Shoker was born in 1985 in São Pauloʼs East Side,
where he lives todate.Staring off as a boy with a swollen artistic vein, one can say that young man built himself a truly outsider career. East Side was the stage where this autodidactic, perennially curious artist developed his creative work.
Although coming from a part of town with fewer access
to mainstream cultural institutions, the young man turned lack into plenty.
Seclusion has become the motor of his skill and
competence.
East Side is a place where oneʼs esthetic sense is built through spray on the wall, not oil on canvas; there
on the outskirts of town Shoker found beauty amid urban decadence, glancing color behind the grayish
metropolis, finding out grandeur in scarcity, creativity
in hardship.