Niels Shoe Meulman (born 1967) is a visual artist, known for his gestural paintings which reveal vivid traces of graffiti and calligraphy. He revolutionized the art of writing when he initiated the Calligraffiti movement, claiming “a word is an image and writing is painting”.
Being a graffiti pioneer from Amsterdam, Shoe tagged along with New York counterparts such as Dondi White, Rammellzee and Keith Haring in the 1980s. Equally influenced by the great painters of Abstract Expressionism, he gradually found his own way to translate street attitude to gallery walls.
Experimenting within the traditional medium of paint-on-canvas, but also unafraid to venture into new realms like conceptual installations and poetry, Niels Shoe Meulman keeps pushing the limits of Urban Contemporary.
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Shoe's work is for sale through Danysz Gallery (Paris, Shanghai, London), Museum of Graffiti Private Gallery (Miami), Unruly Gallery (online), The Curators Room (Amsterdam, Barcelona) and Ghost Galerie (Marseille, Paris).
For commissions and other inquiries, please send an email to info@nielsshoemeulman.com.
Find Shoe’s online archives on the Calligraffiti website (2007-2015) and the Chronical website (1979-2009).
SHOE IN FRONT OF ‘PERSONA UNGRATA’, MUNICH 2017 (PHOTO BY MARTHA COOPER)