Daniel Jonez

Born and raised in the São Paulo metropolitan area in the 1980s, Daniel Jonez experienced firsthand the aspirations and consequences of the punk youth movement, which burst onto the urban scene and enthusiastically discovered what it meant to question, point fingers, and disrupt the old order. This generation, coming of age in the period that followed political repression, willingly broke with passivity, always with great audacity and considerable controversy. This is how Daniel Jonez moves between streets, alleyways, and skyscrapers, forging his style and voice along the way. 

From São Paulo’s walls to the studio. In the final years of his youth, he took part in the “Pixos” movement before moving toward collective mural painting. Notably, he never abandoned his nature as an artist, including when he pursued social sciences — a decisive step in shaping his critical perspective. This dual training, rooted in both the wall and theory, explains the nature of his work: painting born from the street but thoughtful about what it depicts. 

Painting of color and urgency. A Brazilian painter based in Spain who has exhibited his work internationally, Daniel Jonez creates street art–influenced paintings in which color reigns supreme and aggressively, while the speed of his brushwork brings movement and impact. Aerosol, broad brush, drips, layers: the material preserves the trace of the speed of execution, as on a façade painted in haste.

An engaged message. The artist focuses on social issues that run throughout his body of work, particularly protest and politics. The figures he paints — bodies in motion, tense faces, crowds — carry this weight: the painting becomes a space for speaking out, a direct extension of what graffiti represented to him as an adolescent.