Meet the 3 Street Artists That Made Forbes' 2015 "30 Under 30" List

Get familiar with the work of Vhils, Gaia, and Tatyana Fazlalizadeh.

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For their forth annual "30 Under 30" list, Forbes chose 600 people under the age of 30 who have excelled in their respective fields, from Sports and Education to Venture Capital to Food & Drink. The noticeably diverse (both in ethnicity and medium) Art & Style category for 2015 includes painters, bloggers, designers, photographers, ceramicists, and three street artists that you should definitely know from around the world who have been killing it lately. Check them out below.

Tatyana Fazlalizadeh

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The 29-year-old New York-based artist also does gallery work, but she has really been turning heads with her "Stop Telling Women to Smile" street art campaign. Since 2012, Fazlalizadeh has been pasting photos of women in cities like New York and Baltimore with anti-sexual harassment captions, including "Harassing women does not prove your masculinity" and "My name is not baby."

The series is powerful for obvious reasons, but the viral video of a woman being harassed as she walked the streets of New York brought the conversation to the forefront in 2014.

Vhils

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We've shared a lot of Alexandre "Vhils" Farto's work on the site in the past, so it's dope to see him included in this list. The Portuguese street artist's carved portraits have been seen on so many streets around the world, and he has also worked with musicians like Buraka Som Sistema and U2 on stunning video projects. 

Watch the artist at work in the cool video below:

Gaia

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At only 26, we wouldn't be surprised if Gaia made a few more of these lists in the next few years. Already one of the "Most Influential Street Artists of All Time," the New York-based artist has been leaving his colorful and painterly murals around the world since 2007 and has had great shows and installations in Istanbul, Spoleto, Houston, London, and beyond. He collaborated with CYRCLE. this past summer on an incredible piece in Vienna, organized the Open Walls Baltimore street art festival with Nanook and tons of great artists, and somehow found time to create cool pieces on his own. In short, the guy's a beast.

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