Mural Location: Mural Alley, on 10th Street
between I and J Streets

Royyal Dog is Chris Chanyang Shim and hails from South Korea. Shim is a Korean street artist who grew up in love with American hip hop culture. In school, he studied drawing and animation but couldn’t help but be drawn to graffiti art, eventually traveling as a graffiti artist, learning the many languages he would need to navigate wherever he was going, making connections with other artists, and growing the street art wings that would continue to fly him around the world. Most popular of Shim’s work are depictions of women of color wearing Hanbok, traditional Korean garments. At first, Shim drew criticism for “selling out Korean culture to other countries” but to this he responds: “These works are painted in black neighborhoods; what I was bringing to the scene was the Hanbok. For me, it was as though I was giving Hanbok as a present to the neighborhood.” For Shim, it is like a marriage of what he grew up knowing at home and what he grew up admiring from afar. Shim’s downtown Modesto mural is a depiction of Korean boxer.