J.DEMSKY portfolio
J. Demsky (Elche, Spain, 1979)
Since the early 1990s, J. Demsky has been a pivotal voice in contemporary graffiti, advancing the alphabet into dynamic, abstract forms that bridge street, pop, and futuristic languages. His work spans over 50 countries, earning him international credibility and a role as a global ambassador among graffiti writers and urban artists.
Beyond the street, J. Demsky has collaborated with internationally recognized brands— Nike, Adidas, Ballantine’s, New Era, and Junya Watanabe, among others—without compromising the raw, experimental core of his practice.
What began as rapid aerosol gestures has evolved into richer explorations of color, form, and spatial awareness. On walls and canvases alike, J. Demsky constructs mental landscapes where error, speed, and glitch become visual vocabulary.
His fluid navigation between street art, design, digital media, and formal research positions him as a multidisciplinary creator, constantly expanding his visual universe, challenging boundaries, and opening new perspectives.
Start at the beginning, always at the beginning…
Primary colors as seeds of infinite worlds, glitch vibrations as new alphabets. J.Demsky opens perceptual doors, inviting us into a universe where speed, code, and chromatic rituals converge. A space where what cannot be imitated mutates endlessly, and where the beauty and the rawness coexist in perfect balance.
Speed as language
Speed becomes a central structure. It is not only about physical movement (bullet trains, skate ramps, racing circuits) but also an aesthetic condition: the blur, the glitch, the fragmented perception. Speed defines a new way of seeing the landscape — a moving, elusive scenery that only exists in the accelerated moment.
Infinite mutation and tactility
Although his universe may appear digital and algorithmic, J. Demsky’s work remains deeply physical and tactile. Layers of aerosol, precise lines, and controlled errors all arise from direct contact and hand-driven energy. Each piece acts as a living organism: constantly shifting, reconfiguring, and changing its skin, always searching for the impossible.
- Landscape, art, and architecture integrate the design of a space primarily conceived to develop creativity and the visual arts. In a unique natural context. The workshop is designed to leave a minimal footprint, both physically and ecologically.
Speculative systems and unregistered forms
His works operate as open systems, inviting the viewer to encounter not fi xed shapes but speculative entities. These structures absorb their environment and transform it, like visual echoes of a "space navigator." They feel like "unregistered objects," oscillating between physical presence and mental space, absorbing everything around them like a chromatic black hole.
DEMSKY x CASA AXIS , Valencia
PHASE AXIS, 2024
Aluminum composite panel (APC), and mirror metal effect holographic foil
350 x 140 x 100 cm
Odyssey — sculptural project with specific coordinates. The idea emerges from exploring the immensity of the ocean and the rigid forms of sculpture and material. It seeks to blur the boundaries between the object and its environment, creating a new space-time concept.
Sacred geometries and total chromaticism
Color serves as a fundamental code — the starting point for building limitless worlds. J. Demsky uses primary colors as towers of meaning, chromatic glitches, and almost mantra-like repetitions that become "sacred geometries repeating themselves." A visual symphony where each repetition is not redundant but a portal to new perceptual mutations.
A neo-futurist visual mythology
Ultimately, J. Demsky’s work proposes a new visual mythology: a hybrid code connecting graffiti, techno, manga, digital glitch, and speculative architecture. A universe where everything merges, nothing is completely readable, yet everything vibrates with a strong energy. A living system in continuous expansion, as emotional as it is algorithmic.
