(Close)

moncho1929 (Dan Monteavaro; b.1975 Puerto Rico)

Dan Monteavaro (b. New York, NY) is a Los Angeles-based artist and muralist working under the name Moncho 1929. Raised in the South Bronx, his paintings draw on street art traditions, ancestral knowledge, and the forces of nature reclaiming what civilization leaves behind.

He has exhibited internationally, with solo presentations at UNREPD at The Grand, Los Angeles (2023) and Done Gallery, Los Angeles (2021), and group exhibitions at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Art (2022). His work is held in the permanent collection of the Figge Art Museum, Davenport, IA, the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center Library, and in the collections of Porsche, the City of Los Angeles, Berkadia and Soho House, among others. Major public commissions include murals for Audi Field, Washington DC, Porsche, Google, NY Dept. of Transportation, The City of West Hollywood, and Los Angeles Dept. of Parks and Recreation, and the City of Los Angeles. He was a finalist for the BP Portrait Award, UK, in 2019.

Today, he lives and works in Los Angeles, CA

© 2026 moncho1929