Catalina Vásquez Salazar is an artist, illustrator, filmmaker and designer from the mountains of Medellín in Colombia.

Personal and intimate yet open and diverse, her work combines storytelling and graphic languages towards her own universe of topics, thus giving life to personal feelings, people and relationships, places and travels, personal and collective memories, and humanitarian causes.

Such a variety of possibilities keeps her active in both personal and commissioned works in various formats, including independent animation and documentary projects, illustrated books, comics and magazine articles, advertising, apps, educational projects, museography, textile, film, and fashion.

She is currently focused on developing her brand and personal projects, plus working on the community side and illustration at Reserve, where she has also been diving into web3.

She was invited in Global Artist Committee of Asian Art Association in Sep 2022 and be judge for World Heritage Painting Competition 2023.

Selected clients

Adobe · Internazionale · Amnesty International · Upwork · Doméstika · Snapchat · Reserve Airbnb · Penguin Random House · Editorial Planeta · Ministry of Culture of Colombia · Medellín Modern Art Museum

Publications

Geraldine. Goethe Institut. Catalina Vásquez & Alejandra Pérez Torres. 2022

Los Animales del Cielo (The Animals of the Sky). Editorial Planeta. Catalina Vásquez & Germán Puerta Restrepo. 2021.

A Estória Do Sol E Do Rinoceronte (The Story of The Sun and the Rhino) Alfaguara. Portugal. Catalina Vásquez & Ondjaki. 2020.

Las Aventuras de Ulises (Ulysses´s Adventures). Ministerio de Cultura de Colombia. 2017.

Manual Para Cazar Una Idea (Manual to Hunt an Idea). Tragaluz Editores. Colombia. Catalina Vásquez & Jose Andrés Gómez. 2015.

Awards & Grants

ADC Silver Cube Award. The One Club for Creativity. New York, USA. 2022

Movements and Moments, Feminist Generation. Goethe Institut Indonesia. 2020

Graphic Novel Artistic Residence "Maison des Auteurs". Granted by the Ministry of Culture of Colombia and La Cité Internationale de la Bande Dessinée et de L'image. Angouleme, France. 2018

The Film Development Fund Grant (FDC) - Proimágenes Colombia. 2016

Exhibitions

2015. Museo de la Calle. Fiesta del Libro y la Cultura. Medellín, Colombia

2018. Maison des Auteurs. Festival International De La Bande Dessinée d'Angoulême. France.

2019. Latin America illustration 6. New York, USA

2022. Artists posters. La Guarimba International Film Festival. Amantea, Italy.

Films

Niebla (Mist). 2020. Animation short film / Producing
Cárcel (Jail). 2017. Documentary animation short film / script, directing
Islas (Islands). 2014. Animation short film / Script, directing, animation
Reciclando Recuerdos (Recycling Memories). 2010. Documentary short film / Script, directing