11 Facts About Rigo 23

Rigo 23 was born on Ricardo Gouveia, 1966 and is a Portuguese-born visual artist.

Rigo 23 arrived in San Francisco in 1985, using the name Rigo 23 85.

Rigo 23 earned a BFA degree from San Francisco Art Institute in 1991, and an MFA degree from Stanford University in 1997.

From 1984 until 2002, Rigo 23 used the last two digits of the current year as part of his name, finally settling upon "23" in 2003.

Rigo 23 is one of the founding members of Clarion Alley Mural Project collective in 1992 and is still an active member, as of 2017.

Rigo 23 is considered by some art critics and curators to be part of the first generation of the San Francisco Mission School art movement.

Rigo 23's artwork has highlighted world politics and political prisoners, from the Black Panthers and the Angola Three to Mumia Abu-Jamal, whose conviction for the murder of a policeman is contested, and the American Indian Movement's Leonard Peltier.

Rigo 23 created a controversial statue of Peltier that was removed from the grounds of the American University in January 2017.

Rigo 23 was an occasional professor at the San Francisco Art Institute.

Rigo 23 has designed several installations as part of the 2006 Liverpool Biennial.

Rigo 23's work is in the collection of di Rosa, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Berardo Collection Museum.