Danya Aletebi

Danya Aletebi was born in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia and migrated to Durango, Colorado with
her mother and sister in the 90's. Aletebi began creating upon arrival to the states and
built kingdoms of magic and light both on paper and outdoors. The insatiable urge to
create did not cease, but grew into a romance that leads her throughout every step of
her journey. Aletebi moved to San Francisco at the age of seventeen to study her
passion at the California College of Arts, where she received her Bachelors of Fine Arts.
The bay area fed her hunger for creation; trains, graffiti, the beauty in decay and chaos,
struggle, the occult, loneliness, culture. Nine years in the bay area, (emphasis in
Oakland), allowed Aletebi to embark on several adventures and opportunities, including:
street art/fine art shows in, Williamsburg-New York, New Orleans-Louisiana, Minneapolis-Minnesota, several cities in Colorado, San Francisco-California, Berkeley-California- (which was home to her art collective for two years), international group shows; Germany and Spain, and murals throughout the west and east coasts. Many nights were spent in train yards and her art studio in San Francisco, where happiness
always floats through her blood. Through experimentation, travels, and the pleasure of
meeting and being consistently pushed by other artists, she is able to speak a language
of color, emotion, and define her romance with the human experience. Aletebi is an
avid participant in the women of color/minority empowerment movement,
sustainable living/urban improvement, street art, DIY, women's art initiative,
alternative/modified, and self love visionaries and families.
Danya, again, resides in colorful Colorado to continue painting- both on canvas and
streets, creating affordable and unique merchandise and clothing, tattooing, working
passionately in her community, and following train tracks. The next part of her journey is
unknown, however, it is guaranteed that her romance with the human experience,
creation/destruction, and the hunger for color and movement, will follow wherever she
lands.

Instagram: @danya.aletebi