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Nate Tan was born in England and moved to SF at the age of 4 in 1975.  At the age of 16, Nate started his 20+ year endeavor as a Hip Hop Graffiti Artist and muralist.  Nate's artwork themes range from graffiti typography, cartoon spray cans and characters to portraits of urban landscapes.  Nate's art work has been documented in many graffiti art magazines such as the Source, One Track Mind and San Francisco Murals.  He was interviewed on the graffiti documentary Piece by Piece as a pioneer of the West Coast graffiti art scene.

Nate's goal is to educate people by taking the word graffiti out of its negative context and reinventing it's meaning in a positive light.