sculptures With a Clever Twist (12 Photos)

💗 “HARDCORE” — By Falko Fantastic in Cape Town, South Africa 🇿🇦

Falko Fantastic painted a kneeling pink figure whose head disappears into a real bougainvillea bush in Cape Town. The living flowers complete the otherwise headless pose.

More: See Falko Fantastic’s “HARDCORE” From Every Angle

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🐎 “The Horse” — By Beach4Art at Sandymere Beach, North Devon, UK 🇬🇧

Beach4Art built “The Horse” at Sandymere Beach on 25 April 2023. The 2.4-by-2.2-meter pebble-and-driftwood work was inspired by George Stubbs’s racehorse painting Whistlejacket.

More: When Nature Becomes Art (24 Photos)

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🏛️ Leaning Tower of Pisa Pole — By an Unidentified Local Artist in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA 🇺🇸

This tiny Leaning Tower is painted on a real leaning parking pole at 5th and Gaskill Streets. Streets Dept traced it to the mid-1990s: the original painter was probably one of the women who ran the corner coffee shop, while neighborhood residents have quietly repainted it over the years.

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🌈 Xenofon Street Stairs — By Eva Radu in Bucharest, Romania 🇷🇴

In 2014 Eva Radu spent seven days painting Bucharest landmarks across the steps of Xenofon Street for Initiative’s “Bucharest on Scale” project. Each section of the staircase became a painted view of the city’s architecture.

More: See Eva Radu’s Xenofon Street Stairs

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🌹 Child Offering a Rose — By Víctor García Repo & Nerea Bernal in San Lorenzo de la Parrilla, Spain 🇪🇸

A child reaches a rose toward the viewer through carefully painted shadows and forced perspective. Víctor García and Nerea Bernal created the interactive mural over six working days at Calle Calvario 23, inviting people to step into the illusion for a photograph.

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🐊 Alligator Drain — By David Zinn in the USA 🇺🇸

David Zinn incorporates a square storm-drain grate into the back of a purple chalk alligator. As the artist explains, these temporary creatures are made entirely from chalk, charcoal and found objects.

More: See 19 Chalk Drawings by David Zinn

♻️ “The Bare Necessities” — By TRUST. iCON in Thamesmead, London, UK 🇬🇧

TRUST. iCON’s April 2023 mural shows Mowgli holding a plastic bottle in a concrete jungle. The title turns The Jungle Book song into a pointed comment on plastic pollution.

More: See TRUST. iCON’s “The Bare Necessities”

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🌿 “Sirona” — By WD in Wiesbaden, Germany 🇩🇪

Painted for Meeting of Styles in 2023, “Sirona” spreads one anamorphic image across six separate walls. WD based the work on the Celtic goddess of healing springs, while the staircase lets visitors walk directly through the illusion at Schützenhofstraße 4.

More: See 8 Murals by WD

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🧩 Market Mosaic — By Ememem in Ankara, Türkiye 🇹🇷

This is one of five “flacking” installations Ememem created across Ankara with the Institut français and Çankaya Municipality. He fitted recycled ceramic, glass and other fragments into damaged pavement, turning the repair itself into the design.

More: See How Ememem Repairs Streets

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📚 Book-Shaped Benches — Made by OverHertz in Burgas, Bulgaria 🇧🇬

These fiberglass seats reproduce open books, with Bulgarian poetry and illustrations printed across the “pages.” Bulgarian National Television documented the benches in central Burgas and at the Sea Station, while OverHertz lists them as its custom-made Book Benches.

More: When Books Become Public Art (14 Photos)

💦 Merlion Hydration — With the Merlion Designed by Kwan Sai Kheong and Sculpted by Lim Nang Seng in Singapore 🇸🇬

A visitor lines up with the water stream from Singapore’s 8.6-meter Merlion, turning the landmark into a perfectly timed drinking fountain. Designed by Kwan Sai Kheong and built by sculptor Lim Nang Seng, it was unveiled in 1972 and now stands at Merlion Park.

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🖼️ “The Earth Without Art Is Just Eh” — Digital Remix of Street Art by Levalet in Paris, France 🇫🇷

This is not a second physical intervention on the Paris wall. The phrase “The Earth Without Art Is Just Eh” was added digitally to a photograph of Levalet’s site-specific paste-up; the editor has not been identified.

