The world of street art is a vibrant, ever-evolving canvas that reflects the thoughts, ideas, and aesthetics of diverse cultures around the globe. Among this profusion of creativity, one subject stands out and continues to inspire artists across borders and continents – the cat.

This feline-inspired street art phenomenon is far-reaching, with each corner of the world lending its own unique perspective to the representation of cats in public art. In the bustling cities of Japan, for example, where the cat is considered a symbol of good luck, you might spot murals depicting ‘Maneki-neko’ or the ‘beckoning cat’, a common Japanese talisman believed to bring fortune and prosperity.

Across the Atlantic, in the urban landscapes of New York or Los Angeles, artists portray cats as emblems of the city’s spirit – independent, resourceful, and resilient. These murals often depict cats prowling rooftops or lounging lazily in the sun-drenched corners of the city, much like their human counterparts.

The styles in this collection range from super realistic to bold and colorful. Each piece tells its own story, celebrating how much people love cats. This collection is full of surprises and purr-sonality!

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About: House turned into a giant cardboard box with a cat

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About: The Giant Kitten

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About: The Red Cat Mural: A Street Art Piece by LeHo Artwork in Taipei

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About: They made a statue to honor a stray cat that used to sit in this position and watch the passers by

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About: Street (cat) Art by SWIFTMANTIS in Papaioea, New Zealand (4 photos)

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About: Street Art by DALeast – In Paris, France

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About: Cat! – Street art by Näutil in Réthoville, France (9 photos)

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Photo by Strangefruit Street Art.
About: Pelle Svanslös mural by Charlie Granberg in Uppsala, Sweden.

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About: Summer and Winter by Braga Last One in southern France (6 photos and video)

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About: 6 pics: Lynx Cat – Made of plastic waste by BORDALO II in Lisboa, Portugal

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About: Street Art in Valparaíso, Chile

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About: Cat by Stamatis Laskos in Naousa, Imathia, Greece

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About: Cat Mural by Dan Leo (+ 4 more animals)

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About: Meow meow (5 photos)

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About: Cat In A Box – By Vladi in Hong Kong

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About: A feast for the eyes with the enchanting cat mural by artist Uriginal in Barcelona (4 photos)

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About: Sleeping Painted Cat by Jack Lack in Grenoble, France

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About: Black Cat mural by 3MK in Ptolemaida, Greece

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About: Cute Star Cat by Sagie in Jönköping, Sweden

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About: Cat waiting for mouse – 11 Paste Ups by LIZ ART BERLIN

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About: ‘Rustle in Feilding’ – Cat mural by SWIFTMANTIS at Manawatū Street Art Festival in Manawatu-Wanganui, New Zealand

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About: Meet Olive, she’s a Christchurch city stray cat and she’s in need of a home! Mural by SWIFTMANTIS in New Zealand

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About: Cat in London by Neon Artist David Speeduk

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About: Cat Lover by Spray Lover in Lisbon, Portugal (4 photos)

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About: Cat mural by LexusOne in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia

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About: We will meet again in another life when we are both cats

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About: The natural movement of this cat sculpture is amazing

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About: All Cats Are Beautiful (Dirty Van Art)

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About: There was some racist rubbish here but I covered it up with this picture of a cat

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About: Cat – Street Art by JPS

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About: Sleeping kitten 2 by WA in Lima, Peru

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About: Big ginger kitten escaping from the side of the building

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About: 1312 Hello Kitty

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About: Street Artist N.M in Flensburg, Germany

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About: Happy Cats! – In Kyiv, Ukraine

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About: Unknown artist and location

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About: Snow Cats climbing trees

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About: Cat lights in Zelenogradsk, Russia

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About: This is in Germany, made to honor all homeless cats (3 pics)

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About: #caturstones on #caturday

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About: The Cat Trace (Caturday #69)

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About: Street Art by 0331C – A Collection

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About: 6 Photos of Street Art by Banksy in Gaza, Palestine: “People only look at pictures of kittens”

Which cat is your favorite? Should we do more blog posts with street art of cats?

STREET ART UTOPIA

2024-04-07 19:51:25

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The Giant Kitten

Street Artist Oriol Arumi

By Oriol Arumi at Torrefarrera Street Art Festival in Torrefarrera, Cataluna, Spain.

Oriol Arumí (Vic, 31 October 1972) is a Catalan painter and muralist living in the city of Lleida. His work is technically straddling between figurative and abstract art, and thematically between reality and fantasy. This gives him a wide range of possibilities that allows him to do completely what he likes at any given time: “I always have in mind painters as varied as Johannes Vermeer, Salvador Dalí, Claude Monet, Gustav Klimt and Joan Miró, not to mention of sketchers like Hergé or Moebius ”.

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Street Art Festival on Instagram: "EDICIÓ ESPECIAL TSAF ‘20 📢 L’artista ens explica el que ha fet aquest any a la quarta edició del Street Art de Torrefarrera.👏🏻👏🏻 ... En aquesta ocasió en explica que ha utilitzat la tècnica que es diu “Trompe-l’oei

115 likes, 8 comments - streetartfestivalpw on September 3, 2020: "EDICIÓ ESPECIAL TSAF ‘20 📢 L’artista ens explica el que ha fet aquest any a la quarta edició del Street Art de Torrefarrera.👏🏻👏🏻 ...

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A tiny story about creating community:

When I started to attend the ACM’s CHI (Computer Human Interaction) conference in the late 1980s, I didn’t know any other lgbtq people who worked in my field. At that time being out and gay was still really fraught, and could get you fired or ostracized in a lot of places. I myself was recently out, and felt a real lack of community.

Back then, before mobile phones, conferences had “message boards”. They were big cork bulletin boards put up in a central location. To leave a message for someone, you would write them a paper note, fold it up, write the recipient’s name on it and pin it to the board. People would check the boards for messages during the day.

The second year I went to CHI, I put a note on the message board that said “Lambda CHI lunch”, with a little pink triangle on it, and a time and place to meet. (In the 80s, gay folk knew what the pink triangle meant, but most straight people had no idea. “Lambda” was another symbol used by the gay community, although you see it less nowadays. I figured any bigot looking at the note would just assume it was for a fraternity.)

I waited with some trepidation at the meeting point, wondering if anyone at all would come. Was I the only one? Was my note too cryptic? To my delight, a crowd of about 10 people showed up, including one of the conference chairs. We had a great lunch, and I made some contacts I stayed in touch with over the years, some of whom later provided great support and mentorship to young me.

I organized Lambda CHI lunches for a few years, and after I stopped attending CHI, others did. Of course, decades later these kind of affinity socializing events have become part of official conference schedules.

The point of this story is that there is a lot of potential community in the world, just waiting for one person to seed it — to put out that first invitation with a time and place on it. At that first lunch, so many people said to me “I’m so glad somebody organized this”. So if there is a community that you wish existed, I encourage you to remember that you are somebody, and are therefore well qualified to start it. Sometimes all you need to do is specify a place and time.

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