Spain
Noor Riyadh
SpY (b. 1975) is a Spanish urban artist who creates large-scale public installations and interventions that playfully engage with the cityscape and disrupt daily routines. His projects raise questions about the reality of human relationships, challenging the audience while involving them in the artistic process. SpY’s practice often presents a conceptual juxtaposition between the aesthetics of his artworks and the deeper significance of the materials used.
The Madrid-based artist designs and produces these unique experiences from his workshop SpY Studio, where he works with a team of technical specialists and craftspeople. He has exhibited widely in public spaces and institutions in the US, Switzerland, Spain, China, and Germany. In 2022, SpY showed his artwork Earth (2021) at We Dream of New Horizons, Noor Riyadh Festival in Riyadh and also exhibited ORB (2022) at Forever is Now II by Art D’Égypte at the Pyramids of Giza in Egypt.
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