Luis Peralta was born in Nicaragua. He migrated to the United
States at the age of five, and was raised in Washington D.C.
He attended neighborhood schools: Harriet Tubman Elementary School, Lincoln Jr. High School and Bell Multicultural
High School. After high school, he studied art at the Corcoran School of Arts and Design.
Luis has been drawing ever since he can remember, but he
became serious about art at the age of thirteen, when he began
to do graffiti murals. His career as an artist started at
16 when he was commissioned to design and paint a mural for
Body by Jakes, a fitness club. Since then he has created many
public arts projects such as Pandamania with the DC Commission
on the Arts and Woven Identities for the Columbia Heights
Metro station. He has worked under Sol-Lewitt, a world renowned
artist, on a 9 story mural inside the New Convention Center.
He continues to paint murals and receive commissions from
public and private and collectors. |
