About The Artist:
Born in 1972, Gregos, grew up in the northern suburbs of Paris (Gonesse, Villiers le Bel).
Self-taught, his first steps in street art were in Graffiti painting during the late 80s, early 90s.In 1997, after 2 years in Athens, Greece, he starts experimenting with sculpting and molding techniques. And in 2006, he leaves for Boston, Massachusetts, USA where he initiates himself to acrylic painting. Back in Paris in 2006, he goes back to his first love: street art. In the Montmartre district where he now lives, he decides to participate and mingle in the ever present street art in this area of Paris. He invents his own 3D concept using all the techniques he has developed and taught himself over the years and creates replicates of his face, tongue out or smiling, that he paints and glues on the walls of Paris.
Each face is a sort of self-portrait of the day to express his humors, his past, present, and future, everything that makes Gregos…
As of today, more than 500 faces have been installed in Paris mostly, but also in French Guiana (and along the Maroni river in amazonia), and other French cities, as well in Los Angeles, Portland, Seattle, Wroclaw ( Poland), Tokyo and Kyoto (Japan), the Island of Malta, and Sao Paulo in Brazil.
Exhibitions:
2011 – United colors of Gregos, Centre Culturel de la Merise, Trappes
Expositions Collectives
2011 – Quartier du street art, Commanderie des Templiers de la Villedieu, Elancourt
2011 - Back to Black, Galerie 770, Paris
2011 – Empreintes Urbaines, Palais d’Iéna, Paris
2011 – Des flowers et des hommes, Galerie Celal, Paris
2011 – GLAZ’ART, lancement de l’ouvrage 40 Street Artistes Au Carré, Chrixcel, D’après l’idée de H. Kaufman, Ed. Kawa, Paris
2011 – Street Love, YONO, Paris
2010 – Cinémaniaque, Galerie Ligne 13, Paris
2010 – Autoportraits et portraits de maîtres, Galerie Ligne 13, Paris
2010 – La rue est vers l’art, Galerie Etienne de Causan, Paris
2008 – Journée mondiale du réfugié, Médiathèque de Châtillon
Art Auctions:
May 30th 2011 – Empreinte urbaines – Urban imprints, “Palais d’Iena”, Paris, France SOS Racisme and Pierre Bergé
March 8th 2011 – Hungtington association, Neuille, France
March 3rd 2011 – Road safety association Paris, France
February 7th 2011 – For the children of Haiti, Drouot-Montaigne, Paris
June 18th 2010 - Fouquets Paris
November 2009 – Aiga Art at the Bentley Projects Phoenix, Arizona, USA
Press and Media
April 2011 – Interview in the Magazine Paris Tonkar, France (3 pages)
January 2011 – Part of the book 40 artistes au carré, Kawa editions.
January 2011 – Interview in the Magazine Le Bonbon, France (2 pages)
November 2010 – Double pages in the magazine Plaza, Sweden
September 2010 – Double pages in the magazine Palace Costes, France
June 2010 – Double pages in the magazine Vivre Paris, France
June 2010 – Article in the newspaper L’éclair, Belgium
November 2009 – TV show Paris dernière
August 2009 – 2 faces in the news on national TV TF1
