Self-taught painter, he began in the world of Graffiti in 1998 influenced by the pieces he saw on the tracks, on his continuous visits to Malaga on the commuter train. Since 2008, he began to exhibit Underground until 2012 when he began to exhibit more frequently in Galleries and Museums, both individually and collectively, see Neurotitan (Berlin), Fundación Cini (Venice), Cac Malaga or Matadero in Madrid.

The murals of him in the Russian Museum and the Pompidou Center in Malaga in 2018 and 2019 by the Maf (Málaga Film Festival) stand out. He has collaborated with companies such as Zalando, Unicaja, Vans, Hotel Higuerón...etc. His style in the beginning had a marked influence on Graffiti as in Animal Series, or his urban interventions loaded with visual poetry. In 2017 he broke with all of the above following his beginnings in abstraction.

He oscillates between the more geometric abstraction as in the series "Circles" 2018 or the more gestural abstraction as in the series "Estratos" 2019, among other series, "Umbrales" 2020 also stands out with a strong predominance of light.

In 2023 he has started a new series of paintings that are much more gestural and impulsive, enjoying the act of painting, the process, as a diary, with a use of color that reminds us of his beginnings, but with an important poetic charge. . He has begun to use for the first time words and phrases that he rescues from his daily life, reflecting a whole series of emotions and experiences of these last few months, where he talks to us about relationships and feelings.

New geometric figures appear, such as the triangle, a symbology that the author uses as metaphors and messages that tell us a story, his story... theirs.

He considers his work to be constantly changing and evolving, investigating new supports such as cardboard and the possibilities of paper. He combines his studio-based artistic work with large-format murals for public entities and private companies. He has also been carrying out a more educational part through workshops and talks on Urban Art.

INDIVIDUAL EXPOSITIONS:

2023

Birthplace Picasso "ST" Hotel Higuerón.

2022

"The light is not far away" Ignacio del Rio Gallery.

2019

2nd Movement Mural intervention in C. Pompidou

“Thresholds” Ignacio del Rio Gallery, Malaga

“Strata” San Telmo Art School, Malaga

2018

1st Movement Mural intervention in the Russian Museum (Málaga)

"Changes” CC Fuengirola (Málaga)

2016

Versus, El Pacto Invisible Gallery, Málaga.

2014

Vandal Poetry, Cuc Unicaja Antequera.

2013

Skulls, Mijas House Museum, Malaga.

2012

Onírico, La Casarosa Gallery, Málaga.

2011

Disorder II, Handicap Art Space, Málaga.

Disorder I, Los Tesoros de Senda, Málaga.

2010

Branching out, Las Lagunas Culture House, Málaga.

COLLECTIVE EXHIBITIONS:

2022

We Are Here 2, Economic Society of Friends of the Country, Málaga

ST Casart Gallery, Casablanca (Morocco).

Sold Out, Hidden Gallery, Malaga

Homies, Puerto Banus, Marbella

Estival, Lca, Malaga

Piñazo, Lca, Malaga

2021

Contemporary Malaga, Mupam

Art for Change, Botanical Garden (Málaga)

Design week Marbella.

Cac Velez Malaga

Biznaga, Ateneo Málaga

2019

We Are Here, Economic Society of Friends of the Country, Malaga

Hidden Gallery, Art Jaen

Maf Malaga, Ateneo

2018

Art & Breakfast Room Mate Larios (Málaga) Hidden Gallery

2017

Wheel2wall, Neurotitan Gallery, Berlin, Germany.

Wed, Matadero, Madrid.

2016

Unicaja Museum of Popular Arts and Customs (MUACP)

Urbanus, Banus Gallery, Marbella, Malaga.

HEP, Iou Story Store, Madrid.

HEP, Visual Malaga

Amarte, Delia Records, Madrid

Urban Art, CUC Almería

2015

Imago Mundi, Cini Foundation Venice, Italy.

Made In Spain, CAC Malaga.

Days to count, CAC Vélez Francisco Hernandez

Urban Art, Sala Siglo Unicaja, Malaga.

Urban Art, Joaquin Peinado Museum, Ronda, Málaga.

Urban Art, CUC Antequera, Malaga.

Infinito Particular, Sala Cruzcampo, Málaga.

2014

Malagacrea 2014, CAC Málaga.

S/T Espacio Cienfuego, Málaga.

Malaga Hosts, Espacio Cienfuegos, Málaga.

2013

"Life..." Cuc Antequera, Málaga.

2012

Wall To Wall, Montana Shop Gallery, Barcelona.

2011

My Sofa, La Sala de Blas, Archidona, Málaga.

S/T, Handicap Art Space, Málaga.

S/T, Los Tesoros de Senda, Málaga.

2009

S/T, BlackMoon Room, Torremolinos, Málaga.

2008

Toxicarte, San Pedro City Council Exhibition Hall.

Powerart, S. San Pedro City Hall exhibitions.

LIVE PAINTING & OTHER COMMISSIONS

2022

Custom Rolls Royce, Higuerón Resort.

Live Painting Victoria Beer Factory (Diario Sur).

2021

Project, Street it all, Zalando.

Live Painting Design Week Marbella

Live Painting Bando Arts Club

2020

Large format mural Hotel Higueron

2019

Mural intervention at the Pompidou

Graffiti Workshop (Workshop) Picasso Museum (Málaga)

2018

Mural intervention in the Russian Museum (Málaga)

Ronda Fair Poster.

