{"id":2618,"date":"2021-11-27T16:33:25","date_gmt":"2021-11-27T15:33:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/galerieartima.fr\/keymi-biography"},"modified":"2025-05-21T15:27:45","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T13:27:45","slug":"keymi-biography","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/galerie-artima.com\/en\/keymi-biography","title":{"rendered":"KEYMI – Biography"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Biography<\/p>\n<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Was born in Paris in 1973. Lives and works at Clermont-Ferrand.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Keymi (Mickey in slang) started to paint in 1990. He grew up during the hip hop trend and made his first fresco and graffiti using spray in 1992. After his studies in art history at Clermont Ferrand University, he became an artist and try new techniques like aerographs, watercolor, or acrylic paintings between 1995 and 1998. Those new mediums made his artworks richer, his technique became unique, and he started a new visual identity very different from the traditional graffiti.<\/p>\n

Keymi is inspired by famous illustrators like Giger, Alien\u2019s maker, Franck Frazetta, Boris Valejo, Brom, Gil Elvgren, Alberto Vargas, Sorayama Luis Royo and by calligraphists such as Claude M\u00e9diavilla, Hassan Massoudi, Fabienne Verdier. He is also interested in comics and manga even if he likes paintings and landscape of classicism. He likes baroque frescos and the rococo churches although he also appreciates 20th century painting and custom and tattoo aesthetics.<\/p>\n

His graffiti falls into two categories: characters and lettering. In the 2000s, he covered the gray walls of Clermont Ferrand with no fewer than 172 works. Initially created without authorization, his graffiti gradually gained the goodwill of the authorities, with municipal services instructed not to erase them. Tirelessly in search of a place with a history, an atmosphere, he paints on buildings that he believes are the only evidence of our passage on earth, as if he wanted to fight time and make what he paints timeless.<\/p>\n

In 2009, the discovery of how to cut polystyrene marked a turning point, enabling him to create his first puzzle shapes, which would become his trademark. Constantly on the lookout for new techniques and know-how, his work never ceases to evolve in terms of volume, texture and subject matter. From the pin-ups that made his name to Abstract Calligraphies or Cacophonies and Rumeurs (a mix of pop, manga, film, graffiti and typographic influences), he is now moving towards greater abstraction and contemporary inspiration.<\/p>\n

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His work has been exhibited at Galerie Artima since 2011, as well as in Europe and the United States.
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Exhibitions: <\/strong><\/p>\n

2025
\nCapharna\u00fcm<\/em> – Solo exhibition – Galerie Artima
\nPalimpseste<\/em> – Group show – Le Soute – Cusset
\nArt des villes, art des champs – Group show – La Lisi\u00e8re – Neschers
\nAAF – Brussels – Galerie Artima
\nDistrict 13 Art Fair- Galerie Christiane Vall\u00e9 – Paris
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2024
\nVariations par Keymi<\/em> – Solo exhibition – Galerie Christiane Vall\u00e9 – Clermont Ferrand
\nGalerie Deza – Group show – Roanne
\nAAF – Brussels – Galerie Artima
\nGalerie Arnaud Rogez – Group show – Lille
\nL\u2019Autre Galerie – Group show – Nancy
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2023
\nM\u00e9tamorphose urbaine<\/em> – Group show – Galerie Christiane Vall\u00e9 – Clermont Ferrand
\nInstallation Deus Ex Machina Key – Galerie Christiane Vall\u00e9
\nCompositions abstraites<\/em> – Solo exhibition – Galerie Artima \u2013 Paris
\nAAF Battersea – Galerie Artima – London
\nCh\u00e2teau de Val – Solo exhibition – Bort-Bort-les Orgues
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2022
\nMo n’ Key pop<\/em> – Galerie Artima – Paris
\nAAF Battersea – Galerie Artima – London<\/p>\n

2021
\nCharity sales – Fondation Brigitte Bardot – Rossini – Paris
\nAAF Battersea – Galerie Artima – London
\nLe Soute – Graffiti et Art Urbain -Vichy
\nMo n’ Key pop #4<\/em> – Galerie Christiane Vall\u00e9 – Clermont Ferrand
\nAAF London – Galerie Artima – Paris<\/p>\n

2020
\nPetits plaisirs<\/em> – Galerie Artima – Paris
\nRumor has it<\/em> – Solo show – Galerie Artima – Paris
\nGalerie Christiane Vall\u00e9 – Tokyo
\nGalerie Deza – Roanne
\nBear Galerie – Uz\u00e8s
\nAAF Battersea Spring – Galerie Artima – London<\/p>\n

