MISFITS

Graffiti collective · est. walls first

MISFITS

Painted where the city still listens.

Layered graffiti tags covering an urban wall
Wall language

The collective

Five writers.
One public
argument.

MISFITS works at the scale of cities — wildstyle lettering, characters, chrome fills, and wheatpaste that peels with the weather. The walls come first. Galleries, films, and commissions come after — if they earn it.

Formed across yards and night shifts, the collective treats graffiti as a living language: pressure, timing, surface, and risk. No house style. Shared nerve.

Large-scale mural spanning a city building facade

Facade rewrite · documentation still

Writers

The crew

Each hand stays distinct. The MISFITS name is the only thing they share on a wall — and even that gets rewritten.

  • Work associated with NOVA

    São Paulo → Berlin

    NOVA

    Wildstyle / lettering

    Builds letters that refuse to sit still — interlocking forms that read as architecture before they read as alphabet.

  • Work associated with KRAZE
    KZ

    Los Angeles

    KRAZE

    Characters / large-scale

    Figures that lean off brick — half myth, half neighborhood gossip. Known for pieces that stop traffic without asking permission.

  • Work associated with VEX
    VX

    Mexico City

    VEX

    Color / abstract fills

    Treats the wall like a score — pressure, fade, and chrome layered until the surface starts humming.

  • Work associated with SLICK
    SK

    New York

    SLICK

    Throw-ups / transit

    Speed as craft. Lines cut clean under sodium light — work meant to move with the city that hosts it.

  • Work associated with RIN
    RN

    Tokyo → London

    RIN

    Wheatpaste / mixed media

    Paper, paste, and photography that peel with the weather. Documents the collective the way walls document everything else.

Selected pieces

Featured work

Chrome River by NOVA × VEX

2024 · Berlin, DE

Chrome River

NOVA × VEX

Night Shift by SLICK

Night Shift

SLICK

2023 · Brooklyn, US

Heat Index by KRAZE

Heat Index

KRAZE

2025 · São Paulo, BR

Commissions & runs

Selected projects

  1. 01

    Station Wall

    Lisbon Metro · 2024

    200m continuous lettering along a decommissioned platform — painted in three nights with local writers.

    Station Wall in Lisbon Metro
  2. 02

    Yard Session

    Eastern Seaboard · 2023

    A closed session documented as film stills — no commission, no audience, only the work.

    Yard Session in Eastern Seaboard
  3. 03

    Facade Rewrite

    Shibuya, Tokyo · 2025

    Wheatpaste mural over a construction hoarding — peeled and replaced weekly for two months.

    Facade Rewrite in Shibuya, Tokyo

About

Built for walls, not feeds.

MISFITS is not a brand studio with a graffiti filter. It is a crew that still paints illegally when the work demands it, and legally when a wall is worth the contract.

Documentation matters — film, stills, and torn paper archives — but the piece on the wall is the only proof that counts.

Keep the paint wet

Cities of record

  • São Paulo
  • Berlin
  • Los Angeles
  • Mexico City
  • New York
  • Tokyo
  • London
  • Lisbon

Collaborate

Got a wall
worth painting?

Murals, documented runs, exhibitions, and film. Write with a location, timeline, and why the surface matters.