{"id":1825,"date":"2025-01-22T23:33:11","date_gmt":"2025-01-22T23:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/?p=1825"},"modified":"2026-06-11T14:19:36","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T14:19:36","slug":"first-impressions-of-street-art-in-mexico-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/first-impressions-of-street-art-in-mexico-city\/","title":{"rendered":"First impressions of street art in Mexico City"},"content":{"rendered":"

Part of my inspiration for going to Mexico City – and staying in the CDMX, as opposed to spending any time at a resort or on the beach – was that I had heard that Mexico City has become an international destination for art, between the museums, contemporary art galleries, and the street art.<\/p>\n

As I landed in Mexico City and was making my way through the airport, I had planned on taking a bus to take me into the historic center of the city, where I had an Airbnb reservation. The picture above was the first street art mural that I saw on this initial bus trip, and my thought was: if this is what I can expect from the street art, I’m going to see some great art!<\/p>\n

I didn’t notice this while I was on the bus, but take a second look at the picture above. The two figures grab your attention first, but look at the fence: someone painted a sunflower on it, which seems to flow as an image even though the artist had these gaps between each pole. How does one paint a full image on a series of poles? Pretty impressive … I’ve masked out the background in the image below so that you can better see what I’m talking about.<\/p>\n

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See how the sunflower image carries over from pole to pole in this fence?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

While the artist’s name is not visible in the images above, this next one that I saw from the bus while heading into the historic center of Mexico City is a mural by @funny_graff<\/a>, who, from what I can gather, is in fact Rocio Martinez, a local artist who does murals, graffiti, design, and more. I’m not finding a website, but you can see her Facebook page here<\/a>, if you’d like to see more.<\/p>\n

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Street art mural by @funny_graff in Mexico City (CDMX)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Here’s one more that I saw from the initial bus ride … there’s more to the mural than what I captured in this photo, but I have to admit it wasn’t always easy to shoot pictures from a moving bus while also trying to keep a sense of where I was in a new foreign city trying to find my way to my destination!<\/p>\n

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A partial view of street art seen from a bus while riding through Mexico City.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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