The Best Bushwick Collective Street Art and Where to Find It
In a world rife with complexities, finding joy in simple pleasures can reconnect us to the present moment. For us, that’s a good cup of coffee first thing in the morning, an open table at a busy restaurant, and discovering amazing street art. And there’s no better place than the Bushwick Collective for a street art fix. We’ve been traipsing to Bushwick for years just to check out the latest murals, and here’s our guide on how to find the best street art this hopping street art mecca has to offer.
Where is the Bushwick Collective?
Bushwick is a neighborhood in Brooklyn which neighbors popular Williamsburg and diverse Bedford-Stuyvesant. The Bushwick Collective is located in the heart of Bushwick, but doesn’t have hard boundaries. We often think of it as having a nucleus, which is located at the intersection of St. Nicholas Avenue and Troutman Street. It extends out from that core, covering street corners and shop gates far and wide.
The Bushwick Collective Mural Map above highlights some of the best street art the area has to offer, and we’ve described them individually in more detail below. You can open a full-size map and use it as a starting point to explore the area.
When is the best time to visit the Bushwick Collective?
Every year, the Bushwick Collective Block Party kicks off the unofficial summer season. It invites the best street artists from around the globe to create new murals, but the outdoor celebration also features musical performances and food trucks, drawing thousands to the neighborhood. If you’re interested in watching street artists at work, this is a great opportunity to do so. But the Bushwick Collective is worth a visit year-round, as most of the significant murals remain untouched between the events, and new ones continue to pop up all the time.
How do I get to the Bushwick Collective?
Brooklyn Beer Garden in Bushwick
If you’re traveling to the Bushwick Collective by subway, take the L train to the Jefferson St stop. If you’re traveling by car, the intersection of St. Nicholas Avenue and Troutman Street is the heart of the action, but you can also map to a nearby landmark like the House of Yes or Brooklyn Beer Garden (both of which are also plastered with fantastic street art). Just note that if you're trekking out for the Bushwick Collective Block Party, you should check for road closures.
Iconic Bushwick Collective Street Art You Shouldn’t Miss
No Stopping Any Time by Roberto Seminario (New for 2025)
Hailing from Lima, Peru, Roberto Seminario, who paints as Sef, has carved out a unique niche in the world of street art and graffiti. Combining his love of artistic realism with the innocence of youth, his murals often feature portraits of children. Many of them are fresh-faced versions of celebrities, like a girlhood image of world-famous singer, actor and producer Alicia Keys, which followed his Bushwick Collective adolescent portrait of Basquiat.
This year, Sef selected another local celebrity as his muse, but one even closer to home. His mural pays homage to Joe Ficalora, founder of the Bushwick Collective. The massive, eye-catching artwork fills one the Collective’s most coveted spots on Troutman Street. It features a young Joe playing with his cousin Frank, superimposed over the phrase "No Stopping Any Time", which represents his boundless, giving spirit. His mother appears like a soft shadow, a quiet but ever-present guide. The mural pulses with life, echoing the heart of a festival that never stops moving forward.
Portrait of a Girl by Christina Angelina
Christina Angelina’s portrait of a girl is one of our early favorites. Originally painted in 2016, the fact that the mural has endured continues to bring us joy. The Los Angeles-based artist has produced a number of incredible portraits throughout her career under the moniker @starfightera, earning her early fans like Ben Moody of the band Evanescence and drawing corporate partners like Uber and Porsche. Christina Angelina has said her characters are often different facets or manifestations of her own self. Although not nearly as massive in scale as other Bushwick Collective murals or her other street art pieces around the world, the girl on Artichoke Basile’s wall is bewitching in its simplicity. We continue to see new Bushwick visitors fall under her spell, with photos popping up on social media year after year.
Huddled Girl by Dasic Fernandez
Chilean artist Dasic Fernandez was one of our early street art discoveries, and we quickly fell in love with his signature rainbow-colored reverse drip. We’ve had the pleasure of watching him and his team work at a variety of mural festivals, but when he returned to the Bushwick Collective Block Party in 2023, he decided to work alone. His mural took five days to complete. The Huddled Girl mural sits unsuspectingly at the first floor level on Starr Street and is easy to miss. But that makes finding it all the more rewarding.
