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CV
Academic Background
MA Illustration – Camberwell College of Arts, University of Arts London (Alban Program Scholarship), 2008
BA Visual Arts – School of Communication and Arts, University of São Paulo, Brazil 2003
Published books
Gerne Würdest Du Allen So Viel Sagen,(comics anthology), Avant-Verlag / Pilecki Institut, Germany, 2019
Wild Thing - or My Life as a Wolf (graphic novel), Ablaze Publishing, USA, 2018
Brain Trippers, ERCcomics.com. commissioned by the European Research Council, 2018
Selvagem (graphic novel), SESI-SP Editora, Brazil 2016
Ma Vie de Loup (graphic novel), Éditions Sarbacane, France 2015
Free the Lines (children's book), Quarto Books, UK 2016
Alone Together (children's book), Quarto Books, UK 2016
Temporama (graphic novel), Nobrow, UK 2010
A Graphic Cosmogony (comics anthology), Nobrow Press, UK 2010
Nobrow magazines 3, 5 and 7 (comics-illustration anthology), Nobrow Press, UK 2009/2010)
Ten Steps Until Nothing (comics anthology), Teiera, Italy 2011
Exhibitions
2025 Mainzer Kunstpreis Eisenturm - Mainz, Germany
2025 Tendermesh Frames Takeover - solo show at Frames, Berlin
2025 At Least We Learned Something Today -solo show at Galerie Kungerkiez, Berlin
2024 Moonlight Euphoria -solo show at Galerie Kungerkiez, Berlin
2023 Die Anderen Farben -solo show at Galerie Kungerkiez, Berlin
2022 Meanwhile... -solo show at Galerie Kungerkiez, Berlin
2015 London Illustration Fair - Hoxton Arches Gallery, London
2014 Light Traveller - solo show at Hobo, London
2013 Maison 302 - solo show at Treviso Comic Book Festival, Italy
2013 Node 18x18 - Design Museum London
2010 Cycling in London - London Transport Museum
2009 Images 33 - The Best of British Illustration, London
2009 A View of London - London Transport Museum
2009 Story Motel - Owl & Lion Gallery, Edinburgh
2008 Text+Image - (co-curator) Camberwell College of Arts, London
2008 Realidades Sobrepostas - Tomie Ohtake Institute, Sao Paulo, Brazil
2006 Terra Brasilis - XPace Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2005 Salao da Bahia - Museum of Modern Art of Bahia, Brazil
2005 Salao da Bahia - Museum of Modern Art of Bahia, Brazil
2000 Print Triennial Krakow - Gallery Bunkier Sztuki, Poland
llustration work
Freelance illustrator (2000-present). Selected clients include magazines: New Yorker, Scientific American, Harvard Business Review (USA); Guardian, Waitrose Food Illustrated, Anorak, Aeon, PrivatSea, Monocle (UK), Allianz (Germany), Citizen K, BE Magazine (France), Internazionale (Italy), Sekret Firmy (Russia); companies: Verve Music Group, Visit Britain, Marylebone Cricket Club, Google, AirBnB, Interface, Steelcase; advertising agencies: Sapient, MCSaachi, AKQA, R/GA; public commissions: Band TV, Pencil & Help; digital/design agencies: Frog Design, Solar, NearlyNormal, WeareGood publishing houses: Hachette, Abril Publishing Group (Brazil), Tschuftli Heftli (Switzerland), Harvard University Press, Nobrow Press.
Animation work
Independent animation designer (2000-present) on commercial projects for MTV Brazil, Google, Globo TV, Disney Channel; Independent animation designer for Bafta-winning, Opscar-nominated Studio AKA (2010/2015); Animation director/designer on commercial projects for Verve Music Group and Fox Channel Latin America and personal projects for Museum of London Docklands and Dois Music (Cabernet music video, screened on MTV Brazil, Hackney pop-up cinemas and the 2012 Melbourne International Animation Festival).
Teaching/workshops/lectures
2005 to 2007 - IED Intituto Europeo di Design, Sao Paulo Brazil. Leading tutor of Illustration Techniques for the Graphic Design and Digital Design courses.
2014 Victoria & Albert Museum, Froidy Late one-day open stencil workshop, London
2013 Gray's School of Art, Robert Gordon University, guest lecturer for BA Illustration, Aberdeen
2015 Museum of London Docklands – history of Poplar storytelling one-week project/workshop, Pencil & Help, London
2016 Arch charity family art workshop, Nearly Normal Studio, London