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2025

• *KNOTENPUNKT is Germany’s Group  exhibition , with  Affenfaust Gallery , Hamburg Germany, 2025 
• “Street Scripts” Duo exhibition Rafael Sliks / Latlas – Galerie Polomarco , Swizerland

• *Project Urbanblock collection Miami 2024
• *Solo exhibition in Urbanartfair paris 2024 
• *collabo Board  with Primitive and Tiago Lemos , Los Angeles USA. 2024 
• *Group show , Light Vibrations , Singapore , with Cityoftalents and Allaboutgallery . 2024 
• *Group show , Sonic Colors – With Galerie Caroline Canon , Bordeuax, France 2024 
• Group show , REVVV 
• “Heart of city “ with Allabout Gallery , Singapore 2024 
• *Group exhibition “In Between” With HelloGallery , Tokyo japan 2024

2023

• “Art Sample” Group Show with H.D Galerie / Paris , France
• Tram Art with Zoo Art Show / Lyon , France
• Panel for Peinture Fraiche Festival / Lyon , France
• “Plumes Occidentales” with Idroom Geneva Gallery / Switzerland
• Residence for Mausa Museum / Strasbourg , France
• Commision for Casio Paris with GraffitiartMagazine / Paris , France
• “Mixed Starter vol 5 with 44309 Gallery / Germany
• “PopStreet “Group Exhibition with Hidden Champion  and Gallery And Collection Official  / Tokyo , Japan

2022

• Art Miami Fair with Markowicz Fine Art Gallery and Olea / Miami , Usa
• Painting on the side of a building with Nalata Festival / Sao Paulo
• Lausane Art Fair with Orlinda Gallery / Mulhouse , France
• “Revvv” Group Show with All About Art Gallery / Singapore
• “Reopening” Group Show with Outsiders Gallery / Rouen , France
• Commision Canvas for Collectors with Artcan Gallery / Marseille , France
• Mural for Zoo Art Show / Lyon , France
• Mural with Island Japan / Atami Japan
• “Volátil” Solo Show with Block House Gallery and IslandJapan / Tokyo , Japan
• “ In Our Nature ” Solo Show with Ground Effect Gallery / Paris
• “The Eye of Tiger“ Group Show with 571 Artspace Gallery curated by Jean Claude for City of Talents / China
• Group Exhibition with Hidden Champion and Gallery Container , Fukuoka , Japan

2021

• Group Show with And Collection Official / Tokyo , Japan
• “Pop & Street” Group show , Hidden Champion /  Jinkinoko and And collection Official / Tokyo , Japan
• “Symbiotic” Solo Show with Twentycinco Gallery / Hong Kong
• Start Strasbourg fair with Orlinda Gallery / Mulhouse , France
• Start Strasbourg fair with Galerie At Down / Montpellier , France
• Art Montpellier Fair with Galerie At Down / Montpellier , France
• Mural to Museum Marum mx / Mexico
• “Reflexion” Group Show with Martine Ehmer Gallery / Brussel , Belgium
• Liquéns”Solo Show with Galerie At Down / Montpelllier , France
• “Metamorfose” Solo Show with Orlinda Gallery / Mulhouse , France
• Intervew for Tramontana magazine , Barcelona
• Group Show in Goldshteyn Saatort Gallery / Paris
• Urban Art Fair , With Ground Effect Gallery / Paris
• Kinetics Solo Show , Curated by Geraud Jean – Claude for Cityoftalents
• With The Waluso Gallery / London
• Intervew for Stuart Urban Art magazine , Paris
• “Pop & Street” Group show , Hidden Champion / Fukuoka japan 
• A.O , Visions Abstraites Optiques / Group show , Galerie Martine Ehmer , Brussels

2020

• Panel painting for Straat Museum , Amsterdam
• A.O , Visions Abstraites Optiques / Group show , Gallery Ground Effect / Paris
• A.O , Visions Abstraites Optiques / Group show , Galerie Atdown  – Montpellier France
• Hidden Champion / Group show , Jin kinoko Gallery in Fukuoka / Japan

2019

• “Art Élyséesv Fair ” Ground Effect Gallery , 17 oct Paris
• “Affective Memories” Jin kinoko Gallery , 16 Ago / Tokyo Japan
• “District 13 Art Fair” Gallery Ground Effect , 25 Sep / Paris
• “Post Graffiti” Gallery Ground Effect , 27 jun / Paris
• “Cathing Tags” Ewkuks Gallery , 15 June / Los Angeles
• “Graafiti ou Pas” Gallery Wall Works , 24 May / Paris
• Moniker Art Fair / Gallery Ground Effect , 01 May  New York
• Urban Art Fair / Gallery Ground Effect 13 april , Paris
• Solo show “POCKET”  / Block House Gallery , Tokio Japan
• Group show “QUINTESSENCE” / Ground Effect Gallery , Paris

