STEW

STeW is a French artist born in 1978, whose practice lies at the intersection of street art, digital creation, and Japanese printmaking.
Emerging from skate and graffiti culture, he developed an organic relationship with the urban space starting in the 1990s, approaching it as a territory of expression as much as one of resistance. Trained in graphic design, he gradually forged the concept of "infograffiti"—a hybrid practice in which the digital file precedes and fuels the physical gesture, with the stencil serving as a bridge between the two.
His work is characterized by a graphic rigor inherited from the printing arts, a sharp economy of color, and a constant dialogue with the aesthetic of ukiyo-e. Figures of samurai, geishas, and birds run through his work as revisited archetypes, inscribed in concrete as much as in pixels. His mural Le Héron Bleu (The Blue Heron), created in the 13th arrondissement of Paris, is an emblematic illustration of this approach: a figure from the Japanese imagination, translated into a monumental stencil, and given back to the street.
Active on the French urban scene for over twenty years, his work has crossed borders to take part in international contexts—festivals, group exhibitions, and residencies—confirming the universal reach of a body of work nourished by multiple cultures and firmly rooted in its time.

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