three grains of rice Painting

Vlad pop was born in 1992 in Cluj Napoca, Romania. In 2001, while still a child, Vlad emigrated to Spain, where he had direct contact with Graffiti and urban art for the first time. Already 2006, Pop was residing in a town near Tarragona, called Sant Carles de la Rápita, and was actively painting Graffiti on the streets. Later, when Vlad Pop was already 16 years old, he decided to focus his studies on art. That was when he decided to start at the ESARDI school of arts and design, and began to train as an artist but at the same time he never stopped painting Graffiti in the streets. When Vlad graduated, he decided to start working for a magazine, where he worked for many years as a photographer and illustrator, and where he ended up being promoted to Creative Director. As the years went by, Vlad saw that he had the possibility of moving to Barcelona, and there he worked for two years on a development project for MediaMarkt in the IT&O department as UX. It was at that time that he began to develop more creations on canvas, and improve his skills as a painter. Leaving the streets a little aside, but he never stopped feeling that Graffiti ran through his veins. Vlad tells us that when he finished the development project at MediaMarket, he was hired by the production company RRESET, where he worked for a year as a photographer, illustrator and filmmaker, focusing on carrying out different photographic and audiovisual works for art museums and printed catalogues. Vlad Pop after a little reflection, and without ever having lost the taste for traveling and being a nomad. He made the decision to leave again, but this time he didn't change cities, instead, he decided to leave Spain behind, to emigrate again. This is how Pop arrived in Austria in February 2020, where he currently works and lives, and where he continues to develop and create his art.