2018

• RÉSIDENCE AU MUSEE D’ART URBAIN / Mausa Vauban , Neuf -Brisach
• “TAKE OFF” Group show 18 oct / Ground Effect gallery , Paris
• “MONIKER ” International Art Fair , Gallery Art in the game , Paris x London
• “AMAZONIA” Solo show, 05 oct / Cox Galerie , Bordeaux
• “SUMMER END” Group show Nyc
• Galerie Geraldine zberro, Paris MOTION” solo show 17 may /Vroom and Varossieau , Amsterdam
• “We are Back”Group show /Artcangallery , Marseille France.
• “LA VIE EST NUE”” Group show/ Gallery Wallworks , Paris

2017

• Urvanity Art Fair – Madrid / Gallery vroomandvarossieau – Amsterdam
• 13th Urban Contemporary, Paris, França
  “PULSE” solo show / Ground Effect gallery , Paris
• “LAYERS” solo show /Good Mother Gallery, San Francisco USA
• “SOBREPOR” solo show / AB Galeria, Rio de Janeiro
• “AMBIVALENCE” solo show / Urban Spree Gallery , Berlim
• Print Them All, Release Lithographie Julie por Rafael Sliks, Idem Paris
• “WINTER COLLECTIVE”, Crans Ambassador Hotel /Galerie the Bans , Geneve
• “ÇA PEINTURLURE” , Group Show /Galerie Loft du 34 ,Paris
• “COMPENDIUM”, Group show /Treason Gallery, Seattle
• Urvanity art – Madrid /Gallery vroomandvarossieau – Amsterdam
• 13th Urban Contemporary, Paris, França
• Urban Art Fair, Gallery  Urban Spree Berlim and Art- in- the Game Paris, Nova York
• Stroke Art Fair, Art Avenue Fine Urban Art, Munique

2016

• “RISE AND SHINE”Group show/Arcade Art Gallery, Taiwan
• “GESTO E FORMA” Exhibition /Rafael Sliks e Ricardo Kaur / Galeria Sinlogo, São Paulo
• “WE THE WOMEN” Group show /Atelier des Bains Gallery, Genève
• “ALL ABOUT PRINT”,Group show / Galerie Slika, Lyon
• “EQUILIBRIUM” Group show / Verve Galeria, São Paulo
• “WALL-RRIORS / Lingya District, Kaohsuing, Taiwan
• ArtExpo New York, Pier 94

2015

• “NATURALLY UNSTABLE” /Hoxton Gallery e Dope Gallery, London
• “A STUDY OF CAMOUFLAGE” Group show /Backwoods Gallery, Australia
• “SPRING” Group show /Azart Gallery NYC
• Art up! Foire D’Art Contemporain, Lille Grand Palais, Lille

2014

• “J AI 10ans”Group show / Galerie Brugier-Rigali, Paris
• “BERLINER LISTER” Group show /Intoxicated Demons Gallery , Berlim
• “HONEY I SHRUNK THE STREETS” Group show /1AM Gallery, São Francisco, Califórnia
• “TAKING BACK THE STREETS” / Wat-Aah!, Nova York
• 2013
  “ENTRE CONCRETO E AÇO” Rafael Sliks e Kaur /Galeria A7MA, São Paulo
• KC Arts X Art Basel, Wynwood, Miami

PUBLICAÇÕES

• “NIKE PHANTON”
• Big Mural , Sao paulo 2018
• “The Art of Writing your Name: Urban Calligraphy and Beyond”, Christian Hundertmark e Patrick Hartl, Alemanha, 2017

