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Asad ULTRA Walker is an illustrator, painter, and storyteller. He has been an innovator in Washington DC’s hip hop and graffiti art movements, since first tagging in 1981. One of the first DC-native vandals to embrace the New York graffiti style, he founded KGB, DC’s first and longest-running graffiti crew in 1983. He has spoken about graffiti outreach to the DC City Council and painted at an exhibition of new figurative artists at the Smithsonian. An accomplished illustrator, he is working on several comic projects, and also writes for several hip-hop outlets. Asad continues creating an impressive body of work and curating in galleries and public spaces, locally and nationally.
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