Mono Sourcil defines herself as a muralist but she is also known to do wheatpastes and hand-drawn stickers. For more information on the artist and for many more photos than what I have featured here, check out her personal, Instagram and Facebook pages.

Mono Sourcil se définit comme muraliste, mais elle s’affiche dans nos rues aussi via ses collages et ses stickers dessinés à la main. Pour plus d’information sur l’artiste et pour plus de photos que ce qui se trouve dans la galerie-photo ci-dessous, voir ses pages personnelle, Instagram et Facebook.

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Painted / peint

In an abandoned building.

Off Under Pressure 2025.

Mono Sourcil’s contribution to the prod put together to save the Projet 45 skatepark.

On bridge pillar.

A mural in the fashion district.

At the Papineau legal graffiti wall.

In the Plateau.

For the 2023 edition of the Under Pressure Festival.

For Breaking Walls / Meeting Of Styles.

In Nouveau Rosemont.

In a Hochelaga alley.

A mural in Hochelaga.

On the Rude crew wall for the 2021 edition of Canettes de Ruelle. This is actually the second version of this piece, see the first one below.

On the Rude crew wall for the 2021 edition of Canettes de Ruelle.

In Hochelaga.

For the 2020 edition of Mural.

In Petite-Patrie.

Under an overpass.

In a Rosemont alley.

Trackside.

With Hsix on letters, under a bridge.

First attempt at a realistic piece, from a K6A & friends production in the South West.

For the 2019 edition of Canettes de Ruelle.

In the Plateau. See below for close-ups.

In the Plateau, close up 1/3. Scroll up for full wall.

In the Plateau, close up 2/3. Scroll up for full wall.

In the Plateau, close up 3/3. Scroll up for full wall.

A small piece off Under Pressure 2019.

In an abandoned warehouse.

In an abandoned warehouse.

Mural in the McGill ghetto.

On a public piano (in-progress, unfinished in this shot). See opposite side below.

On a public piano (in-progress, unfinished in this shot). See opposite side above.

Mono Sourcil in Wynwood Miami during the 2018 edition of Art Basel.

In Rosemont.

Next to Axe Lalime‘s iconic bandaid logo, in the South West.

For the Ru street festival on Mont-Royal.

In a Plateau alley. See below for close-ups of the individual sides.

In a Plateau alley, close-up on one half of the above wall.

In a Plateau alley, close-up on the other half of the above wall.

Contribution to the Estival de Canes 2018. Letters beneath her character are by Hsix.

For the 2018 edition of MTL En Arts (1/6).

For the 2018 edition of MTL En Arts (2/6).

For the 2018 edition of MTL En Arts (3/6).

For the 2018 edition of MTL En Arts (4/6).

For the 2018 edition of MTL En Arts (5/6).

For the 2018 edition of MTL En Arts (6/6).

Contribution to a K6A & friends production in the South West.

In a Rosemont alley.

For the Chats de Ruelle Festival (Canettes de Ruelle 2017).

Mono Sourcil’s super long mural for the 2017 edition of Mural Festival. See next for close-ups in three segments.

Segment 1/3 of Mono Sourcil’s mural super long mural for the 2017 edition of Mural Festival.

Segment 2/3 of Mono Sourcil’s mural super long mural for the 2017 edition of Mural Festival.

Segment 3/3 of Mono Sourcil’s mural super long mural for the 2017 edition of Mural Festival.

On the side wall of a Plateau café.

On the front wall of the same café as above.

For the 2016 edition of the Under Pressure Festival.

Mono Sourcil (right) and Wzrds Gng (left) in a Mile end alley.

In Mile End.

In Mile End. Visible top corner is a bit from the Wzrds Gng.

In the Plateau.

On a garage door in the Plateau.

In Hochelaga.

In Hochelaga.

In a Hochelaga alley.

In a Rosemont alley.

In the back of an industrial building in Rosemont.

Germ Dee (top) and Mono Sourcil (bottom) in Petite-Patrie.

Mono Sourcil (left) and Hsix (right letters) in a Hochelaga back alley.

For the 2016 International Percussion Festival.

4U crew triptych for Plaza Walls featuring Germ Dee (left), Tiburón (centre) and Mono Sourcil (right).

