Jef Aerosol

Jean-François Perroy, better known under the pseudonym Jef Aérosol, was born in Nantes (France) on January 15th 1957. He's a French urban stencil artist, a main proponent of the first generation of street artists who started working on the streets in the early 80s.

He spraypainted his very first stencil in Tours (Central France) in 1982: a self portrait enlarged from a photobooth photo. He was a pioneer of what is now called "urban art" and he remains a reference and an influence among street artists of the younger generations.

Text © Jef Aerosol, 2018