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“Calangos de Rua” (street lizard) started his career as an artist many years ago when, as a little boy, he was obsessed with drawing all over the walls of his house. He discovered spray paint in high school and hit the street of Salvador da Bahia, Brazil as a pichador (tagger).

Muniz never went to art school and is completely self-taught. His  street art shifted when he began to develop his technique and his style began to incorporate human figures, animals and abstract and surreal images. Today his colorful graffiti art blankets Salvador’s streets inspiring a dialogue with the public about the balance between humans and nature.

In 2000 Muniz co-founded the Movimento Calangos, a collective of artists – photographers, street performers, musicians, actors, dancers and graffiti artists. The Movimento is a space that unites artists in a kaleidoscope of creativity and encourages culture in spaces of the city’s periphery (favelas). His street name – Calangos de Rua – is symbolic of Brazil’s northeastern culture and represents the tempo at which he produces, the vibrant colors he incorporates and his use of a variety of creative mediums.

In 2005, the city of Salvador’s mayor hired Muniz as a full-time salaried street artist as part of the Salvador Graffiti Project. His leadership in the Project eventually afforded him the opportunity to participate in a two-month speaking tour about Salvador’s street art in the United States. From 2007 to 2010 Muniz relocated to New York City where he worked exclusively as an artist. During these three years his art was displayed in over a dozen exhibits all over New York City. In addition, he worked with Groundswell, a Brooklyn-based mural arts NGO, to produce a four-story mural in downtown Newark, New Jersey. Further, he worked as an arts educator with elementary to high school- aged youth in afterschool and summer programs. In 2008 Muniz traveled to Sicily where he participated in several graffiti art events

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