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Rigo (Ricardo Gouveia) was born in Madeira Island in 1966. The artist emigrated to the United States and studied at San Francisco Art Institute and Stanford University. He is a painter, a muralist, and founder of Collective Clarion Alley Mural Project, as well. He lives in San Francisco where he became well known for painting one-way signs in the streets. In 2010 he participated in the Liverpool Biennial and in the art exhibition Às Artes Cidadãos at Fundação de Serralves. He began collaborating with Portalegre’s Tapestry in 2009.