Rafael Plaisant earned his BFA in Architectural Design at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. Since 2003, his commercial work as a tattoo artist has taken him around the globe until early 2020, with the onset of the pandemic, Plaisant dedicated his focus to painting full time. His work has been exhibited in New York, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Vienna, Porto, São Paulo, and Rio De Janeiro and has been written about in The Wall Street Journal, The Art Newspaper, Galerie Magazine, and FAD Magazine. He completed a 2024 residency at Wassaic Project (Wassaic, NY) and has been invited to a 2025 residency at the Vermont Studio Center (Johnson, VT). Plaisant lives and works in Botafogo, Rio de Janeiro.