Illustrator and graphic designer of Cuban origin, since 1997 he has lived and worked in Bolivia.
In the field of graphics, he has participated in different competitions and biennials, such as the Bienal Iberoamericana del Cartel de La Paz, the International Poster Biennial of Mexico, Warsaw International Poster Biennale, Colorado International Invitational Poster Exhibition, Moscow Golden Bee Global Biennale, International poster festival of Shenzhen, Fete du Graphisme, Paris, France and Poster for Tomorrow. His work was selected to appear in the books Latin American Graphic Design (2008) and Ilustration Now 4 (2011), both published by the German publishing house Taschen.
In 2014 he was part of the Graphic Dessert, Bolivian Design and Illustration exhibition, Tokyo, Japan. In 2015 he taught a poster workshop at the Ecole Intuit-Lab in Paris.
In addition to graphics, he has developed his work as a cartoonist and illustrator. He was editor of the comic magazine Crash!!, of the book La Fiesta Pagana and co-editor of the comic magazine Suda Mery K.
In 2012, Cuando salí de La Habana was published, which brings together his short comics originally published in various Latin American and Spanish magazines and anthologies, and in 2016, Justicia Poetica, a graphic novel with a script by Pablo De Santis, originally published in Fierro magazine from Argentina.
In 2017, his work was included in the book “El Volcán, un presente de la historieta latinoamericana.”
From 2012 to 2018 he illustrated periodically on the opinion page and in the Sunday magazine Escape, of the newspaper La Razón, in Bolivia.
Final Jury Panel
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