More: Explore More of Levalet’s Paris Street Art

🍃 “Musco” — By Jon Foreman in Minwear Woods, Pembrokeshire, Wales, UK 🇬🇧

Foreman created “Musco” in Minwear Woods in 2025, arranging moss into a precise temporary pattern. He says he takes care to leave enough material behind for the moss to regrow.

More: See 10 Forest Sculptures by Jon Foreman

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🟦 “Viviane hésite” — By Seth Globepainter in La Butte-aux-Cailles, Paris, France 🇫🇷

Seth painted “Viviane hésite” in La Butte-aux-Cailles for Lezarts de la Bièvre in June 2018. A real hopscotch grid leads to the painted child, whose head and raised foot vanish into the wall while her shoes tumble behind.

More: See 34 Murals by Seth

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🐈 Cosmic Cat Mural — By Sagie in Jönköping, Sweden 🇸🇪

Sagie painted a curled cat across a long wall for Södra Munksjön and ArtPlatform in a project curated by Kollektivet Livet. Violet-blue fur, stars and nebulae turn the wall into a cosmic resting place.

More: Meet Sagie’s Giant “Star Cat”

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🤝 “See no color” — By Rosalie de Graaf and Team RoosArt in Zwolle, Netherlands 🇳🇱

Rosalie de Graaf and Team RoosArt spent a month painting the 32-meter mural “See no color” in Zwolle’s multicultural Holtenbroek neighborhood. Each of the four children is linked to a different color, and those colors mix as they play.

More: See “See no color” From Street Level (5 Photos)

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👀 Googly Eyes on “Orb I” — Sculpture by Brandon Zebold in Bend, Oregon, USA 🇺🇸

Someone temporarily gave Brandon Zebold’s 2005 steel sculpture Orb I a pair of oversized googly eyes. The six-foot sphere stands in the roundabout at Mt. Washington Drive and Skyliners Road; the person who added these eyes has not been identified.

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🐟 Peeling-Wall Fish — By CAL, Dessins & Co in Lyon, France 🇫🇷

A patch of exposed brown render supplies the fish’s body; a few painted lines add its eye, mouth, fin and tail, turning wall damage into the picture.

More: See 6 Street Interventions by CAL

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🌸 Flower Hair — By Robson Melancia in Dois Córregos, Brazil 🇧🇷

Robson Melancia places the portrait beside real blossoms so the living plant supplies an extravagant hairstyle.

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🧩 Flacking — By Ememem in Lyon, France 🇫🇷

On the artist’s official site, Ememem explains that “flacking” comes from the French word flaque, or puddle: custom mosaics turn damaged pavement into repair and ornament at once.

More: See How Ememem Repairs Streets

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📦 Giant Cardboard Box Cat House — By Nego in Torrellas, Zaragoza, Spain 🇪🇸

Nego transformed an entire Torrellas house into a cardboard box occupied by a colossal cat. Doors, windows and the roofline all disappear into the packaging illusion.

More: See the House Nego Turned Into a Giant Cat Box

🪵 Tunnel Bench — By AllesWirdGut in Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg 🇱🇺

This wood-lined concrete seat is part of AllesWirdGut’s redevelopment of a former steelworks in Belval, Esch-sur-Alzette, where concrete, wood and untreated steel carry the site’s industrial character forward.

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🌀 “Fluidform” — By Jon Foreman in Pensarn, Wales, UK 🇬🇧

Foreman identifies Fluidform as a 2025 work created at Pensarn: a stone circle whose arrangement produces the strange warping effect visible from above.

More: See 12 Stone Works by Jon Foreman

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🐸 The Blue Frog — By Odeith in Portugal 🇵🇹

Odeith uses the ruined room’s corners, shadows, and viewing angle to make a huge blue frog occupy space that is not really there.

More: See 10 3D Illusions by Odeith

🌼 The Painted Chapel — By Anežka Kašpárková in Louka, Czech Republic 🇨🇿

Czech Television documented Kašpárková repainting Louka’s chapel with blue-and-white Horňácko ornaments every two years; she cared for the decoration for five decades before her niece Marie Jagošová continued the tradition.

More: Meet the Woman Who Painted Louka’s Chapel

🦓 Zebra and Penguins — By Cee Pil in Ghent, Belgium 🇧🇪

Cee Pil merged a striped zebra with a flock of penguins inside one high-contrast animal silhouette. The penguins emerge from the zebra’s body without breaking the shared black-and-white pattern.

