Bebar

Bebar (Mathias Mendez, born in 1993) is a French urban artist of Spanish descent, from Vitry-sur-Seine. He started out very young with graffiti, influenced by urban culture and drawing. A hyperactive child, he found in drawing the only way to channel his energy. He painted his first wall in 2010 and joined the MAC Crew, the collective that organises Kosmopolite, the first international graffiti festival in France.

He then trained at the Arts Décoratifs in Paris, where he obtained a master's degree in 2017, after a period at Parsons School of Design in New York, which broadened his practice between urban art and contemporary art.

His work mixes the figurative and the abstract, with strong colours and shapes in motion, often inspired by cartoons and hip-hop culture.

In 2015, he took part in the artists' residency at the Gare du Nord, run by Quai 36 and SNCF. In 2019 he won the "Paris Vous Aime Inspiré" prize from Aéroports de Paris, and the same year presented the exhibition "Regarde Moi" in New York. This was followed by "Rétrospective" in 2024, then "Nuances" at the Rayon Noir gallery in Paris in 2025. Today, he paints murals in France and abroad (Paris, New York, Montreal), also exhibits in galleries and divides his time between France and the United States.