2019
\nSolo show – Galerie Artima – Paris
\nAAF New York – Artered Gallery – NYC
\nAAF Hampstead – Galerie Artima – London
\nMo n’ Key pop #2<\/em> – Clermont Ferrand
\nDesign<\/em> – Group show – Galerie Artima – Paris
\nLexus – Aubi\u00e8re<\/p>\n

2018
\nAAF Singapore – Artered Gallery – SG
\nGraff – exposition personnelle – Galerie Deza – Roanne
\nCacophonies #2<\/em> – Galerie Artima – Paris
\nStreet Art<\/em> – Group show with Zenoy, Jo di Bona – Galerie Artima – London
\nFrench Pop<\/em> – Group show – Foxx gallery – Z\u00fcrich<\/p>\n

2017
\nGalerie Burkhard Eikelman – D\u00fcsseldorf
\nBlack & White<\/em> – Group show – Galerie Artima – Paris
\nAAF Lausanne
\nGalerie Artima – London
\nBear Galerie – Uz\u00e8s
\nAFF London – Galerie Artima
\nPin-Up<\/em> – Group show with J\u00f6rg D\u00f6ring – Galerie Artima – Paris
\nArtered gallery – New York<\/p>\n

2016
\nCollection particuli\u00e8re<\/em> – Galerie Artima – Paris
\nCacophonie #1<\/em> – solo show – Galerie Artima – Paris
\nClermont Urban Graff
\nConnexion fran\u00e7aise<\/em> – solo show – Urbane Art – Edinburgh
\nAAF London – Galerie Artima
\nLes Arts en Balade – Clermont-Ferrand<\/p>\n

2015
\nTrans’urbaines 2015 – Clermont-Ferrand
\nGalerie Petitjean – Lyon
\nThe Aberdeen Art Fair – Urbane Art – Edinburgh
\nAAF Battersea London – Galerie Artima
\nPin up et graffitis<\/em> – solo show – Galerie Artima – Paris
\nAAF Bruxelles – Bear galerie<\/p>\n

2014
\nSt-Art – Strasbourg – Bear galerie
\nAFF London – galerie Artima
\nTrans’urbaines 2014 – Clermont Ferrand
\nBear galerie – group show – Uz\u00e8s
\nART3F – Montpellier – Bear Galerie
\nKeep calm and love street art<\/em> – Group show – Galerie G\u00e9raldine Zberro – Paris<\/p>\n

2013
\nGalerie Cour int\u00e9rieure – Clermont-Ferrand
\nAFF London – galerie Artima
\nF\u00e9lix & Co<\/em> – Group show – Ch\u00e2teau d’Hauterive – Issoire
\nGalerie Artima – Paris – Solo exhibition<\/p>\n

2012
\nBear Galerie – Uz\u00e8s<\/p>\n

2009
\nSolo exhibition – Clermont-Ferrand<\/p>\n

2008
\nOpening of the 100m\u00b2 – permanent exhibition with the artist Yoco and Marjorie Herr\u00e9ro
\nSolo exhibition – Espace Victoire – Clermont-Ferrand<\/p>\n

2007
\nEdition of a book: 3 years of painting in the streets of Clermont-Ferrand
\nSolo show – Eglise Neuve – Entraigues
\nGuest of honor – group show – Cusset
\nTrans’urbaines – graffiti coordinator – Clermont-Ferrand
\nRencontres graff – artistic director – La Roche-Blanche
\nGroup show with the artists of the du Puy de D\u00f4me
\nExhibition at the Abattoirs – Riom<\/p>\n

2006
\nGroup show – OPAC – Puy de D\u00f4me
\nSolo show – Commentry<\/p>\n

2005
\nMarch\u00e9 d’art contemporain de Bastille – Paris
\nSolo show – ESC – Clermont-Ferrand
\nSolo show – Orcet<\/p>\n

2004
\nShanghai Art Fair – CHN
\nWork on the construction site of the streetcar – Clermont-Ferrand
\nSolo exhibition – Mairie – Le Cendre
\nSolo exhibition – Montlu\u00e7on
\nGalerie L’Antilope – Lyon – Solo exhibition<\/p>\n

2003
\nSolo show – la Roche Blanche Graffiti Fair of la Roche Blanche – artistic director since 2003<\/p>\n

2001
\nSolo show – Mairie de Clermont-Ferrand<\/p>\n

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