Biography


        Iorgos Pavlopoulos, real name of Ioye, was born in 1974 in the West suburb of Paris, where urban art was rapidly growing and unmistakably of a high level. Straightaway the tone was set. He was initiated into graffiti at the end of the 1980's and quickly got as a leitmotiv the perpetual search for a harmonious, dynamic letter, with bright and hard-hitting sets of colors.

        Overtaken by his Greek origins, he traveled to Athens in 1998, at the end of his studies in cabinetmaking and marquetry at the infamous Parisian school ''Boulle''. He left his mark on the walls of the Greek capital. The imposing size of his paintings along with abundant works caused, indeed, an important visual impact in the urban space.
 His artistic style considerably asserted itself and would from then an influence a whole generation of graffiti artists.

        Back in Paris in 2001, he launched ''WESIDE'', a reference streetwear brand for European graffiti artists.

        Ioye's works marked a turning point in 2009, when he started to practise his creativity on canvas. He did draw his inspiration out of childhood memories, though images, music or perfumes. But also out of his cultural roots.

        His paintings, impregnated with a certain nostalgia, reveal the artist's whole emotional charge and sensitivity.



Selected Exhibitions


2019
Group Show "Paris Saint-Lazare" Argenteuil, France
Group Show "UAF Solo Shows" Paris, France
Group Show (Salon) "Art Elysées" Stand: Galerie Ange Basso, Paris, France 
Group Show XS Gallery, Nouméa, Nouvelle-Calédonie
 
2018
Group Show (Salon) "Art Elysées" Stand: Galerie Ange Basso, Paris, France
Group Show L'Alternatif, Puteaux, France
Group Show Concours (Laureat 3ème Prix) "L'Eau dans la Ville" Pavillon de L'eau, Paris, France
Group Show "Opening Cocktail" La Shaperie, Paris, France
Group Show (Salon) "Urban Artfair3" Stand: Galerie Ange Basso, Paris, France
Solo Show "Hysteria" Galerie Anthony Roth, Paris, France 
Group Show "Gotha" Salle de la Légion d'Honneur, Saint Denis, France

2017
Group Show "Semaines des Cultures Urbaines" Conservatoire de Colombes, Colombes, France
Solo Show "I'm Not A Saint" Kromatique Tattoo Galerie, Paris, France
Goup Show "Fullcolor Summer Heart" Fullcolor Gallery, Crête, Grèce
Group show "Esthétiques Croisées" Galerie Simon&Roth, Paris, France 
Solo Show  Le Qu4tre, Argenteuil, France

2016
Group show  Galerie Artelie, Paris, France
Group show "From Alpha To Omega" Toss Gallery, Thessalonique, Grèce
Group show "Fullcolor Gallery Opening" Fullcolor Gallery, Athènes, Grèce
Group show "Street Art" Galerie Ange Basso, Paris, France

2015
Group show ''United Colors of Henriot'' Galerie de la Manufacture, Quimper, France
Group show ''Photograff'' Galerie ligne 13'' Paris, France
Group Show ''Nocturne Miromesnil'' Galerie Artelie, Paris, France
Solo Show ''Ride The Lightning'' Galerie Ma Première Galerie, Quimper, France


2014
Group Show ''Lettrix'' Galerie Le Paris Urbain, Paris , France
Group Show ''Nocturne Art Miromesnil'' Galerie Artelie, Paris, France Group Show ''Pajol Urban Event'' Halle Pajol, Paris, France
Group Show ''Skate me Out'' Carreau du Temple, Paris, France Group Show ''Safety Art'' Prieuré de Locmaria, Quimper, France


2013
Group Show ''L'art de rue se rue'' Galerie Le Pari(s) Urbain, Paris, France
Group Show ''Le Qu4tre'' Argenteuil, France
Solo Show ''Néa Ionia'' Panetolion Platia Panetoliou Alsoupolis, Néa Ionia, Greece


2012
Solo Show ''Rébétiko'' Maison de la Grèce, Paris, France Group Show ''Le Qu4tre'' Argenteuil, France

2011
Group Show ''Léon s'explose au Palais de la Bourse'' Palais de la Bourse, Marseille, France Group Show ''Léon s'installe à Matignon'' Galerie Félix Vercel, Paris, France
Group Show ''Trains of Fame'' Galerie Oberkampf, Paris, France


2006
Group Show ''Toys from the Underground'' Paris, France
Group Show ''Monsters of Rock'' Le K1ze, Paris, France
Group Show ''Tag the System'' Espace Beaurepaire, Paris, France