Biography of Amoor, muralist and painter
Muralist and painter · France
From graffiti to pop-realism
On the scaffold, mural for Adoma, Dijon, 2026
Career
Amoor discovered painting through graffiti in 2002. In 2007 he became a painter and joined a small gallery in Alsace, where his graffiti and stencil work gradually found their way into his canvases. His first exhibitions took him from Schiltigheim to Stuttgart.
He then spent three years in Andalusia, where he worked with a gallery and several local artists, exhibited in Granada and painted at festivals. Several months of immersion in Mexico and Guadeloupe followed. Those cultures still feed his palette of vivid colours today.
In 2015, he became a professional artist and founded the collective Urban Art Déco. Since then he has painted murals for cities, healthcare facilities, companies and events, up to 290 m² for a single commission.
Spray-paint portrait, mural detail
Pop-realism
His style pairs hyper-realistic, spray-painted portraits with abstract backgrounds of shapes, patterns and bold flat colour. Very large-scale painting is his specialty.
A face several metres wide keeps the precision of a portrait painted on canvas.
Commitment
His painting also serves causes close to his heart. In 2022, he painted in acrylic on wood a portrait of Timothy Cho, a Christian who survived the North Korean regime: a face behind bars.
Timeline
- 202530-metre mural at Strasbourg train station for SNCF Gares & Connexions
- 2023Murals in the Polygone district of Strasbourg with the company Les Passeurs; glass recycling point on Rue Mozart for the city of Sélestat
- 2022Selected for the Street Art Avenue festival (Plaine Commune, Greater Paris): a 100 m² mural under the A86 motorway in Saint-Denis; “Europe” mural for the city of Strasbourg at the Docks Malraux
- 2015Becomes a professional artist, founds Urban Art Déco
- 2013-2014Andalusia: Galería Miguel Ángel (Mojácar), “Música, Imagen y Pensamiento” exhibition (Granada), Festival 180 (Agua Amarga)
- 2008-2010Europe Art exhibitions (Stuttgart, Schiltigheim) and Organ 3 (Strasbourg)
- 2007Becomes a painter, joins a gallery in Alsace
- 2002First graffiti work
Exhibitions and stages
Galleries and exhibitions
- “To those who have offended us”, Lyon, 2018 (group show and live painting)
- Galería Miguel Ángel, Mojácar (Spain), 2014
- “Música, Imagen y Pensamiento”, Granada (Spain), 2013
- Europe Art: Stuttgart 2008 and 2010, Schiltigheim 2009, Hindisheim gallery 2010
- Organ 3 exhibition, Strasbourg, 2009
Festivals and live painting
- Street Art Avenue, Saint-Denis, 2022
- Street Art Spektakel, Stuttgart (Germany), 2013
- Fête de la musique: Strasbourg Citadel, 2012; Place Bellecour, Lyon, 2015
- Urban Session Festival, Lauterbourg, 2010; Festival du Lardon, Nordhouse, 2011
- Neighbourhood festivals in Strasbourg (Krutenau 2008, Neudorf 2012) and Lingolsheim (2014)
Contact
For a public commission, an exhibition or a collaboration, Amoor can be reached from the contact page. His work for cities and institutions is presented on the murals and public art commissions page.