Miss Van

Miss Van
Artwork by Miss Van on a wall of La Boqueria in Ciutat Vella, Barcelona
Born
Vanessa Alice

1973 (age 50–51)
Known forPoupées
StyleFeminine
MovementStreet art
Websitemissvan.com

Miss Van (born 1973 in Toulouse, France), also known as Vanessa Alice, is a graffiti and street artist.[1][2] Miss Van started painting on the street of Toulouse alongside Mademoiselle Kat at the age of 18. Today, she is now internationally known as a street and fine artist. Primarily, her work is marked by the use of unique characters, called poupées, or dolls.[3] Miss Van's work has appeared on streets internationally, although she also exhibits canvases in galleries across France, Europe and the United States.[1] Today, her work is characterized by both street art and fine art, blurring the lines between both worlds.[4]

Miss Van currently resides in Barcelona and has written and published several books with the publishing house Drago and coordinated several art shows across Europe.[5] She remains one of the most famous female street and graffiti artists in the world, recognized as one of the top figures in early 21st-century street art canon.[6]

  1. ^ a b "SWINDLE Magazine Interview with Miss Van". Archived from the original on 2011-05-18. Retrieved 2007-06-16.
  2. ^ "Miss Van's First Museum Show Opens in Malaga – artnet News". artnet News. 2016-06-24. Retrieved 2017-03-20.
  3. ^ Waclawek, Anna (2008). From graffiti to the street art movement : negotiating art worlds, urban spaces, and visual culture, c. 1970–2008 (phd). Concordia University, Phd Thesis.
  4. ^ Villarreal, Ignacio. "Miss Van's first show at a museum on view at the Centro de Arte Contemporáneo of Málaga". artdaily.com. Retrieved 2017-03-20.
  5. ^ The Dolls of Miss Van. Fornarina Fashion News @ CourtureCandy.com Archived 2007-12-16 at the Wayback Machine
  6. ^ Glaser, Katja (2015). "The 'Place to Be'for Street Art Nowadays is no Longer the Street, its the Internet" (PDF). Street Art and Urban Creativity Scientific Journal. 1 (2).