Robert Vargas
Robert Vargas is an American contemporary artist based in Los Angeles, known for large-scale freehand murals and mixed-media portrait work. His murals and portraits appear on prominent buildings across downtown Los Angeles and in cities in Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. Raised in Boyle Heights, Vargas studied at the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts and later at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York.
Coverage of Angelus, a 14-story mural near Pershing Square, has described Vargas as painting the work freehand without grids or projections. He is also known for Our Lady of DTLA. In 2024, he completed LA Rising, a 150-foot Shohei Ohtani mural on the Miyako Hotel in Little Tokyo, and later that year painted large public tributes to pitcher Fernando Valenzuela in Boyle Heights and at Dodger Stadium.
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