Paola Gaviria

Artist and comic book illustrator. She has lived across the world and has garnered many artist residencies such as La Cité Internationale des Arts, in Parte and the Firstdraft Gallery, in Sidney. She was the winer of the project En Vitrina: during 14 days, she made a performance inside a display, drawing whatever was in front of her. She gathered a drawing club at the Amazonian river for two months thanks to the Gilberto Alzate Avendaño grant. She has showcase her drawing journals and her calendars in many cities, like New York, Bogota, Sao Paulo, Sydney, Milan, Paris and fairs like La Fiac and Slick. Some of her sketchbooks are part of the collection at the library Luis Ángel Arango (Bogota). Her work is autobiographical and it explores drawing, narrative, the routinary, and the text. Aside from her graphic novel, Virus Tropical, she has published other tiles such as La Madremonte, Por dentro, La Silueta, Diario de Powerpaola, and QP. She is part of the collective Chicks on  Comics. She lives in Buenos Aires and publishes monthly in the magazine Arcadia.

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