Monky

Monky (born Pedro Tolomeo Rojas Meza, 1962 and also referred to as '''Pedro Tolodeo His street posters, printed in bright fluorescent inks and pasted on walls across Lima, are associated with the chicha music genre.

Early life and education Monky was born in 1962 in San Lorenzo, a district in Jauja in the Junín Region to a farming family. and worked as a mechanic, waiter, combi fare collector, cook, and day laborer. His first major clients were chicha musicians Chacalón and Tongo, who hired him to create posters for their concerts. Despite the introduction of laser-printing technology that enables printing large-scale work and has largely replaced manual creation in the industry, Monky creates his work by hand. Los Destellos,

Monky's early work used a color palette of blue, red, yellow, and orange against a black background. Monky won the mural contest. In 2020, Monky's work was featured in "Revolución Chicha: Street Art & Graphics of Perú," an exhibition at Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In 2021, the Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC) presented a virtual exhibition of his work. In 2025, his work was featured prominently in the exhibition "Neón Chicha" at the Museo del Grabado ICPNA, which included an installation called "Monkylandia" displaying his posters created from 2013 onwards.