Career
Octavi Arrizabalaga (ARYZ) was born in 1988 in Palo Alto, California, and currently lives and works in Cardedeu. Like many artists of his generation, Arrizabalaga began painting graffiti around Barcelona, where in the early 2000s he became known as Aryz. Around 2007 he began his practice with extension poles and exterior acrylic paint on various surfaces in abandoned factories on the outskirts of Barcelona.
Art without borders
Morocco, Japan, France, the United Kingdom, Finland, Denmark, Poland, China, Madagascar and the United States are some of the countries where he has left his mark over the past decade. More recently, he has begun spending more time working in the studio, limiting the number of murals he produces. The studio allows him to calmly cook up concepts that the immediacy of the mural does not permit and to pursue trial-and-error experimentation.