More: See Cee Pil’s Zebra Turn Into Penguins

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🦌 “Big Ears” — By Joe Halko, with Googly Eyes by Jeff Keith, in Bend, Oregon, USA 🇺🇸

Joe Halko’s 2001 bronze Big Ears became part of Bend’s viral googly-eye episode when local resident Jeff Keith said he had attached the temporary eyes to the deer family.

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🐦 “Avocette élégante” — By VYRÜS in Oye-Plage, France 🇫🇷

VYRÜS identifies this 2025 Oye-Plage work as Avocette élégante, the French name for a pied avocet; the wall’s placement lets the painted bird continue into a real reflection below.

More: Street Art You Can’t Ignore When You Walk By (12 Photos)

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🚲 “Street Selling” — By MAYE in Calais, France 🇫🇷

MAYE fills an elongated street vendor and bicycle with warm colors and fine detail. Plants, objects and dense linework packed around the rider reward a closer look.

More: See MAYE’s Intricate “Street Selling” Mural

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🧽 SpongeBob on the Wall — By Pappas Pärlor in Borås, Sweden 🇸🇪

Pappas Pärlor places the bead-built character exactly where the wall’s edge and texture can extend the expression.

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☕ “R9 Wall of Love” — By Ilyn Artwork at R9 Café in Taipei, Taiwan 🇹🇼

Ilyn Artwork calls the three-story mural R9 Wall of Love. Painted balconies, figures, birds, drinks and music turn the café façade into a stack of small scenes made for visitors to record warm memories of love.

More: See “R9 Wall of Love” From Every Angle (4 Photos)

☀️ “Rayon de Soleil” (“Ray of Sunshine”) — By Federico Zenobi in Cacciano, Italy 🇮🇹

Local coverage identifies the child as Emma, painted by Federico Zenobi on a swing facing Cacciano’s landscape. The 2023 mural’s documented title is Rayon de Soleil, or “ray of sunshine.”

More: See All 4 Photos of Federico Zenobi’s “Ray of Sunshine”

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🦊 Sleeping Fox — By MALIK in Kölliken, Switzerland 🇨🇭

MALIK lets the curled fox settle into the building’s shape, turning a plain wall into a quiet place to nap.

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🎵 Musical Crosswalk Sign — By Etisk Vandalism in Landskrona, Sweden 🇸🇪

Etisk Vandalism turns the crossing stripes inside a pedestrian sign into piano keys that trail into musical notes, then adds a small figure above.

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🐦 “Female Kookaburra and Scarlet O’Hara Bougainvillea” — By Dan Bianco in Hamilton, New South Wales, Australia 🇦🇺

In his post for the finished project, Dan Bianco identifies the bird as a female kookaburra perched above Scarlet O’Hara bougainvillea on Lindsay Street; the living plant continues the painted flowers below the wall.

More: See Dan Bianco’s Kookaburra and Living Flowers

🐦 Hummingbird Bloom — By Safe in Moyobamba, Peru 🇵🇪

Safe created the bird-and-flower wall for the 2023 Tierra Q’Pinta Fiesta Amazónica in Moyobamba, linking the hovering hummingbird and bloom across the façade.

More: See Safe’s Hummingbird Mural (6 Photos)

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🐈 The Giant Escapee — By Mr Meana in Fencehouses, England, UK 🇬🇧

Mr Meana painted the giant ginger kitten for SimplyCats Vet Clinic on Front Street in Fencehouses. In the artist’s finished-work post, he says the cat-only practice asked for a kitten escaping from the building and that he completed it in one day.

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🐕 “The Hound of Ulster” — By Mister Copy in Dundalk, Ireland 🇮🇪

Painted for SEEK Dundalk, The Hound of Ulster shows the young Setanta and Culann’s guard dog—the encounter that gives the hero his later name, Cú Chulainn. The mural stands on Church Street.

More: Meet Mister Copy’s “Hound of Ulster”

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🎒 Cartoon School Façade — By Jace Gouzou, CEET Fouad & ADOR in Les Mureaux, France 🇫🇷

Jace identifies the wall as a collaboration with CEET Fouad and ADOR at École Jules Ferry. Their recurring characters turn the school frontage into a crowded cartoon world that uses the real doors and windows as part of the action.

