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Asad "ULTRA" Walker is a well-known graffiti and street artist who has been actively painting in Washington, DC since 1982 and in 2011 was said by Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia to be "a major player in DC's tagging/graffiti subculture". After bombing for three decades, he is considered by some to be "arguably DC’s longest-running writer". His graffiti name "ULTRA" is taken from the Japanese tokusatsu television series, Ultraman that aired in Washington, DC on the Captain 20 block of children's television programming in the early to mid 70's.

First tagging in 1982 using go-go style, Washington DC's native form of graffiti, under the alias of "HOBO", Asad Walker became DC's first NYC-style graffiti writer when he changed to the moniker "RAGE". In 1983, he founded Krazy Graf Brothers (KGB), Washington DC's first graffiti crew. Walker eventually relocated to New York City in 1985. Upon returning to DC in the early 90's, he began writing graffiti as "ULTRA", often in association with other notable DC street artists, such as Cool "Disco" Dan. In 1998, Asad Walker was sentenced to 5 years in Lorton for crimes unrelated to graffiti. In 2009, Walker began showing his work extensively in exhibitions, beginning with Artomatic, and later, the Smithsonian Institution and gallery shows. Asad became a member of the public art collective Albus Cavus and has taught youth in a variety of settings, including gang abatement and incarcerated youth programs. He was lead artist on the "seasons in the city" mural in 2009 with several artists, including Chor Boogie, and "changing gears" mural in 2010  for MuralsDC, a program of the District’s Department of Public Works and the DC Commission on the Arts and the Humanities. In July 2011, Walker was charged by the MPD with allegedly painting the moniker "MAR5".

He is featured in the books Free Agents, A History of Washington, DC Graffiti and The History of American Graffiti and has appeared in the documentary films Chocolate City Burning and the upcoming The Legend of Cool 'Disco' Dan.