Miss Van

Born in Toulouse in 1973, Miss Van is one of the pioneers of the female urban art scene. Beginning to paint in the early 1990s, her characters, inspired by dolls and comic-book pin-ups, were noticed for how different they were from the graffiti painted by the male urban scene at the time. In the 2000s, his dolls were depicted with their eyes closed. This act was synonymous with introspection for the artist and became Miss Van's trademark. Her universe was then defined, oscillating between burlesque fantasies and tortured dreams. Her work has been the subject of numerous exhibitions, including Openspace Gallery in Paris in 2018, Soze Gallery in Los Angeles in 2013 and Merry Karnowsky Gallery in Berlin in 2008.