Artists
Big Wall Big Dreams 2026
Alex Maksiov paints large-scale murals and 3D anamorphic street art that turn walls and pavement into something you can step into. He’s shown at more than 100 festivals in more than 30 countries. If you’ve walked his 3D stairs for METRO, you already know.
Anat is a self-taught, Houston-based artist who travels the world to paint murals and street art. Her work is on highways, bridges, schools and churches across the city, and she received a 2025 Jones Artist Award.
Binho is a pioneer of Brazilian street art. He curates the International Biennial of Graffiti Fine Art and runs the Open Air Museum of Urban Art in São Paulo. He’s painted with Big Walls Big Dreams since it started in Miami.
Britt Paints A Lot (Brittany Johnson) is an Austin muralist known for vibrant, distinctive portraits of women. She blends realism with the expressive color of her oil painting background.
Bruno Smoky is a Brazilian-born muralist based in Barrie, Ontario, with more than 23 years of turning public space into large-scale stories. He came out of graffiti, and his work pairs social consciousness with richly detailed, surreal scenes.
Cease Martinez is a Houston native and self-taught artist who’s been painting professionally since the mid-90s. He’s best known for his realism and airbrush work. He grew up right here in East Aldine.
Coes is a Colombian artist with more than 10 years in urban art and muralism. He works in spray and water-based paint, chasing emotional and spiritual themes with powerful composition and high contrast.
Erik Del Rio was born in Houston and started making art at 5. Thirty-four years of painting later, he’s still one of the originators and innovators of Houston’s graffiti scene.
Congo is a Peruvian artist based in Michigan with more than 14 years painting internationally. He started with graffiti in Lima and now merges nature with the city through vibrant color and huge, macro-scale compositions.
Drew Merritt is an American painter and muralist known for vivid realism that blends classical style with contemporary themes. He came up as a graffiti writer in New Mexico and has painted for Tesla, Adidas, Converse and Virgin Hotels.
Gabriel Prusmack is a Galveston graffiti artist who’s all about high color, high contrast and nature. His walls are made to feel like being a kid again.
Galveston’s Justin Lopez paints with deep color, dramatic lighting and strong imagery. Storytelling drives all of it, and his work sticks with you after you walk away.
MrKas is a Portuguese street artist with more than 25 years in urban art. His large-scale murals blend realism with contemporary street art, in vibrant color, and dig into emotion, cultural identity and local tradition.
Rafique is a contemporary visual artist from Ponce, Puerto Rico, whose practice centers on muralism and graphic art. He reimagines ancestral Taíno culture for today’s public spaces. One of his walls in San Germán covers 15,000 square feet.
Rahmaan Statik grew up on Chicago’s South Side and has spent his career making aerosol murals legit, mixing raw graffiti energy with the technique he picked up at the American Academy of Art. He co-founded the R.K. Design mural collective and has painted for Coca-Cola, Toyota and Red Bull.
Space City Art Kreations is Mike and Sonia, a Houston muralist duo with roots in graffiti and a love for loud, vibrant color. Blank walls don’t stay blank around them.
Tra’ Slaughter is a Houston artist and muralist whose public work brings bold imagery and storytelling to the city’s neighborhoods. He’s been painting walls in and around Houston since 2016.
Usagi Wasabi (Wendy Hale) is a self-taught illustrator and muralist from Houston, now based in Virginia. She paints bold, colorful animals and nature scenes, including two murals for the Houston Zoo.
Venazir is a multi-awarded Filipina muralist and visual anthropreneur. She weaves stories from her ancestral lineage and ties that cultural memory to diaspora and multicultural communities.
Brian Wentworth, aka Wentpaint, is a Connecticut artist and illustrator with more than 20 years of drawing and painting behind him. He’s spent more than a decade on large-scale murals across the US and abroad, in a realistic style that rewards a closer look.
Zoinky was born in Honolulu and has painted murals everywhere from the UK to Australia. Bright, bold color is his signature, and it’s impossible to miss.