Angel Ortiz, aka LA II, LA2, LA Rock (b. 1967) is New York City-based, self-taught artist who has been creating art his whole life. He is originally known for his early citywide graffiti projects with his crew TNS (The non-stoppers) but it wasn’t until 1980 at the age of 13 his world changed. In a school yard on the lower east side where he grew up, a young student from SVA, (School of Visual Arts ) named Keith Haring sought him out to discuss collaborating artistic styles. Ortiz’s career took off after Haring spotted his “Little Angel'' LAII tag upon moving to New York and throughout the ’80s, both Haring and Ortiz combined their signature styles to create murals, sculptures, train paintings, and art on other found objects.

For over 6 years their collaborative projects took them around the globe, participating in numerous gallery installations, fashion shows and museum exhibitions. It is widely acknowledged that Ortiz’s style and technique are known to have influenced Haring’s compositions long after their creative partnership waned. Although Keith developed a reputation for his iconic art on the streets & subways of New York, it’s only after his extensive collaborations with Angel that he achieved the elusive “ street cred” that all graffiti artists seek. Since the early days with his TNS crew, Ortiz's own style is a mix of contemporary geometric, abstract symbols with influences attributed to hieroglyphics & calligraphy. His signature style is in fact often a repeat of his street tag LAII/ LA2 , completed in a dense almost overlapping pattern referred to as “High & Tight” which is then interwoven with geometric patterns and animated characters he created.

Angel Ortiz has enjoyed an extensive and influential career with exhibitions around the world. Among some selected exhibitions on which LA II has participated are; Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York City, with Keith Haring in 1982, in 1983 alongside with Keith Haring at the Fun Gallery, New York City, at the Galerie Watari, Tokyo, Japan, at the Robert Fraser Gallery, London, United Kingdom, at the Special Projects Paint Fiorucci, Milan, Italy, in 1990 Future Primeval Queens Museum, Flushing Meadows and Corona Park, New York with Keith Haring, Follin Gallery, New York City in 2001, the Clayton Patterson Outlaw Museum, New York City in 2002, and Dorian Grey Gallery in 2011. His art can be found in most esteemed private urban art collections and in the permanent collections of museums such as the Whitney, MOMA, the Guggenheim and the Louvre Museum, Abu Dhabi.