Pez

Born in Nantes, France in 1981.

Lives and works in France.

Pierre-Yves Riveau aka PEZ has been influenced from an early age by graffiti and hip hop culture, and by a host of artists such as Klimt, Magritte, Escher, Dali, Banksy, Kaws and many others. Most of the time, he works unconventionally, almost exclusively from his imagination, and sometimes the process serves the idea and not the other way around. When Pez was a child, he used to hold his pencil incorrectly, and his teacher punished him frequently. He still does, and that’s not going to change.
“I don’t think I have some kind of mission or anything because I’m an artist. I add messages to my work because I like it, but I’ll never force myself if I have nothing to say.”

 

Solo shows

 

2018 Avenue des Arts, Sweet Life, Los Angeles, USA.
Hoxton Arches, Sweet Life, London, England.

2019 Galerie Joseph, The Etchy & Sketchy show, Paris, France.

2023 Cohle Gallery, The Sketchbook, Paris, France.

2024 Cohle Gallery, Urban Art Fair, Premier degre, Paris, France.

 

Group shows

2013 Graffiti Prints, Different Strokes, London, England.

2014 Graffiti Prints, Different Strokes, New-York, USA.

2016 Stolen Space, Reasons for Seasons, London, England.
Avenue des Arts, Art Central, Hong-Kong, China.

2017 Avenue des Arts, One & All, Los Angeles, USA.
Avenue des Arts, Urban Art Fair, Paris, France.
Avenue des Arts, Moniker Art Fair, London, England.

2018 Treason Gallery, Vice & Vertue, Seatle, USA.
Happy Gallery, Pop up Show, Paris, France.
Avenue des Arts, Art Context, Miami, USA.

2022 One Root One Artist, Paris & Bordeaux, France.
Lorin Gallery, On the road to Basel, Los Angeles, USA.
Graffiti Prints, 10 years of Graffitiprints, Margate, England.

2023 Cohle Gallery, Summer Friends, Paris, France.

2024 Urban Signature, 100 % Paper, Paris, France.
Graffiti Prints, Vision.S, Margate, England.
Mazel Galerie, Natsukashii, Brussels, Belgium.
Mazel Galerie, Rock, paper, scissors, Brussels, Belgium.

2025 Mazel Galerie, Never Grow Up, Brussels, Belgium.
Mazel Galerie, Urban Art Fair, Paris, France.
Mazel Galerie, Since 2010, Brussels, Belgium.