Raymond Galle (born 24 September 1942 in Salin-de-Giraud, France) is a contemporary French painter and visual artist known for transforming everyday visual culture into poetic, introspective works. After completing a doctorate in sociology of work and spending years in urban planning and research, he devoted himself fully to art and writing from the mid-1980s onward.

Galle’s distinctive artistic technique centers on reclaimed poster surfaces often drawn from large-format commercial advertising posters. These multi-layered posters — originally designed to promote consumer products — become his primary support: he paints, collages, scrapes, sands, and selectively removes layers of paper and printed imagery to disrupt and recompose the original visuals. Through this process, he erases advertising text and logos and reconfigures the imagery to emphasize anonymous faces, figures, and abstract forms.

His work thus occupies a space between painting and collage, using acrylic paint, chalk, and mixed media on poster substrates to create singular compositions that both reveal and obscure the traces of their commercial origins. This technique allows Galle to subvert mass-produced imagery and explore deeper themes of identity, memory, and visual perception.