Origins
MonkeyBird Crew is a French street?art duo formed by artists Blow and Tchoé, who both studied design and applied arts before developing a shared stencil practice in public space in the early 2010s. They chose a monkey and a bird as their alter egos and recurring characters, using these figures to stage the tension between instinct and intellectual elevation in the human condition.
Current situation
The duo now produces large?scale murals, engraved panels, wood?based stencils and site?specific installations for public commissions, street?art festivals and gallery shows. Their work is regularly exhibited in France and abroad (Europe, the Middle East, the Americas) within contemporary mural festivals and urban?art fairs.
Place of residence
MonkeyBird Crew is a France?based collective; publicly available information does not reliably specify a single main city of residence, and the artists travel frequently for mural projects and exhibitions.
Graphic style and media
MonkeyBird’s visual language is defined by highly detailed, engraving?like drawing combined with architectural structures, geometric ornaments and symbols drawn from hermeticism, mythology and medieval as well as industrial iconography. They primarily use multi?layered stencils on walls, wood, metal and glass, with a restrained palette of black, white, grey, gold and occasional red accents. Their images feature anthropomorphic creatures – the monkey and the bird – as allegorical figures to address themes such as the passage of time, memory, technology and the quest for freedom.
List of exhibitions
MonkeyBird Crew has taken part in numerous mural interventions and solo or group exhibitions in galleries and street?art festivals in France and internationally. Detailed exhibition lists vary across institutions (galleries, festivals, residencies) and are not compiled in a single exhaustive, publicly verified source.
Web article links
A detailed presentation of the duo, their symbolism and visual universe can be found on StreetArtBio: https://www.streetartbio.com/artists/monkeybird-crew/. Their official website provides a portfolio of works, murals and exhibition views: https://monkeybird.fr/. Their Instagram account documents recent pieces and ongoing projects: https://www.instagram.com/monkeybird_crew/.