The Wzrds Gng (left), Mono Sourcil (centre) and Germ Dee (right) at a Hochelaga skateboard pipe.

Back of information board for the 2016 edition of Mural Festival.

“Your Face Here” board for the 2016 edition of Mural Festival.

On a sidewalk panel on Amherst for the 2016 edition of the MTL En Arts festival.

For the 2017 edition of MTL En Arts (angle 1/2, see below).

For the 2017 edition of MTL En Arts (angle 2/2, see above).

For the 2015 Osheaga festival (work-in-progress almost finished).

In Parc des Royaux. See next two photos for close-ups.

In Parc des Royaux, detail 1/2.

In Parc des Royaux, detail 2/2.

Nybar letters on a Mono Sourcil mural in Hochelaga.

Contribution to the 2015 edition of the Under Pressure Festival.

On Boisbriand container, done during the 2014 edition of the Under Pressure Festival.

Mono Sourcil (left) and Futur Lasor Now (right) for the 2014 edition of the Under Pressure Festival, Ste-Catherine x Hotel de Ville.

Turtle Caps (left), Mono Sourcil (centre), Labrona (right) for the 2014 edition of the Under Pressure Festival, Ste-Catherine x Hotel de Ville.

Turtle Caps (left), Mono Sourcil (centre), Labrona (right) for the 2014 edition of the Under Pressure Festival, Ste-Catherine x Hotel de Ville.

Mono Sourcil, Labrona, Turtle Caps, Alex Produkt for the 2014 edition of the Under Pressure Festival, Ste-Catherine x Hotel de Ville.

In Hochelaga, near the legal graffiti tunnel on de Rouen.

Mono Sourcil for the 2016 Amalgam Festival in Sherbrooke (3 sides of the same bridge pillar).

Mono Sourcil for the 2016 Amalgam Festival in Sherbrooke.

On Plaza St-Hubert post (2 sides shown).

An old one found under a bridge.

Under bridge, next to train tracks.

In an empty Hochelaga lot.

In an abandoned lot in Eastern Montreal.

In an abandoned lot in Eastern Montreal.

In an abandoned lot in Eastern Montreal.

This piece in a Hochelaga staircase was rediscovered when construction re-exposed the wall on which it was painted.

On a Canada Malting Co silo.

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Sidewalk pieces for Mural Festival 2024

Mono Sourcil was the artist in charge of the sidewalk pieces for the 2024 edition of Mural Festival.

Mono Sourcil était l’artiste contribuant les pièces de trottoir pour l’édition 2024 du Festival Mural.

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Wheatpastes, paste-ups / collages

In the Plateau.

A Small paste-up in Plateau End.

A small paste-up in the Plateau.

A small paste-up in the Plateau.

A small paste-up in the Plateau.

A small paste-up in the Plateau.

A small paste-up in the Plateau.

In the Plateau.

Set of wheatpastes for the 2018 edition of the Under Pressure Festival.

For the 2017 edition of the Under Pressure Festival.

For the 2017 edition of the Under Pressure Festival.

With Labrona on the right, in the Quartier Latin.

In the Quartier Latin.

With Labrona below, in Centre-sud.

In Hochelaga.

In the Quartier des Spectacles.

Wheatpaste on the boarded up Club Sandwich for the 2016 edition of the MTL En Arts festival.

In Hochelaga.

Labrona (left) and Mono Sourcil (right) next to UQAM.

Labrona (left) and Mono Sourcil (right) in the village.

Labrona (left) and Mono Sourcil (right) in Centre Sud.

Labrona (left) and Mono Sourcil (right) in the same Centre-Sud spot as above but about a year later.

Mono Sourcil (left) and Labrona (right) in Hochelaga.

Mono Sourcil (top) and Labrona (bottom) downtown.

Wheatpaste found on Ontario.

Mono Sourcil (left) and Labrona (right) on Clark.

Mono Sourcil (left) and Labrona (right) wheatpastes in the Quartier des spectacles.

Labrona (top) and Mono Sourcil (bottom) wheatpastes on a Plateau door.

Mono Sourcil (top right), Labrona (bottom) and Scaner (centre left) wheatpastes on door in the alley between St-Laurent and Clark. Also visible in the top left corner is a sticker for Decolonizing Street Art.

