Cristina Daura

Cristina Daura, 1988 Barcelona. After studying illustration at La Massana school and completing her studies at the Maryland Institute Collage of Art (Baltimore, US). Years past where she only finds jobs with no connection with the art world but one day she decides to send everything to hell and only concentrate in what she always wanted: to illustrate and draw comics her own way. Surprisingly things start to get better and she can even pay her rent. These days she works full time as an illustrator with clients such as: The New York Times, The New Yorker, Die Zenit, Süddeutsche Magazine, El País, Penguin Books, Blackie Books, Planeta, Nike, Moog, Razzmatazz, Gutter Fest, Ayuntamiento de Madrid, Domino Records, etc. Her work has been exhibit in Barcelona, Bilbao, Paris, Lyon, Marseille, Hamburg, Mexico City and Rosario (AR). Her illustrations has been considered to play between a childish esthetic but with the perversion of someone who is not well in the head. Comic and fauvism art are two of her most influences. That, a lot of television and Internet.