Binho Ribeiro is one of the founding pioneers of graffiti and street art in Brazil and Latin America, active since 1984, a career that predates the institutionalization of the movement and places him at the center of its formation in São Paulo. Born Fábio Luiz Santos Ribeiro, he came of age in a city where graffiti was still treated as vandalism. At age 12 he won an art competition that allowed him to study drawing at the Escola Cândido Portinari, and by 14 was already moving through the overlapping worlds of graffiti, skateboarding, and break dance that defined the Brazilian hip hop generation of the 1980s.His visual language is immediately distinctive: surreal, chromatic, and driven by a cast of original characters that have traveled with him across more than fifty countries. Fish, owls, octopuses, and a rotating gang of creatures born from the streets of São Paulo populate his walls and canvases in compositions that carry the energy of the street and the precision of a practiced hand. The work operates simultaneously as celebration and documentation, rooted in a city and an era that shaped one of the most vital graffiti cultures in the world.Beyond his practice as a painter and muralist, Binho has been a central force in the institutional development of urban art in Brazil. In 2011, after being arrested for painting the support columns of São Paulo's elevated metro line, he co-authored a formal proposal to the State's Ministry of Culture and the Metro authority that transformed the site into the Museu Aberto de Arte Urbana, the first open museum of urban art in the world, stretching nearly two kilometers across the Santana, Carandiru, and Tietê stations. He is also the founder and curator of the International Graffiti Fine Art Biennial at the Museu Brasileiro de Escultura, which drew over 55,000 visitors in its second edition alone.His walls have appeared in Tokyo, Los Angeles, New York, Paris, Cape Town, Hong Kong, Beijing, Amsterdam, Brussels, Beirut, Santiago, Buenos Aires, and throughout Brazil. He has exhibited at Art Basel Miami, the Museum of Graffiti Miami, and institutions across Europe and Asia. He lives and works in São Paulo.