Wheatpastes by Labrona (left) and Mono Sourcil (right) with stickers by Graffiti Knight (top left), Turtle Caps (in yellow) and Il Flatcha (two in purple) at the top, in the Plateau.

Mono Sourcil (top) and Labrona (bottom) plus drawing by Cryote who at the time was in the Wzrds Gng.

Mono Sourcil (left) and Labrona (right) wheatpastes in Centre-Sud.

A small paste-up.

A small paste-up.

A small paste-up.

A small paste-up.

A small paste-up.

A small paste-up.

Small hand-drawn paste-up.

Small hand-drawn paste-up.

Small hand-drawn paste-up.

Paste-up.

Smaller hand-drawn paste-up.

Paste-ups.

Paste-up.

Paste-up.

Paste-up.

Paste-up.

Paste-up.

Paste-up.

Paste-up.

Paste-up.

Paste-up.

Small paste-up.

Small paste-up.

Small paste-up.

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Cardboard paste-ups / collages-carton

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stickers

There are a lot of stickers in this photo gallery, but this is just a sample of what is out there.

Il y a un très grand nombre de stickers dans la galerie-photo ci-dessous, mais ce n’est qu’une fraction de ce qu’on peut trouver dans les rues de Montréal.

Left: Mono Sourcil at the bottom but perhaps not at the top.
Right: larger sticker

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Figurative throws and tags

Next to Germ Dee on the right in a Plateau alley.

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letter tags and throws

Hollows and tags by Mono Sourcil and Honey.

Kat, an activist for animal rights, started pasting posters in the streets and alleys of Montreal in 2014, a few years after arriving here from her native France. Her recurring theme of anthropomorphic creatures with animal masks quickly got her noticed by local fans of street art. Her characters are often held captive by chains or strange contraptions, or are placed behind bars – in the image, or literally pasted behind the bars of alley windows and doors. The artist explains her choice of iconography in these words: “On one side we are all hiding behind a mask when we are in society and choosing what we want to show from ourselves to others. Sometimes it’s to protect ourselves from not showing emotions to look stronger or just to keep safe in our secret garden. On the other aspect of the human being, we all have a connection with an animal. It can be a physical or similar personality, an attraction or an aversion, a fear…”

Since the end of 2016 Kat has broaden the range of social issues tackled in her art, but she has also more or less taken a break from working in the streets. The work shown in the gallery below therefore mostly spans the years 2014-2016. For more information on the artist, and to see what she has been up to since 2016, check out www.katstreetart.com as well as her Instagram page.

L’artiste d’origine française Kat s’est mise aux collages dans les rues et ruelles de Montréal en 2014, quelques années après son arrivée à Montréal. Elle s’est immédiatement fait remarquer par les amateurs de street art pour son thème récurrent, des créatures anthropomorphiques portant masques d’animaux. Ses personnages sont souvent prisonniers de chaines ou se trouvent derrière des barreaux (dans l’image ou littéralement derrière de vrais barreaux de fenêtres et portes de ruelles). L’artiste, qui a à coeur la lutte contre la cruauté envers les animaux, explique ainsi ses choix iconographiques (ma traduction): “D’abord, nous portons tous un masque lorsqu’en société. Nous choisissons ainsi quelle facette de notre personnalité nous désirons présenter aux autres. Nous agissons ainsi par protection, pour avoir l’air plus fort, pour se sentir plus sécure. De plus, chacun de nous a une certaine connection avec un animal. Cette connection peut être due à une ressemblance physique ou de personalité, ou le fruit d’une attirance ou répulsion envers l’animal en question.”

Depuis la fin de 2016 Kat a ajouté quelques causes sociales à son art, mais elle a aussi à toutes fins pratiques cessé d’exposer dans la rue. Les oeuvres présentées dans la gallerie ci-dessous datent en conséquence majoritairement de la période 2014-2016. Pour plus d’information sur l’artiste, ou pour voir son travail en studio depuis 2016, vous êtes invités à jeter un coup d’oeil à www.katstreetart.com ainsi qu’à sa page Instagram.

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pasted work

Paste-up off the 2025 edition of Mural Festival.

Paste-up off the 2025 edition of Mural Festival.