More: See the Cartoon School Façade (3 Photos)

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🪞 Izzy With Izzy — By Andy “Dice” Davies in Nailsworth, England, UK 🇬🇧

This small stencil is a portrait of Davies’s daughter Izzy. In an interview with Inspiring City, he says it was his first street stencil, painted on a roadside corner in Nailsworth; the image later went viral online.

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🪜 “I’m Going to Check Downstairs” — By JW17 in Prague, Czech Republic 🇨🇿

JW17 painted a woman lowering herself through a broken interior as if the Prague wall were a vertical stage. Broken plaster, interior beams and steep perspective make the façade read like a tall room.

More: See JW17 Turn a Ruined Wall Into a Vertical Room

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👐 “In Your Hands” — By Adrien Martinetti in Ajaccio, France 🇫🇷

Martinetti’s 2022 work In Your Hands was imagined with students from Collège et Lycée Saint-Paul in Ajaccio. The living trunk becomes the object held between the mural’s enormous painted hands.

More: See “In Your Hands” Grow From the Wall

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🚗 “Road to Nowhere V” — By Juandres Vera in Fort Pienc, Barcelona, Spain 🇪🇸

In Road to Nowhere V, Vera opens an anamorphic portal onto a future where wild vegetation reclaims the city around an abandoned car. The 2024 mural stands at 798 Gran Via de les Corts Catalanes in Fort Pienc.

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🕸️ Napoleon III–Era Embroidery Pattern — By NeSpoon in Yffiniac, France 🇫🇷

NeSpoon based this 2022 mural on an embroidery pattern from the Napoleon III period, joining geometric forms with flowers across the façade. The work covers the gable at 43 Rue du Général de Gaulle.

More: See NeSpoon Cover a Building in a Historic Breton Pattern

💧 “Gotas de vida” (“Drops of Life”) — By KATO in Ronda, Spain 🇪🇸

Fabián Bravo Guerrero, known as KATO, created “Gotas de vida” as part of a five-mural renewal project in Ronda’s Las Sindicales neighborhood. A local street-art directory dates it to May 2023 and places it at 1 Calle Pujerra.

More: See 7 Murals by KATO

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❤️ “Love In Full Bloom – Cherry Blossom Geisha” — By TABBY in Osaka, Japan 🇯🇵

“Love In Full Bloom – Cherry Blossom Geisha” is TABBY’s 2024 intervention for Art Osaka. It turns a round street sign into a girl beneath falling heart-shaped petals at 2 Chome-8 Kitakagaya.

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🐝 “The Bird and the Bee” — By Falko Fantastic in Praia, Cape Verde 🇨🇻

Falko Fantastic painted a child reaching toward a bird and bee across a broken wall in Praia. Breaks in the masonry and nearby plants remain visible as active parts of the finished scene.

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🎣 “The Fisher Girl” — By Fabian “BANE” Florin in Mons, Belgium 🇧🇪

“The Fisher Girl”, created for Mons’ L’Art Habite la Ville public-art program in 2023, shows a young woman mending a fishing net inside a painted window. Fabian “BANE” Florin built the trompe-l’œil across the house at 12 Avenue de Cuesmes.

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🐇 Peek-a-Boo Rabbit — By Adeline Yvetot in Paris, France 🇫🇷

Adeline Yvetot tucks the rabbit into the wall so the architecture becomes its hiding place.

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🚕 Belfast Black Taxi Mural — By Dan Kitchener in Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK 🇬🇧

Dan Kitchener painted the 35-by-25-foot mural freehand in April 2021 at Enfield Street and Woodvale Road. A Belfast black cab moves through one of his rain-soaked neon night scenes.

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🦓 Zebra Stripes — By Banksy in Timbuktu, Mali 🇲🇱

Painted in Timbuktu in 2008, the stencil shows a woman hanging black-and-white stripes on a clothesline beside an animal partly painted as a zebra.

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⛵ “Le Bateau Ivre” — By Claire Daliers in Molenbeek, Brussels, Belgium 🇧🇪

“Le Bateau Ivre” covers roughly 400 square meters across three façades and was painted by Claire Daliers with a team of five artists. The ship wraps the building at 40 Quai des Charbonnages.

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♻️ “Adri Creciclando” (“Adri Growing Up”) — By Dadospuntocero in Lugones, Asturias, Spain 🇪🇸

“Adri Creciclando” (“Adri Growing Up”) is Dadospuntocero’s 2020 mural about teaching children to turn waste into new life. The 15-meter-high work spans the buildings at 12–14 Calle de Antonio Machado.

