best street artists in the world

Bumblebees stencils often juxtapose the charm of innocent childhood scenes against the gritty urban landscape. His installations around L.A. are interesting, where phone booths and newspaper boxes are taken over by beehives with industrious miniature bee sculptures inside.

This man needs no introduction. Shepard Faireys Andre and Obama Hope images are some of the best known artistic images of the past decade. His recent street work has mostly focused on complex layered patterns as backdrops to propaganda style images.

Other is from Canada, but seems to be in a different country every month; his unusual figures made of composite patterns and features find their way onto walls and freight trains around the world.

Liqen does not seem to court attention, but his talent demands it. His detailed narrative scenes draw you into looking at them for a long time, trying to untangle all the different aspects. Originally from Spain, he now paints in Mexico.

Stinkfish has two distinct styles: monochromatic portraits and stencils, and wildly colorful, patterned walls.

Young and supremely talented, Aryz paints huge walls with a dark, illustrated style.

A relative newcomer, the Argentinian Hyuro is now based in Valencia, Spain and often paints with Escif. She creates dramatic, introspective scenes of characters exploring their thoughts and emotions.

Iemzas abstract portraits use a variety of styles, but always use color and decaying walls effectively to create a mysterious, alien feel.

Sten and Lex collaborate to create very unusual stencils, using benday dots and lines of varying thickness.

Often working with Vine and ReFreshInk, Seacreatives illustrated characters in abandoned buildings are reminiscent of Barry McGees figures, but they convey their own type of wonder and emotion.