Paste-up off the 2025 edition of Mural Festival.

On one of the info boards for the 2019 edition of Mural Festival.

Posters for the 2018 edition of the Under Pressure Festival. See below for close-ups.

Close-up of one of the posters for the 2018 edition of the Under Pressure Festival.

Close-up of one of the posters for the 2018 edition of the Under Pressure Festival.

In a Plateau alley.

In a Plateau alley. Notice the stitch around the mouth, the cuts and the fake blood.

In a Plateau alley.

In a Plateau alley.

In the Plateau.

In the Plateau.

In Plateau End.

In Mile End.

In the alley between St-Laurent and Clark.

In the alley between St-Laurent and Clark.

In the alley between St-Laurent and Clark.

In the alley between St-Laurent and Clark.

Near Clark

In the alley between St-Laurent and Clark.

In the alley between St-Laurent and Clark.

In the alley between St-Laurent and Clark.

Well hidden at the back of a narrow dead-end alley.

On an abandoned Mile End building.

In the alley between St-Laurent and Clark.

Near St-Laurent.

In the alley between St-Laurent and Clark.

In an alley off Mont-Royal. The paste-up on the right is by Swarm.

At the back of the LNDMRK offices.

In the alley between St-Laurent and Clark.

In the alley between St-Laurent and Clark.

In the alley between St-Laurent and Clark.

In the alley between St-Laurent and Clark.

On the George General d’Auto Reparation abandoned garage.

On St-Dominique.

On the George General d’Auto Reparation abandoned garage.

In the alley between St-Laurent and Clark.

In Parc des Amériques. Also visible in the bottom left corner is a paste-up by ROC514 with Cup O’Joe.

Collaboration between Kat (left) and Labrona (right) found in Centre-Sud.

Collaboration between Kat (left) and Labrona (right) found in Centre-Sud.

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painted work

Kat’s contribution to the 2016 edition of the Under Pressure Festival. Unlike most of Kat’s work, this piece was all painted on location.

Official work on St-Laurent. See below for a different angle.

Official work on St-Laurent. See above it for a different angle.

More from the above official project on St-Laurent.

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installation

Kat created a selfie booth/installation for the 2016 edition of Mural Festival with the aim of bringing awareness to animal rights.

Pour l’édition 2016 du Festival Mural Kat a créé une installation dans le but de sensibiliser les visiteurs au sort des animaux en captivité.

Lily Luciole is a Parisian artist who was quite active in Montreal until she returned to Paris in the middle of 2016. Her main medium was wheatpasting. She is a socially and politically conscious artist who has pasted for OffmuralEs and alongside other socio-politically involved artists and collectives such as Swarm, Zola and the Decolonizing Street Art movement.

For more information on the artist, and for many more photos than what is found in the image gallery below, check out Lilyluciole.com as well as her Facebook, Flickr and Tumblr pages.

Lily Luciole est une artiste Parisienne ayant été très active dans les rues de Montréal jusqu’à son retour en France en 2016. Elle s’est exprimée dans les rues de notre ville principalement via ses collages. Elle est très engagée socialement et politiquement, ayant collé pour OffmuralEs ou aux côtés d’autres artistes et collectifs engagés tels que Swarm, Zola et le mouvement Decolonizing Street Art.

Pour plus d’information sur cette artiste, et pour beaucoup plus de photos que ce qui est présenté dans la galerie ci-dessous, vous êtes invités à jeter un coup d’oeil à Lilyluciole.com ou à ses pages Facebook, Flickr et Tumblr.

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A wheatpaste with wool from 2019.

A wheatpaste with wool from 2019.

Contribution to the Cabane à sucre secret gallery.

Poster in Mile End.

Poster in the alley between St-Laurent and Clark.

Poster in Mile End.

Poster in Mile End.

Large poster in Mile End.

Wheatpaste found on Clark. Also partly visible: Mimi for OffmuralEs (bottom left) and Baubô (right).

Wheatpaste found on one of St-Laurent’s many abandoned businesses. Stickers centre right to bottom right are by someone representing Decolonizing Street Art, Waxhead and ROC514.

Wheatpastes and posters by Lily Luciole (left), Decolonizing Street Art (flag) and 2U4U ByU (right).

