JonOne

JonOne

Dominican-born graffiti artist and painter, John Andrew Perello aka JonOne, was born in New York in the sixties. Growing up in the Harlem neighborhood, JonOne made his mark by tagging trains and neighborhood walls from the age of seventeen. Self-taught, he will then move from the urban medium to the canvas, on which he will be exhibited throughout the world. His works are clearly influenced by his personal experience, marked by hip hop, the street and the metro, as well as by the codes of modern painting.

With his innovative style that goes beyond the laws dictated by graffiti, street art and urban culture, he creates «freestyle» works without any limits. The freedom he advocates above all is his only slogan. 

After he moved to Paris in 1987 and met artists of all stripes (Speedy Graphito, LAII, etc.), a new conquest began for him: that of the canvas.