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Stinkfish

Stinkfish biography

Stinkfish is a Colombian street artist who recreates portraits from photographs as murals. These portraits of strangers are adorned with colourful psychedelic elements.

Stinkfish was born in Mexico; however, he spent his childhood in Colombia once his parents migrated there. Initially, he began wondering around the streets of Bogotá as a child, curious about the surroundings and the variety of people. His course was never fixed, and this often presented him an opportunity to meet different people, locations, and images. When he least expected it, he had joined a group of individuals with similar interests. This group of people was interested in painting the streets illegally by using a variety of street art tools.

Stinkfish initially began making stencils around the years 2000-2001. However, it was not until 2003, in Bogotá, that he created a very intricate street art piece. This image was created in remembrance for John F. Kennedy’s murder. The artwork was that of John F. Kennedy Jr. saluting the corpse of his father. He painted the piece over

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Artist Feature: Stinkfish

“Graffiti is vandalism, destruction, revolution, freedom, and love. My life revolves almost entirely around graffiti.” – Stinkfish

I have always used “street art” as an umbrella term for any art form that is in a public space; murals, sculpture, wheat-pasting, yarn bombing, stencil-graffiti… However, there is a certain sector of street artists that sometimes doesn’t prefer to be considered artists, but graffitists. Stinkfish is a graffitist. When asked about what he considers himself, he explains, “I feel comfortable working for the concept of graffiti, basically by the principles of independence, anonymity, freedom and illegality… I believe in doing what I like out of conviction, without permission. Doing what I wish to do with what I have at hand in the place I want and when I want to, without thinking about health insurance, a salary or a pat on the back.”

Despite this possible dichotomy between street art and graffiti, neither art form should be considered more culturally valid than the other. I’ve heard t

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Stinkfish

Stinkfish is Mexico born and Columbia raised street artist. Inspired by the colourful streets in Bogotá he is best known for carrying his camera wherever he goes. His work entails how he is intrigued by the uniqueness of people, by taking random photographs of unknown people and uses them to create stencils into wonderfully, colourful mural artworks. Stinkfish’s works are featured as a part of the opening of URBAN NATION Museum in 2017.

This anonymous street artist began tagging his name as Stink since he was 16 or 17. Whether it was on a notebook, a school desk, the most abused space of them all ‘the bathrooms’, or any other spot that found his calling. A few years later, without any particular reason, he added ‘fish’ to his tag and the legend Stinkfish was born. Together with other like-minded artist they criticize the commercialization of graffiti by and while they are doing it. For him the street is a space for coexisting and sharing, believing it is within the human nature to want to leave their mark somewhere. He paints strangers’ portraits using bright colours g