Turtle Caps (painted) and Lily Luciole (pasted birds) in abandoned church; photo © Lily Luciole.

Collaboration with Swarm in the alley between St-Laurent and Clark.

Collaboration with Swarm in Petite-Patrie.

This wheatpaste was found on De Gaspé.

Lily Luciole and Swarm collaboration wheatpaste for OffmuralEs.

This wheatpaste was found on Duluth.

Poster found in Hochelaga.

Poster found in Hochelaga.

What’s left of this wheatpaste was found on Laurier.

In the alley between St-Laurent and Clark. Stickers top left are by Tik Tok and Cif.

This was found on St-Denis but other copies were found elsewhere.

On St-Laurent door. The background is wallpaper created by Turtle Caps.

Another door on St-Laurent. This one has paste-ups by Swarm (and a lot of tags) over it. Paste-up in bottom right corner is by ROC514.

Nature is taking over this one found in a Mile End alley.

Alex Produkt’s main means of expression on the streets of Montreal is painting and drawing. He’s also pasted some of his work, but I’ve unfortunately never been able to photograph any of it. There are therefore no wheatpastes in the gallery below. He shines on canvas even more than he does on city walls, a rare thing among our street artists in my opinion. Actually, I love his studio work so much, I can only imagine what he could come up with if he was given a big wall and enough time to cover it with scenes and characters from his crazy imagination. Meanwhile, learn more on the artist and check out his studio work on his Facebook, Instagram (Alex Produkt) and Instagram (Ricky Tuesday) pages. See him at work in “End Orphans”, a 10-minute short film directed in 2014 by Ian lagarde.

Dans les rues et ruelles de Montréal, Alex Produkt crée surtout des pièces murales et des dessins. Il a aussi pratiqué le collage, mais je n’ai pas encore eu la chance de prendre une de ses oeuvres collées en photo, ce qui explique l’absence de collage dans la galerie ci-dessous. Il brille encore plus sur canevas que sur les murs de notre ville, un phénomène rare parmi nos artistes street selon moi. En fait, son travail en studio me fascine tellement que je ne peux qu’imaginer ce qu’il en serait si on lui donnait un grand mur et assez de temps pour le couvrir de scènes et personnages issus de son imagination. D’ici là, vous pouvez en apprendre un peu sur l’artiste et voir de quoi il est capable sur toile en visitant ses pages Facebook, Instagram (Alex Produkt) et Instagram (Ricky Tuesday). Vous pouvez aussi le voir à l’oeuvre dans “End Orphans”, un cours film réalisé par Ian Lagarde en 2014.

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In Mile End.

Contribution to the 2019 edition of the Under Pressure Festival.

On a Mile End alley door.

For the 2018 edition of the Under Pressure Festival.

On a Plateau End alley door.

In a Mile End alley.

Semi-official contribution to the 2014 edition of Mural Festival, in narrow alley behind Duluth. Unfortunately this piece was painted over by the owner of the wall within a month or two of its creation.

Contribution to a Chromatic block party.

In St-Henri.

Contribution to the Cabane à sucre secret gallery (sorry, I didn’t manage to get a great shot of this). Also visible top left: Citizan.

Produkt (left) and Tyler K Rauman (right) for the 2014 edition of the Under Pressure Festival.

From left to right: Mono Sourcil, Labrona, Turtle Caps, Produkt. For the 2014 edition of the Under Pressure Festival.

Contribution to the 2015 edition of the Under Pressure Festival.

Labrona (top and bottom centre), Gawd (bottom right) and Produkt (bottom left) in alley off St-Denis. See close-up of Produkt’s contribution next.

Detail of above mural showing Produkt’s contribution.

In alley between St-Laurent and Clark, near Fairmount. Blue paste-up in the top right corner is by Pnda.

Produkt (white bovine head in top half), Rage5 (bottom right wheatpaste), Waxhead (bottom left drawing) as well as piece by unknown artist (centre left) and lots of tags. In alley between St-Laurent and Clark.

Produkt (top half), Labrona (bottom half) and a quickie by Snail from the WC Crew in the top left corner.

Produkt (left) and Labrona (right).

Produkt’s contributions (in white/blue) to this door are surrounded by pieces from Labrona (bottom), Other (top right), Gawd (centre left) and unidentified artist (top left).