Keep Bushwick Litter Free by Jason Naylor
Jason Naylor is such a household name today, we struggle to remember when we first became aware of his work. We have photos of his colorful and inspirational murals dating back to 2017, when his specific brand of positivity was slowly proliferating the city. Whether intentional or not, his walls became social media bait when his thoughtful messages resonated with passerby after passerby.
His popularity continued to soar during the pandemic, when we were all yearning for kindness and connection. His Bushwick Collective presence has endured year after year. You can find his work where Scott Ave, St Nicholas Ave and Troutman St meet, if you look up. Or you can find him outside Heavy Woods, where his colorful mural pairs with the pink tables to conjure up the perfect photo opportunity.
Also make it a point to visit Naylor’s mural covering the Be Electric Studios building at 358 Troutman Street. The collaboration with Pittsburgh artist Ashley Hodder has a wonderfully psychedelic feel that is utterly charming in scale.
Angel Snake of Brooklyn by B Line Dot
Caffe Vita has been roasting specialty coffee out of Seattle since 1995. When they decided to penetrate the New York City coffee scene, they did so in two of our favorite neighborhoods. Their first location made our list of where to get coffee in the Lower East Side. Their second location in Bushwick is far more sizable, and functions as a roastery as well.
In 2020, Caffe Vita invited Seattle-based artist B Line Dot to decorate the shop’s exterior, and the incredible Angel Snake mural was born. Though we never need an excuse to drop by Caffe Vita for a coffee break, seeing this massive serpent in person always impresses.
De Velda by Ruben Ubeira (New for 2025)
Ruben Ubiera, aka the founder of “Postgraffism,” blends the grit of graffiti with conceptual, figurative storytelling rooted in lived experience. Born in the Dominican Republic and raised in the Bronx, Ruben’s work channels the energy of the streets: skate culture, drips, found objects, and bold typographic layers. But beneath the surface, it also digs deep into themes of race, immigration, and identity. His murals, found in such prominent street art meccas like Miami’s Wynwood Walls and Salem’s Punto Urban Art Museum, are raw and reflective, capturing the tension between urban chaos and human resilience.
The Bushwick Collective veteran has been behind some of the most popular murals like the larger-than-life Brooklyn Bulldog and the masterful Deconstructed Biggie. In 2025 he has not one, but two, massive Bushwick Collective walls. While both deserve mention, we found the De’ Velda mural absolutely showstopping.
Fury by Trasher
Artist’s Instagram: @trasheer
Trasher is a Mexico City-based street artist known for bold, large-scale murals that fuse tattoo, comic, and digital art influences with deep roots in Mexican culture. Hailing from Xochimilco, his work often features iconic imagery like jaguars, snakes, and Day of the Dead motifs, all rendered in a crisp, vector-like style. Trasher’s art isn’t just about visuals; it’s about access. He brings muralism back to the streets, keeping it raw, public, and powerfully personal.
Somos Unidos by Robert Vargas (New for 2025)
Artist’s Instagram: @therobertvargas
Robert Vargas is known for the larger-than-life portraits that adorn his home city of Los Angeles, immortalizing such famous locals as Kobe Bryant and Eddie van Halen. For the 10th anniversary of the Bushwick Collective Block Party in 2021, the Pratt Institute graduate returned to his old stomping grounds to produce a meaningful street art piece inspired by the Latino community, who, as he put it, “are the first to arrive to work and the last to leave.” The large piece at the corner of Wyckoff Avenue and Troutman Street took over 30 hours to complete, and was actualized over three days despite a rainstorm and punishing 90-degree heat. His 2025 mural called Somos Unidos returns to similar themes of love, unity, and community.
Biggie and Basquiat by Maximiliano Bagnasco
Artists’ Instagram: @maxibagnasco
If you watched Conan’s travel series, “Conan O’Brien Must Go”, you would know that he commissioned a giant mural in Buenos Aires of him, Lionel Messi and the Pope. And guess what? Maximiliano Bagnasco painted the mural! Though Bagnasco’s Bushwick Collective mural is modest in comparison and can only be viewed from outside a closed lot, the colorful, life-like rendering of Biggie Smalls and Basquiat is still wholly impressive. And it’s just around the corner from Las Rosas, so make sure you don’t miss it.
