Laser 3.14

Laser 3.14 is the pseudonym of an anonymous Dutch graffiti artist based in Amsterdam, who spray-paints short poems in public space. He started painting graffiti in the early 1980s, at around eleven, then attended a graphic design school.

His taste for science fiction led him to adopt the name Laser. He added "3.14" to his name, the number pi, short for "Public Image".

His phrases, in English, comment on city politics as well as on his own life. Laser 3.14 most often writes them on the temporary wooden hoardings of building sites rather than on walls. He remains anonymous so that his work can speak for itself. In 2009 he published his book "Are You Reading Me?".

Laser 3.14 has exhibited at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam and the Amsterdam Museum. He is a winner of the PAX Peace Prize. In March 2019, Speerstra Gallery gave him his first Paris exhibition, "Catch a Dream and Nurture It".