Arlin Graff
Arlin Graff (Tatuí, SP, Brazil, 1986) is a visual artist and muralist. His practice began in 1999, painting graffiti on freight trains in the countryside of São Paulo. Birds, present throughout his childhood, became the entry point for a wider language of fauna and nature in his work. He had no formal art training. His visual method was shaped in his father’s woodshop, where birdcages were built and the floor was covered in scraps. He turned those fragments into toys, taking objects apart to understand them and putting them back together as something new. The geometric deconstruction, fragmented forms and dynamic composition that define his work today come straight from that practice.
Later, a degree in industrial design (2007) gave structure to an instinct already formed. From graffiti came the scale, the color and the rhythm of the street. He builds animals and elements of nature where geometric precision meets organic energy. His Brazilian origins shape the palette and the fauna; his years in the United States introduced a tension between nature and technology, what he calls a synthetic nature, fragmented by the modern world. He has painted murals worldwide and collaborated with Nike, Netflix, Levi’s, Twitter, Facebook, Smirnoff, Nissan, Mercedes-Benz, BMW and Havaianas. His work spans large-scale murals, sculpture and canvas, and engages directly with urban space and local communities, extending art beyond the gallery.
In recent years he has returned to wood, building sculptures that fold painting and three-dimensionality back into the workshop he grew up in. In solo and group exhibitions, his work circles the same questions: how nature adapts to the city, how fragments hold together, how resilience looks at scale. For Graff, art reshapes not only the environment but how we see our place inside it.
Past examples of Arlin’s work include: 
spray paint/acrylic paint mural: Black Rhino
spray paint/acrylic paint mural: Sparrow