Home | Stencil Archive

Since 2002 (updated often), your old-school website for all things stencils. Photo, video, links, and exhibit info submissions always welcome. Enjoy and stay curious.

On the walls! 8/21 to 9/10, SF, CA :: CELLspace PopUp :: IG :: Invite
Donate any amount to support this DIY site.
Buy Stencil Nation or take a tour
Our best photos on Instagram and flickr.

22 Apr: ICY And SOT Stencil Exhibition, Tehran

Friday, April 22 at 4:00pm - April 27 at 8:00pm

Mehrin Art Gallery

No.96 ,South Fazel st. ,Gisha Ave.

Tehran, Iran

Read more »

In the Galleries

Street Art Utopia

We declare the world as our canvas

Link

Street Art Utopia

Links

Collections, Blogs, Community

Read more »

If You Take Street Art Off the Street, Is It Still Art?

Fans Cut Mural Linked to Banksy From Wall; One Man's Rescue, Another's Heist

By MATTHEW DOLAN

WSJ link

DETROIT—Secured inside a wooden crate and locked in a warehouse is a painting that could cement this city's reputation as a showcase for avant-garde art. Or as a wasteland waiting to be picked apart.

It's a stenciled image on a 7-foot-by-7-foot slab of cinder-block wall, showing a small boy holding a can and paintbrush.

Next to the boy are the words: "I remember when all this was trees."

The painting came from the grounds of the old Packard auto plant, one of the city's infamous industrial ruins. And it is believed to be the work of the mysterious street artist Banksy, whose graffiti-like renderings adorn the lanes of London and the walls of the West Bank. His ironic urban images, or "tags," have produced world-wide fame and led him to create an Oscar-nominated documentary.

Read more »

News Articles

24 March: PILGRIM, BABY! - NEW WORKS BY XOOOOX

MARCH 24 2011 TO APRIL 23 2011
Preview march 23rd 7 pm

After working and exhibiting for many years as a street artist, abstract painter and photographer under a variety of pseudonyms, the artist will integrate for the first time his differnt approaches under the artistic concept of XOOOOX. Like a modern day pilgrim, XOOOOX wanders through the various paths of art.

This Spring 2011 Circleculture Gallery is exhibiting new works by the Berlin-based artist XOOOOX. His third exhibition at the gallery, PILGRIM, BABY! is the most personal thus far, merging the artist’s mediums of street art, abstract painting and photography for the first time.

Read more »

In the Galleries

20 March: Blek in SF

Blek le Rat, Free University Art School Event

Sunday, March 20, 2011 – 2PM to 4PM

Viracocha
...
998 Valencia Street (at 21st Street)

San Francisco, CA

Course Description:

The Free University Art School is very fortunate, and proud to present the very prolific street artist Blek le Rat on his journey around the world. He stops here with us for an extensive two hour presentation, sharing his masterful stencil art with the people of The Free University of San Francisco. Blek will tell his story, share his insurgent spirit, show his work and may even create some stencil art live in person.

Come early / limited room!

Bio:

Blek le Rat was born in Boulogne-Billancourt, Paris in 1951. He is considered by most in the graffiti world to be the godfather of stencil graffiti art. He studied painting and architecture. He began his artwork in Paris in 1981. Since then he has had a great influence on today’s graffiti and “guerrilla art” movements, his main motivation being social consciousness and the desire to bring art to the people.

Read more »

Artist News

Over 130 Stencil Uploads to Distract You

Thanks WNCW for the tunes to back me up on this latest upload to the Stencil Archive. Thanks to all the folks who continue to submit photos in the wild and of their own cut outs. Here's hoping you all can take a break from the anxiety of a non-stop 24/7 news feed on all the troubles in the world. Time to check out some stencils!

Read more »

Stencil Archive News

18 Mar: Stencil the World (St. Louis, MO)

St. Louis' First International Stencil Show!
http://www.stenciltheworld.com/

Reception: 7-11p, March 18
On View: March 17- April 20
Location: Gallery AM - Art Monster, 2617 Cherokee St.

Stencil World: SAINT LOUIS will happen during SGC (southern Graphics Council) Which Will bring in thousands of Print-makers from all over the country to view this exhibition of Stencil Art (the oldest form of printmaking)

This exhibition will feature some of the Best artists from around the Globe.

Including: c215 (Paris), Logan Hicks (Brooklyn) Dude Company (Lille, France), Joe Iurato (New Jersey), HAHA (Melbourne), Buxtonia (Vermont) Czarnobyl (Berlin), koleszar (Phoenix), Peat Wollaeger/stenSOUL (St. Louis), Burn 353, Josh Smith (Adelide) a1one (Iran), David Soukup (Chicago), Chris Stain (Brooklyn), Jef Aerosol (Paris), Mat Curran (N. Carolina) and many others.

A large-scale stencil mural will be sprayed on Cherokee Street, featuring stencil from show participants.

Sponsored by Schlafly Beer

Read more »

In the Galleries

[u]: Link for ghalamDAR (IR)

Stencil Arhcive has updated the link for Iranian artist ghalamDAR.

go here to see and read more: http://www.ghalamdar.deviantart.com/

Read more »

Artist News

(de)Appropriation Project (SF, CA)

deappropriationproject.net is the third archive of the (de)Appropriation Project: the continuing documentation of a wall fronting the jail cells of the former Mission Police Station at 1240 Valencia Street, San Francisco.

Link

(de)Appropriation Project (SF, CA)

Links

Collections, Blogs, Community