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About Rafa

I see a lot of artist bios written in the third person when most likely they wrote it themselves. I tried my best but I found it nearly impossible, so here is my story:

I was born in Peru and moved to Ft. Lauderdale, Florida at the age of 11, I attended middle and high school there and I now reside in Las Vegas, NV. My journey and love for art started early on, I can’t even remember a time where I didn’ want to draw something. I can barely focus when someone starts lecturing about something, so doodling on a piece of paper was a daily thing for me in school.

I was 20 years old when I bought a tattoo gun online, this was the first time I started making money strictly from my art skills. Eventually I was getting paid for t-shirt designs, which led to me opening a design studio in 2010, which is now a very successful creative marketing and advertising agency.
The studio, always filled with my own custom art, looked more like a high end Tattoo Shop than a marketing agency.

It took a long time but I finally launched my personal website on December 2025 to showcase my work and recahrge my desire to draw and paint.

@rafarivas357
rafa@rafarivas.com
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