2025
SHOWS (selection)
LaurentMarthalerContemporary - BOLDER THAN BOLD: Explorations in the White Cube / Montreux, SW
2024
Galerie Bessaud - Untitled. - solo show / Paris, France
2023
LaurentMarthalerContemporary - INMERXMOVE - solo show / Montreux, SW
Kabutocho - TTT - group show / Tokyo, Japan
2022
Extend gallery - ***** **** - duo show / Brussels, Belgium
Method - INT. HYPNOSEES - solo show / Mumbai, India
2021
Ryan Joseph Gallery - TELETRANSPORTATION - duo show / Denver, US
Neofvtvro - ODISEA - solo show / Alicante, Spain
2020
Stolen Space - TVRBVLENCES - solo show / London, UK
2019
DELIMBO - PROTOCOLO VLTRAMETRICO - solo show / Seville-Madrid, Spain
ZERO - RAW:SPACE - solo show / Beijing, China
Zingaro - OJOSDEFUEGO - duo show / Tokyo, Japan
2018
Knew Conscious - OUTOFCONTROL - solo show / Denver, US
CLUSTER - VCTRX - solo show / Rome, Italy
2017
SCOPE - NEODYSSSEY - solo show / Miami, US
GR Gallery - OFF THE WALL - duo show / New York, US
Knew Conscious - RECONFIGURED - solo show / Denver, US
Bynight gallery - KROMACITY - group show / Paris, France
2016
CASO Contemporary Art Space Osaka - COLOR - group show / Osaka, Japan
Golden Hands Gallery - NEON COMPANY - group show / Hamburg, Germany
Toba Gallery - VNIVERSAL VNIVERSE - solo show / Mexico City, MX
Manege Museum - ARTMOSPHERE - Artfair / Moscow, Russia
2015
Anagra - MAGNETIC KIMURA - duo show / Tokyo, Japan
Montana Gallery Barcelona - ULTRASCOPE - UB group show / Barcelona, Spain
Galerie Zimmerling & Jungfleisch - VEYOND - solo show / Saarbrücken, Germany
2014
Kojimachi Gallery & Calmaart Artspace - VECTOUR#81 - duo show / Tokyo & Osaka, Japan
Mister Pink Gallery - ULTRADINAMICA - duo show / Valencia, Spain
1AM Gallery - A MAJOR MINORITY - group show / San Francisco, California
2013
We Are Void Gallery - HEXAHEDRON EXPONENTIELE - duo show / Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Oniwa Gallery & Badmotel - PLUS VLTRA - duo show / Tokyo, Japan & Bangkok, Thailand
Galerie Celal - VEGANZA - UB show / Paris, France
Backside Gallery - VNANIMVS - duo show / Marseille, France
2012
Vicious Gallery - MURCIELAGO - duo show / Hamburg, Germany
1AM Gallery - VENENO44 - UB show / Madrid, Spain
BIBLIOGRAPHY (Selected)
SAUVAGE 072/120 feat. J. Demsky — Sauvage Cinquième Édition. Brussels: Sauvage Cinquième Édition, 2022.
POV — IMOS & Mateo Cobos. Rome: Tramontana Magazine (self-published), 2022.
REproduction — Sat One; text by Georg Zolchow. Munich: Self-published, 2020.
What Do You Write? A Focus on Contemporary Stylewriting — Colab Gallery; curated by Stefan Winterle. Weil am Rhein, Germany: Colab Gallery, 2019.
The World Atlas of Street Art and Graffiti — Rafael Schacter; revised by Lachlan MacDowall; foreword by John Fekner. New Haven & London: Yale University Press, editions 2013 & 2023.
15 Minutes — Ilk & Keno (eds.). Paris: Pyramyd Éditions, 2013.
Alphabeatz: Le graffiti en toutes lettres — Woshe. Paris: Pyramyd, 2013.
Graffiti Burners — Björn Almqvist. Årsta (Sweden): Dokument Press, 2011.
VISION: The Black Book of Secrets and Tricks — Dems333; contributions by Felipe Pantone, Sozyone Gonzalez, Rosh333, Kiler, Daniel Muñoz “San”, Aigor, Sawe, KoolFunc’88. Valencia: Selfpublished, 2014.
HOGAR – The Posttraumatic Fanzine #2 — Octavi Serra (cover); print by John Trashkovsky. [City not specified]: Self-published, [year needed].
Urban Art Book — Spanish Graffiti Agency Plural. Madrid: Plural, 2009.
Colors Zoo — Courtin, Maxime & Forner Arin, Oscar (eds.). San Sebastián: Colors Zoo Publishing, 2005.
Representa 04: From the Street to the Museum — Bocos García, Iñaki; Collectif (eds.). San Sebastián: Colors Zoo, 2005.
Urban Discipline 2002: Graffiti-Art — Reisser, Mirko; Peters, Gerrit; & Zahlmann, Heiko (eds.). Hamburg: Getting-Up, 2002.
