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Mark Rios was born in Barcelona in 1987. Professionally known as Mr. Dripping, Mark is an artist and fashion designer. His works have been exhibited in Barcelona, Madrid, Florence, New York, Miami, and Los Angeles.

Life & work
Mr. Dripping grew up in Barcelona, Spain and studied art at the Frederic Mistral school in Barcelona. He started his career by creating his own brand of clothing and bags that he was selling in multi-brand stores around the country. In 2015, he took art as a career. In the following year he moved to New York City and did his first show at PHD Dream Hotel featuring Kygo and a brand collaboration with Black Pyramid.

In 2017, he found himself traveling between Europe and America, doing works and shows in cities like Madrid, Barcelona, Milan, Florence, and New York. Until in December of the same year, he traveled to Miami after he got the opportunity of exhibiting his work and doing a live performance piece with Major Lazer in the week of Art Basel.

Dripping is a technique originally developed by Max Ernst in Germany and later used by American artist, Jackson Pollock.