PROJETOS ESPECIAIS

2008

• Campanha “Batalha da Quadras” : NIKE – São Paulo, Brasil

2007

• DESIGN for NewBalance – São Paulo, Brasil
  NewBalance Tshirts SLIKS

2004

• Campanha “Ellus Graffiti Deluxe” – São Paulo, Brasil

MOSTRAS ANTERIORES SELECIONADAS 

• Tag and Juice – São Paulo, Brasil (2012)
• Leilão Ecoparade – Mube – São Paulo, Brasil (2011)
• L’Oeil Gallery Exposição Coletiva – Aliança Francesa – São Paulo, Brasil (2011)
• Graffiti Fine Art VIII – Mube – São Paulo, Brasil (2011)
• Expo Coletiva – Galeria 3058A – São Paulo, Brasil (2010)
• Exposição Coletivo Colecionável – São Paulo, Brasil (2009)
• “Go get your Shinebox: Brooklynite Gallery – Nova Iorque, EUA (2009)
• Exposição Coletivo “No Comply” – Melborne, Austrália (2008)
• Exposição Uni-versos – Coletivo Galeria – São Paulo, Brasil (2007)
• Anno Domini: Fresh Produtora – Califórnia, Estados Unidos (2007)
• “Caosurbanocromia”, São Paulo, Brasil (2007)

“The radical gesture in the work of Rafael Sliks”

“I’m always doing what I can’t do, to learn how to do it.” Pablo Picasso

Rafael Sliks is an artist born in São Paulo (1981) where he grew up observing street signs through the crack in the gate of his house in the Bela Vista neighborhood. This influence on his creative process and the unique way he uses street writing in his art is what makes him a globally recognized Street Writer. His murals and paintings on canvas can be seen in various places around the world, having participated in publications, festivals, art fairs and exhibitions in the United States, Asia and Europe. He recently had a solo exhibition in Japan and a mural on the gable of a building in the metropolis where he was born.

Sliks is a neologism created by the artist that inverts the word “skills”, written backwards. The term that in English means skill, dexterity and ability to quickly and effectively achieve a specific gesture or conscious objective is very much in line with his artistic practice. Sliks’ great maneuver is transforming the “tag” written quickly and illegally on the streets into something assimilable by the dilettante and art-consuming public. With refinement and technical skill worthy of a street writing scholar, his production is increasingly gaining position in the world of visual arts.

Rafael Sliks relates to the ancient technique of painting through the pragmatic use of oil paint and, with a vast palette of colors, the making of his works places him in conversation with the history of art. In his canvases, street art is deconstructed to the point of becoming a tangle of forest, composing a subjective fauna where the artist harks back to the desire of abstract painters who aimed to reach the essence of spirituality. When Sliks deconstructs his writing and reaches abstraction in search of the essential nothing, he gives new meaning to the urban landscape, rescuing the nature that preceded it. This is where Sliks is aligned with the tradition of abstract painting that aims to dehumanize art through the incessant deconstruction that leaps from mere representation, inviting the viewer to co-create the reality imagined by the artist.

A characteristic of his practice is incessant repetition. Like a mantra, Sliks obsessively writes and rewrites his name until he enters a trance, forcing his spelling to escape itself, reaching another state that reconfigures and escapes conventional written language. If graffiti is in itself a way of proposing other approaches to writing, Sliks radicalizes this attempt. If the inscription of the Tag is in itself a transgression, he developed the ability to radicalize this transgression by taking his habit-addiction to the Hand Style of Graffiti to its ultimate consequences. Rafael approaches the calligraphy technique as a street kung fu Yogi who is not concerned with painting and writing in themselves, but rather with improving the conscious movements of his body with each gesture performed.

His works rescue the body in the visual arts, as they act as a record of his corporeality. His dynamics are close to contemporary art because the action of repeatedly applying his name through different techniques on different supports results in works that are records of performances. When we see his paintings, videos and murals, we feel the energetic “spray-action” of his body movements where the artist’s gestures are always made explicit, this being the guiding thread of his production.

So we can intuit that his works also deal with the traditional issue of sublimation in Eastern practices in which calligraphy, as well as martial arts and yoga are included. In them, what is worst in us can be converted into something sublime through a series of repetitive exercises aimed at improving the execution of these each time we perform them. In other words, it is believed that when we perfect a specific movement, we also improve ourselves. If on the streets Sliks develops vandalism arising from the rebellious tradition of real graffiti, in his studio he builds for himself a field of sublimation of this delinquent impulse. Crime and art are related in aspects of his personality that are expressed through his habits-gestures and movements, being able to cohabit the same space without major conflicts. Transforming the marginality that has haunted him since his origins into something socially admirable, being recognized professionally to the point of guaranteeing his livelihood, but without losing the power of the transgressive gesture that we see on the streets, Sliks created a way of coexisting with his biggest monsters, making them their great allies.

This is the maneuver of great artists who seek to survive in an already given world full of rules that they are forced to play against, creating their own strategic systems to try to reinvent them, this being the greatest lesson of dexterity and skill in the work of Rafael Sliks.

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