Inti Castro aka Inti is a graffiti artist born in the port city of Valparaíso, Chile.

His name, translated into Incan means ‘Sun’. He began painting walls at around the age of thirteen and has not stopped since. Today he is one of the most recognized street artists globally. He usually paints murals on a gigantic scale, his works often take up whole sides of buildings. He has painted murals in several cities in Chile and worldwide and has participated in many international festivals dedicated to the culture of street and graffiti. He was also one of the organizers of the Graffiti festival in Valparaiso. Inti initially plied his trade spraying tags and letters, today he continues to use spray cans. He is recognized for his characters inspired by the Latin American syncretism of the mixture of the Spanish and indigenous heritage. These characters look like puppets and usually represent the human figure as well as animals. He is also part of a crew ’Stgo Under’ who he still occasionally paints with.

Street art Chile

Meet Inti (Inti Castro) and Cekis (Nelson Rivas), two main figures of street art in Chile. Between the influences of muralism in the late 60s (such as Brigada Ramona Parra) and New York graffiti, the two painters perform their art in Santiago de Chili which is often consdered as the new capital of street art.

With Myre (Nick Torgoff), a french artist who promote chilean and international street art in France, they talk about their work, their techniques and their message. Together they participated in the Biarritz Latin American festival and The “Tour 13” project which was the largest ephemeral group exhibition of Street Art ever made worldwide.

Neslon Rivas aka Cekis career as a visual artist began in the city streets of his native Santiago, Chile.

He started painting murals while in high school, during which he was intrinsically influenced by the New York graffiti culture and the socialist propaganda murals created during the heavily marked political stage in the 1980’s.Over time, his work inspired a young generation of artists who spent their early years banned from all public spaces during the military take over that presided over Chile for 17 years. His work transcended communities, helping to create a massive appeal for a new street culture in Chile.

In 2004, Nelson moved to New York, seeking to grow more comprehensively as an artist. Lack of access to public walls in New York, as compared with Chile, led him to move towards creating work in the studio. Despite the restriction, the experience has allowed him to broaden his technique and develop an experimental and investigative body.

Nick Torgoff was born in Chicago and began practicing graffiti around 1990 in Paris.
As a teenager, he painted on various public spaces, in several big cities throughout the world. During his first trip to Latin America in the early 2000s, he met the young emerging graffiti scene. This discovery definitely influenced his work, and made strong connections between his art inherited from the golden age of New York street art. Co-founder of the international Graffiti Festival “Kosmopolite”, Nick Torgoff is committed to the recognition of Graffiti Art. In his paintings and graffitis, he developed a universal geometrical language. He also produced several performances combining street art and audiovisual. With the AKRylonumérik collective, he invested the great hall of la Villette in Paris park to offer a monumental and artistic installation inviting the public to participate.He participated in the Tour 13 exhibition in Paris among a hundred street artists from around the world.