Produkt (centre creature plus text) and Meat (little pink worm).

Produkt (top half) with Cryote (bottom left) and, presumably, Waxhead (bottom right).

In alley between St-Laurent and Clark.

Produkt (main piece in white/blue) and unidentified artist (bottom right) in alley between St-Laurent and Clark.

In a Mile End alley.

Produkt (in white/blue plus text above) and unidentified artist (all white) in alley between St-Laurent and Clark.

Back of information panel for the 2015 edition of Mural Festival.

Back of information panel for the 2016 edition of Mural Festival.

For the 2017 edition of MTL En Arts.

In Mile End.

In Mile-Ex.

Echoes of what once was, on Beaubien.

Zola is one of Montreal’s most politically and socially involved artists. She describes her art as “Anti-oppressive street art”. She has been involved in the Decolonizing Street Art convergence of artists and in OffmuralEs, a collective aiming to offer a non-corporate alternative to the Mural Festival. She was voted by Complex as one of the 15 Emerging Street Artists to Watch in 2015 (that’s not just in Montreal but internationally).

For more information on Zola, see this interview given to Complex (in English) and this interview published in La Presse (in French), or visit her Facebook and Tumblr pages. Photos of her work, including a lot of off-street creations, are up on Instagram. She sells stickers, patches, posters, zines, t-shirts, etc through Storenvy.

Zola est une des artistes les plus politiquement et socialement engagé.e.s à Montréal. Elle décrit son art comme étant du “street art anti-oppression”. Elle est impliquée dans la convergence d’artistes Decolonizing Street Art ainsi que dans OffmuralEs qui propose une alternative non-commerciale au Festival Mural. Elle a été votée parmi les 15 artistes émergents à surveiller en 2015 par Complex (pas seulement à Montréal, mais internationalement).

Pour plus d’information sur Zola, lire cette entrevue (en français) publiée dans La Presse et cette entrevue (en anglais) donnée à Complex, ou visitez ses pages Facebook et Tumblr. Des photos de son art, incluant beaucoup de créations off-street sont disponibles sur Instagram. Zola vend des autocollants, patches, affiches, zines, t-shirts, etc via Storenvy.

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painted / peint

For the 2025 edition of Canettes de Ruelle.

Zola and friends for the 2023 edition of Canettes de Ruelle.

For the 2022 edition of Canettes de Ruelle, with a piece by Collages Féminicides Montréal on the door.

For the 2021 edition of Canettes de Ruelle.

For the 2020 edition of Canettes de Ruelle.

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wheatpastes / collages

Tribute to Auntie Janet in Hochelaga.

A smaller version of the above.

After contributing this garage door to the 2020 edition of Canettes de Ruelle (see pre-vandalism shot at the bottom of this page), someone who disapproved with her anti-police message vandalised it, calling her a ‘cretin’. Instead of ‘fixing’ the work, Zola retaliated by wheatpasting over the vandalism and hijacking the vandal’s work to her benefit.

For the 2020 edition of Canettes de Ruelle.

With Swarm on the left.

Collaboration with Swarm.

A cheeky one…

Probably Zola’s smallest wheatpaste!

This photo © Zola

Skull on the right is by Rey Midax.

Collaboration between Swarm (portal) and Zola (person).

Another collaboration with Swarm (slightly damaged in this shot). A sticker variation of this piece also exists, scroll down to the stickers section.

Also visible top right: Stela

Also visible bottom left: Stela; this photo © Zola

Underneath balcony of industrial office building.

This photo © Zola

Also visible, stickers for Decolonizing Street Art and by Waxhead, Stela, Tik Tok, ROC514

In alley between St-Laurent and Clark.

Also visible, paste-ups by Red Bandit (beneath Zola) and Meat (bottom).

This photo © Zola

This photo © Zola

This photo © Zola

This photo © Zola

Zola for OffmuralEs.

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stickers / autocollants

This one’s a holographic sticker.

Collaboration with Swarm.

Collaboration with Swarm. This design originally existed as a wheatpaste (scroll up this gallery to view).

This one is presumed to be from Zola.

Zola, Riot Apologist.

Decolonizing Street Art stickers distributed by Zola.