Vhils is the pseudonym of Alexandre Farto, a Portuguese street artist. He is one of the most skilled and talented young artists in the current urban art scene.

This internationally renowned innovator creates technically adept portraits on streets around the world. Rather than simply adding paint or other common street art materials to surfaces, Vhils carves, drills, scrapes, tears, and blows his images off architectural walls. Although he became famous for these fascinating, chiseled façade portraits, Alexandre Farto has been visually interacting with urban environments since his days as a graffiti artist in the early 2000s.

Alexandre studied at the University of the Arts – Central St Martins College of Art and Design. As a graduate of London, Alexandre Farto is fully aware of the influence that the history of this city has had on his artistic activities.

He felt compelled to communicate the essence and transition that the streets of London were experiencing and to channel these elements through his own work. His work attracted much attention in 2008, when a face carved into a wall appeared next to a painting by the artist Banksy in London, at the Cans festival. A photo of him creating the work made the cover of TIMES.

However, his revolutionary sculptural technique was first presented to the public a year earlier, at the VSP Group exhibition in Lisbon, where it was hailed as one of the most compelling approaches to street art in recent years.