Bushwick Breeze by Tymon de Laat
Much like one of our favorite street artists Eduardo Kobra, Tymon de Laat specializes in powerful portraits. The Rotterdam-based artist graduated from the Willem de Kooning Academy, but he developed his signature style as he made his way through Central and South America and fell in love with its people. In 2023, the Cultural Department of the NYC Consulate-General of the Netherlands worked with the Bushwick Collective to invite de Laat to participate in the annual Bushwick Collective Block Party. It was his first visit to New York. As is the case with most of his murals, the portrait is based on a photograph captured by the artist. The subject, Kharlox Piñeda, is a Colombian man living in Bonaire, a small island in the Caribbean.
Tymon returned to Bushwick in 2025 with the piece called Break ICE and Make Waves, featuring Gumskie, a surfer from the Philippines he photographed on the island of Siargao. The equally stunning portrait is located just around the corner from Bushwick Breeze.
Ollie by Patrick Kane McGregor and Stash (New for 2025)
Artists’ Instagram: @patrickkanemcgregor @mr_stash
Animals are often the subjects of beloved murals, and the one by Patrick Kane McGregor is no exception. The Denver artist favors using dogs in his murals, so much so that he uses the term “walldogging” to describe his craft. He’s featured many breeds, but his bulldog Boug is his favorite model by far. Boug passed several years ago, and McGregor continues to memorialize his pooch through his art. There was a beautiful mural of Boug outside the Little Beaver several years ago, but 2025’s wall is an homage to another beloved pet who crossed over the rainbow bridge named Ollie. It was completed in partnership with Brooklyn artist Stash.
Timberlands by Zach Curtis (New for 2025)
Detroit-based artist Zach Curtis blends painterly realism with street-savvy edge, using acrylics and spray paint to create bold, expressive works that tell deeply personal stories. Born in southeast Michigan, Zach has been painting since childhood, but it’s his emotional connection to his subjects—everyday objects loaded with meaning—that gives his murals their power.
His mural this year features a pair of his own Timberland boots tagged by friends with paint markers, then immortalized on the wall. The piece is both a personal time stamp and a tribute to the community, representing the people who’ve shaped him, and acting as a visual reminder that wherever he stands, he’s never standing alone.
Girl and Skull by Enzo Yurrebaso (New for 2025)
One of our favorite new Bushwick Collective gems is the Girl and Skull mural by Enzo Yurrebaso, which is a master class in creating mercurial texture on a wall. The French artist brings a playful yet polished energy to the streets, blending realism with cartoon-inspired style to create a world uniquely his own. Raised on sketchbooks and spray cans, Enzo’s passion for art started with childhood graffiti and grew into a full-fledged design career. Trained in Toulouse, but originally inspired by his artist grandmother, he sharpened his eye for visual harmony and composition while working in advertising and branding. Now he’s channeling that experience back into street art, where clean design meets raw expression.
Biggie Smalls by Danielle Mastrion (Not currently on view)
The sacred Biggie Smalls mural by Danielle Mastrion remained undisturbed in its prime spot on Troutman Ave in the Bushwick Collective since 2012. In the ephemeral world of street art, this is an especially unusual honor. Mastrion, who is Brooklyn born, is a classically trained oil painter. Her murals can be found in all of the city’s boroughs and across the world. On the 10-year anniversary of the Biggie Smalls piece, Mastrion gave it a refresh. It still attracts fans from far and wide and is one of the most recognizable and photographed pieces of street art in North America, perhaps even the world.
Unfortunately, as of the summer of 2025, there is ongoing construction as the team behind shuttered music venue Brooklyn Made develops a new live music venue on the corner of St. Nicholas Avenue and Troutman Street. The mural is not currently on view.
Conclusion
The Bushwick Collective has earned quite a reputation over the years, and the high-profile spots are carefully curated by founder Joe Ficalora and extended by invitation only. But as we mentioned in an earlier section, the farther out you’re willing to wander, the more you’ll discover lesser known artists in “unsanctioned” spots. As street art talent continues to flock to the area, Bushwick and its surrounds has become an incubator with, quite literally, no boundaries. So put on your walking shoes and make a day of it. We’re sure you’ll find some new favorites of your own.
