KIN (Barcelona, 1981) is a Spanish creative Director and street artist residing in Los Angeles.

“Throughout his career, Kin has used various tags. Early on, he went by ‘Maus’ in Barcelona and ‘Liris’ in Holland. Upon moving to Miami, he established his own startup, AkimGraff, to expand his artistic endeavors across the state.”

His works and projects have been presented across the globe in places such as France, Netherland, Italy, Morocco, Miami, Chicago, and Los Angeles.

His primary mediums are murals and paintings. Through mixing the techniques and his experience in graphic arts with performance and action painting, KIN’s art yields on dynamic sites and movement to produce his large-scale works worldwide. KIN has drawn inspiration through his interpretation of design and many of the places he has visited to create his graffiti concept of realism and expressionism. Aside from leading graphic design teams associated with Real Estate, and also as Creative Director of MTM Watch in LA and has applied an eclectic graphic approach as to where he doesn’t allow the background to be secondary, it is treated in-depth as the whole of the painting. It is when he becomes established in the USA, between Los Angeles and Miami that his work shifts to fusing Miami’s glow with Los Angeles’s ferocity, exploring new chromatic possibilities that he combines with more abstract forms into his figurative works.

He is the co-founder of a non-profit art therapy organization “Holistic Kids Foundation” while being an Art Therapist, he uses Chromotherapy to facilitate children’s release of emotional states and internal blockage.

ARTIST’S STATEMENT

Caps, markers, and cans were the tools that he switched from the pens and brushes a while ago. Shifting his perspective of the art world and transforming brick walls into endless canvases.

Inspired from the Design and the open places, KIN Create a new concept of the graffiti, It starting mixed more styles. KIN going so fair that the templates and mix a lot of material of design, not usually in the art, with the graffiti concept. The design is a concept of the piece, with the new technology of the graphic design, leaving the piece fresh and floating in a new concept, the background of the piece not is secondary, it doesn’t a depth if not a complement that without belittle the artwork, gives more force as a whole.

The last series of KIN is an introspection of experiences in Miami and the travels from USA and Europe, a really deep of the vision about a reflection of the values at this society itself and his origins as graffiti artist: “On the one hand, a very precious hyperrealistic art, and on the other the graffiti vandal art.