Live Painting, El Corte Ingles Puerto Banus (Marbella)

Live Painting la Brecha Málaga, to benefit Cudeca.

Mural collaboratestive with the children of the Maravillas school

2016

MAUS Malaga

Project for the glasses brand Laveta Eyewear

2015

Creative Spain, IN Festival, Lisbon, Portugal.

Vans brand project.

Exprofesso intervention on Siglo Unicaja Room wall.

Collaboration in the project of the artist Javier Calleja,

"Limoneros Building".

2014

90 meter mural, for the Unicaja Foundation.

2013

Maus "Malaga Urban Art Soho"

Malaga Film Festival.

2012

25 meter mural, Mijas Town Hall, Málaga.

2011

Live Painting & Installation, La Noche en Blanco, Málaga.

Live Painting, Poligono Art Gallery, Marbella, Málaga.

Live Painting, Arts Market, Malaga.

Graffiti Exhibition, International Tunning Concentration,

Marbella, Malaga.

Graffiti Exhibition Alhaurín City Council, Málaga.

2009

Graffiti Exhibition, Vaporcito Urban Festival, Cádiz.

Live Painting, Fuengirola Art, Fuengirola, Malaga.

Graffiti Exhibition, International Tunning Concentration,

Marbella, Malaga.

Graffiti Exhibition, El Palo, Malaga.

2008

2nd Prize in the Provincial Graffiti Contest, Benalmádena, Málaga.

Graffiti Exhibition, Torre del Mar, Málaga.

Graffiti Exhibition, Fuengirola, Málaga.

2007

“Solsound” Hiphop Festival Exhibition Marbella, Málaga.

Graffiti Exhibition, Fuengirola, Málaga.

Graffiti Exhibition, San Pedro, Málaga.

Skatepark Graffiti Exhibition, Benalmádena, Málaga.

Graffiti Exhibition, International Tunning Concentration,

Marbella, Malaga.

2006

Graffiti Exhibition, Fuengirola, Málaga.

Graffiti Exhibition, International Tunning Concentration,

Marbella, Malaga.

* Individual works and commissions in Jaén, Granada, Cádiz, Madrid, Valencia, Málaga...etc.

AWARDS:

2014

3rd Malagacrea Prize.

2012

2nd Prize Wall To Wall Contest, Montana Colors, Barcelona.

Selected in the Marbella Crea Contest.

2011

Selected in the Graffiti & Cinema Contest, Plaza Mayor, Málaga.

2010

Selected in the Graffiti & Cinema Contest, Plaza Mayor, Málaga.

2009

Selected in the Graffiti & Cinema Contest, Plaza Mayor, Málaga.

2008

2nd Prize Provincial Graffiti Contest, Benalmádena, Málaga.

AWARDS & WORK IN COLLECTIONS

Work in collections

-Bennetton Foundation, Unicaja Foundation, Vans brand, HotelHigueron

Malaga City Councils, Poligono Art Gallery, Supreme HHshop Canarias, ...etc.

* Different private collections in Spain, England, Germany, Italy, USA...etc.

PUBLICATIONS

- Diario Sur Front Page (02/20/19)

“Darko: The light at the end of the Pompidou tunnel”

Antonio J.López (02/20/19)

“Darko, add and continue” Juan Francisco Rueda,

Diario Sur (05/18/19)

“Urban Art in the Russian Museum” The opinion of Malaga.

“D.Darko: the maturity of the wild graffiti artist” Antonio J.López,

Diario Sur (03/21/18)

“Graffiti sneaks into the Russian Museum” Manuel Donoso

Malaga today (03/21/18)

“Surprise at the museum, 6 contemporary artists in

the MUCAP”,Juan Francisco Rueda, Diario Sur (12/31/16)

“Towards better than against”, Juan Francisco Rueda,

Diario Sur (8/13/16)

“D.Darko vs Montijano”, Antonio Javier Lopez,

Diario Sur, (7/13/16)

“The wild graffiti among the ruins of the boom”,

Antonio Javier López, Diario Sur (2/29/16)

“Spain Identity/ Modernity, Contemporary Artists from Spain”

Fabrica Editorial, 2015.

“The Poetic Vandalism of D. Darko”, Antonio Javier Lopez,

Diario Sur, (1/15/15)

“From the Urban to the gallery”, Juan Francisco Rueda,

South Journal (01/19/13)

“From observation to Urban intervention”

the opinion of Malaga 2011.

Review in the main newspapers of Malaga

“the blank night” (May 2011)

Monographic report in opinion,

”Street art, the street museum for the curious” (March 2011)

Newspaper article “the opinion of Malaga,

“art makes the street” (Feb.2011)

Interview Malaga21 (Dec.2010)

Urban art web interview “outsidermag” (Sept. 2010)

Interview and monograph on Ftv.

Interview program “Suburbia” Radio 340

Report in “Vive Mijas” magazine 2010

Newspaper “Mijas Semanal” 2010

Book ”Graffiti, art and vandalism” photographer Fco. Moreno 2009

Interview in “creative space” (zoom magazine) 2009

“Font Freak” English fanzine 2008

“la Charku” national graffiti magazine 2008

“Hip Hop Nation”, a national Rap magazine,

with separate photographs, highlighting a 3-page special

about my work in 2007.

“Hipflow” national rap magazine, 2006-2007