Thoma VUILLE alias M CHAT pronounced by default Monsieur Chat, is a Franco-Swiss painter with an urban art background. Born in Boudry, Switzerland, on July 16, 1977, he is famous for the M. CHAT graphic series, depicting a yellow feline with a broad smile.

Thoma VUILLE (real name) began painting with acrylics at the age of 15, in homage to his grandfather, a house painter. After graduating with a professional degree in civil engineering, the street-artist studied for 7 years at the Orleans School of Fine Arts.

It was during his studies that he imagined M.Chat, a yellow-orange cat with a full smile, painted in acrylic on the walls of his student town after a little girl had drawn one in a school studio. His aim was philosophical: “to bring humanity and love to the city: Orléans was a rather grey city, and we needed a bit of sunshine” in the city of Joan of Arc. He went on to import his cat all over France, including Tours, Nantes, Saint-Etienne and Paris. His dazzling fame soon spread around the world, with paintings in New York, Vienna, London, Hong Kong, Amsterdam and Geneva…