Ces53  | |
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|   Ces53 graffiti on a VIRM, 2009  | |
| Born | Tonny van Hoenderloo van Zandt  | 
| Alma mater | Willem de Kooning Academy | 
| Movement | Graffiti | 
| Website |  ces53 | 
 
 
 Ces53 is the graffiti name of Tonny van Hoenderloo van Zandt, [1] street art/graffiti artist from the Netherlands. [2] Ces53 has been active since 1985 and is the creator of many international street art/graffiti paintings, predominantly in European cities but also worldwide in Mexico, United States and Burma.
Ces53 started as a traditional graffiti writer, one of the first to paint graffiti on trains in the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany. [3] He became world-famous because of his high-quality graffiti paintings, also adopted more traditional art forms during the years, including painting and sculpturing. He became renowned for his innovative styles, [4] quantity of work, and gained a lot of fame and followers within the graffiti community. Since 2005 Ces53 is also part of Lastplak, a world-famous Dutch street art collective.