Danielle Mastrion (born 1982) ^[1] is a New York City-based mural artist. She is also a painter and aerosol artist.^[2] She was raised in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn,^[3] and studied fine arts at the Parsons School of Design, where she received her BFA in illustration.^[1][2] Among her street murals are “The Notorious B.I.G.” in Bushwick, Brooklyn;^[4] DJ Kool Herk;^[5] Beastie Boys singer MCA;^[6] “Little Girls” in Flatbush, Brooklyn;^[7] and a portrait of New York Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm for the 2019 opening of the Shirley Chisholm State Park.^[8]

Her first solo art exhibition was held in March 2013 at MY NY in Brooklyn.^[9] In 2012 she was Art Battles’ NYC Champion.^[1] She is a teaching artist with Creative Art Works in New York City, and is trained in oil painting and has a background in live painting. Her work appeared in the A&E channel's “In Focus” series; “Made Mondays” for New Balance; Budweiser's ad campaign “Respect the Hustle;” and Spike Lee’s Netflix series “She's Gotta Have It.” Her art was also featured in the documentaries “No Free Walls,” and “Street Heroines."^[10]

Her art has been exported to cities outside of New York^[11] as well, including Los Angeles, Miami,^[12] Newark, Washington DC, and Arecibo, Puerto Rico. In addition she has competed art projects outside the United States, including in Cuba, Mexico, Belize, Berlin,^[13] Israel,^[14] England and Paris,^[15][16] France.^[17][18]

At the end of 2018 Mastrion participated in a dual art exhibit with fellow street artist and muralist Lexi Bella, at the 3rd ETHOS Gallery in Brooklyn, called The Grit & The Glam.^[19] She has also painted subjects representing world events and cultural icons, such as a mural dedicated to and in solidarity with the kidnapping of 270 Nigerian school girls kidnapped by Boko Haram; political leaders such as Nelson Mandela, and for French painter and sculptor Marcel Duchamp. She has also painted human rights activists, including Malala Yousafzai.^[20]

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