The Street Artist MTO, which is the short form for Mateo, was born in France and worked mostly in Berlin.
MTO became known for spraying gray scaled portraits with a typical red outline (that is part of the artwork and his signature at the same time) â usually of people who inspired him. For that reason he started painting musicians like the young Micheal Jackson, Ray Charles or Jimmy Hendrix but also movie actors and their most interesting film scenes, like Jack Nicholson from âShiningâ, Robert De Niro from âTaxi Driverâ or Angelina Jolie from âTomb Raiderâ.
