--- author: Jan Brennenstuhl categories: - Urban Art Recap cover: alt: Top 10 Urban Artists 2011 height: 800 src: https://www.urbanartcore.com/top-10-urban-artists-2011/roa-berlin-exhibition.jpg width: 1840 credit: '' date: '2011-12-29T17:11:22Z' description: 'Guess who’re the top 10 Urban Artists 2011! To recap the last 52 weeks, I wrote down some of the most influential and popular names from both, the street art and graffiti scene. ' tags: - JR - MadC - Roa - Aryz - Vhils title: Top 10 Urban Artists 2011 url: https://www.urbanartcore.com/top-10-urban-artists-2011/ --- # Top 10 Urban Artists 2011 After presenting the [five most popular Urbanartcore posts](/top-5-of-urban-artcore-2011/) in 2011, I will now honor this year’s top ten urban artists! Of course it’s difficult to do that. There’s a massive count of highly talented urban artists out there around the globe and I’m pretty sure either that there are also some great street or graffiti artists I haven’t heard about yet. Nevertheless I gave my best and wrote together some of the most influential and popular names from both, the street art and graffiti scene. Here we go: ## Roa Belgian urban artist **Roa** is one of the major players in the international urban art movement! Being famous for painting fantastic, detailed, grayscale murals of animals, he traveled the world in 2011, visiting for example [Mexico](/roa-in-mexico-mural-art/), [Berlin](/roa-exhibition-berlin-photos/) and [Perth](/roa-western-australia/). I’m pretty sure he is going to hit the streets around the globe also in 2012! ## Aryz Due to his unique, dreamy and sometimes crazy characters style and his highly trained skills in painting huge walls for example in [Italy](/aryz-huge-italy/), **Aryz** nowadays is one of the most well-known urban artists around the world, what lead him to several painting actions and exhibitions like his latest in [Barcelona](/aryz-hello-world-exhibition/)! Definitely a must to know... ![aryz hello world]() aryz hello world ## How & Nosm Also Spanish-born twins **How & Nosm** attracted attention in 2011 by painting countless, beautiful murals. One of the latest walls they painted is that [massive painting](/how-nosm-mural-los-angeles/) they created for *L.A. Freewalls*, brilliant! Keep them in mind - you will hear more from them in 2012, I’m sure. ![how nosm los angeles]() how nosm los angeles ## Da Mental Vaporz I’m a big fan of the French **Da Mental Vaporz** (DMV) crew for years now! Including some of the greatest European graffiti artists like **Dran**, **Bom-K**, **Sowat**, **Jaw**, **Blo** and others, the collective is in action throughout Europe, painting massive walls like here in [Brest](/da-mental-vaporz-mural-brest/) or [Massy](/da-mental-vaporz-graffiti-art/). Hope to see more from them next year... ![da mental vaporz mural]() da mental vaporz mural ## JR After his great success last year, winning the *2011 TED Prize*, French photographer and large-scale paste-up artist **JR** invested his popularity, connections and money to create new art projects like the [*Inside Out*](/jr-inside-out-project/) project, including really influential, political artworks... ![jr inside out]() jr inside out ## Vhils Of course also Portuguese-born deconstruction artist Alexandre Farto aka **Vhils** has to be in this top-list. His [explosion wall art](/exploding-walls-vhils/) has impressed people of all nations, for what reason there are several [documentaries about him](/vhils-documentary/) and also [a new book](/vhils-destruction-art-book/) featuring his brilliant works! ![vhils book]() vhils book ## Herakut This year, German urban artist duo **Herakut** did a great job again! Painting in [Yekaterinburg](/herakut-yekaterinburg/), [Newcastle](/herakut-installation-in-newcastle/) and for the [CityLeaks Festival](/herakut-mural-cityleaks-festival/) in Cologne, they spread their creative voice far and loud and published[ their own book](/herakut-book-after-the-laughter/)! Of course we will see some more of their nice artworks in 2012... ![herakut london mural]() herakut london mural ## Blu For years now, mural art master **Blu** is the unchallenged urban art hero. In addition to several walls he presented [his own DVD](/blu-mural-art-dvd/) earlier this year! Nothing more to say, except: Big up man! ![blu mural art]() blu mural art ## MadC Also famous writer **MadC** had a great year again, presenting [her own chair](/spray-can-chair-mad-700/) as a special highlight this year, she also had an own [show in London](/graffiti-show-madc-london/)! Hope to see some more during next year. ![madc london]() madc london ## Clemens Behr Last but not least, it’s Berlin-based urban artist **Clemens Behr** who made it in this list. Behr used 2011 to travel the world, creating his dope cardboard-installations not just in Amiens, Paris, [Berlin](/inside-clemens-behr-installation/), Vienna and Malmo but also in [New York](/clemens-behr-new-york-cardboard-installation/), Barcelona and [other metropolises](/clemens-behr-new-cardboard-installations/)! Make sure to keep him in view for 2012... ![clemens behr cardboard art]() clemens behr cardboard art That’s it. Right, I could go on and on, presenting other top urban artists, but I have to cut here. However, if you think I forgot someone really important, use the comment area to write down some words about your favourite artist in 2011!