PAUL
YANER

Born in Tuscany in the 1980s, Paul Yaner emerged from the graffiti scene of the early 2000s, painting letters across Europe, the United States, and Asia. In 2019 he joined The Death Squad, one of the most influential crews in the history of graffiti writing, and later collaborated with the pioneering New York gallerist Hugo Martinez on the publication of Graffiti 101 and a group exhibition in Harlem.

Paul Yaner’s work is an endless series of references to art history and popular culture, especially its grittiest and most underground expressions. Layered both physically and conceptually, his canvases merge the figurative language of street photography, the graphic style of vintage comics, the abstract qualities of material and color, and the primitive mark-making of graffiti culture.

The result is a body of work that creates original and coherent visual narratives, reflecting on lives suspended between the superficiality of digital screens and the depth of human interaction within the contemporary urban landscape.