Antonio Beniquez aka AntBen born in Aguadilla, PR and raised in Chicago has been an artist his whole life. As a kid he was fascinated by many forms art, mainly: comic books, anime, and typography thru graffiti and attended the Art Institute of Chicago from the age of 8-11 years on an academic scholarship.

In an effort to avoid living the ‘starving-artist’ life, after HS, he decided to commit to studying Mechanical Engineering due to his curios nature and the financial comforts an engineering salary would afford him. Since 2006 he’s been in product development and has worked on and lead high-cost projects for most of Forbes top 100 companies and was awarded a top 40 under 40 engineer by ‘Products Finishing Inc.’ Class of 2018.

In 2012, after a few years working as a Manufacturing Engineer, He decided to dive back into the world of Art and Design to quell the urge to create, as he did before the firm constraints of engineering design.

He featured some Calligraphy work on canvas at a local Gallery and now has work on every continent on the planet.

Since then he’s explored and discovered many new mediums that interest him and has added various skillsets along the journey.

Titles: Calligraffiti Artist, Large Scale Muralist, Mechanical Engineer Director, 3D Generalist, Fashion Design, Motion Graphics, Video Editor, Graphic Designer

Notable art projects: Nike, NBA, MLB, Tesla, RTFKT

Notable Engineering contract work: Tesla, GM, Ford, John Deere, Raytheon, General Dynamics, Northrup Grumman, GE, Boeing, SpaceX

Software: Adobe Suite (full), Solidworks, Maya, Blender, Figma