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| Niz was born in Lima, Peru. She moved to the San Francisco Bay Area when she was 12 years old and became immersed in the skateboard and street subcultures shortly after. Niz began using her art as a means of educating at-risk youth in Santa Cruz and San Francisco by creating murals, fliers and zines that were infused with street art and grit. She began creating skateboard art and stencil art in 2003. Initially inspired by skateboard and other subcultures like hip hop and punk rock, her art now takes the shape of anything and everything that she comes across on a day to day. Niz's stencils are sometimes up to 22 layers deep and she works on anything from walls to grip tape. Her style is distiguishable from other stencil artists because it tends to be multi-layered and she tends to use monochrome colors. While she likes to keep her stencil work clean, the overall look of her pieces is raw and gritty. Niz's primary mediums are spraypaint, paint pens and acrylic paint. She paints a lot of pop icons like Rod Stewart or Tupac and religious figures such as Visnu or Mother Mary. "I like mixing traditional and non-traditional worlds...like painting Mother Mary in acrylic on a beat up skateboard or Oprah Winfrey in spraypaint at a gritty skatepark like FDR"... Niz can often be found travelling and creating art all around the U.S., with her home base in Austin, Texas. | |