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🏛️ “Venus, Goddess of Love, Prepares to Take a Bath” — By Ozmo in Heerlen, Netherlands 🇳🇱

Created for the national Museum Murals project, Ozmo’s “Venus, Goddess of Love, Prepares to Take a Bath” draws on Heerlen’s Roman bathhouse history. The marble-like figure pours water across the wall at 7 Coriovallumstraat, beside the city’s Roman Museum.

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🥛 “The Milkmaid” — By Oakoak in Saint-Étienne, France 🇫🇷

Oakoak’s “The Milkmaid” intervention places Vermeer’s figure above a real drainpipe in Saint-Étienne, making the city supply the stream from her jug.

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👁️ “OUTSIGHT” — By Jorge Rodríguez-Gerada in Laon, France 🇫🇷

“OUTSIGHT” portrays the artist’s son Alén looking through a play-button symbol. Painted for Festival Arts Urbains 2022, its bands of skin tones address the universal effects of social media, algorithms and viral video on children encountering the world through screens.

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🐯 Pouncing Tiger — By Sweo & Nikita in El Berrón, Spain 🇪🇸

Sweo and Nikita created this untitled 3D tiger as the third MURALIA 2025 intervention. The anamorphic jungle cat covers the Cuatro Vías building at 2 Avenida Langreo and resolves correctly only from a precise viewpoint.

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🏠 “Preta Solar” — By Veracidade in São Paulo, Brazil 🇧🇷

Veracidade (Mauro Neri) calls the mural “Preta Solar” and writes that it brings the quebrada—the peripheral neighborhood—to the city center. Painted for the Museu da Cidade de São Paulo, it covers the side of the Solar da Marquesa de Santos.

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🐅 La Maison M Tiger — By Kalouf in Lyon, France 🇫🇷

Kalouf painted the giant tiger for La Maison M in 2022, with help from Crounion2Pain. The venue calls the tiger its emblem; the pink-and-teal face fills the façade at 21 Place Gabriel Rambaud.

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🔭 A Little Man in the Brick Wall — By Ivan Sery in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia 🇷🇺

Ivan Sery installs a tiny room and figure inside a gap in the brickwork, turning missing masonry into a miniature diorama.

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🌊 “The Wave Is Coming” — By Shozy in Balashikha, Russia 🇷🇺

Shozy calls this 14-story illusion “The Wave Is Coming”, painted for the Urban Morphogenesis festival. Distorted windows, bent panel seams and glitching floors break apart the façade at 7 Novaya Street.

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🎸 “Encontro no Camiño” — By David Barrera in Fene, Spain 🇪🇸

“Encontro no Camiño” shows a young pilgrim playing guitar while a boy and his dog meet her gaze; the scallop shell at her neck marks the Camino de Santiago. David Barrera painted it for the 2025 Perla Mural Fest at 11 Rúa Paralela a San Estevo.

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💃 Dancing Fence — By Oakoak in France 🇫🇷

Two bent fence bars become a dancing couple, with small painted faces completing the joke.

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🏖️ “La Plage” (“The Beach”) — By NEAN in Nîmes, France 🇫🇷

“La Plage,” added to Street Art Cities by the artist, places a child on a swing beneath a vast dark tree against a golden sky. NEAN painted it for Expo de Ouf 11 in 2023 at 15 Rue Vaissette.

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🎸 “Chuck Berry” — By SUNRA in Montpellier, France 🇫🇷

“Chuck Berry” turns the guitarist’s music into a stream of SUNRA’s signature red hearts. The small intervention was documented at 10 Rue du Petit Saint-Jean; Street Art Cities now marks it as removed.

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🎣 Anglerfish Trap — By SKURK in Bergen, Norway 🇳🇴

Given a wall with an exterior staircase and lamps, SKURK turned the stairs into the anglerfish’s mouth and one lamp into its glowing lure. In the artist’s post from Rå School, he wrote that the lamps “asked for some mean incorporation” and thanked Bergen’s BART collective for the wall.

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🌀 “Space and Time” — By Eduardo Relero in Bochum, Germany 🇩🇪

“Space and Time” is Eduardo Relero’s anamorphic pavement painting in Bochum, made for Stadtportal Bochum. Its painted figures, bed and oversized clocks resolve into three dimensions only from the intended viewpoint.

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