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hello @ karlamonterrosa.com
I’m an illustrator and animator who finds inspiration in everyday misfortunes. My work reflects a world in which shame doesn’t exist and characters live in the tender breach between childhood and maturity.
I was born and raised in sunny San Salvador, El Salvador, and I currently live in rainy Vancouver, BC - making my home in the unceded, ancestral, and occupied traditional lands of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Watuth Nations.
I studied traditional drawing at the Corcoran School of the Arts & Design and went on to graduate from Emily Carr University of Art + Design with a BFA in Animation in 2013. My latest short film, Lo 100to, was one of 6 projects selected to be produced by The National Film Board of Canada as part of the Hothouse 13 Program.
Hire me to direct and design for animation, illustrate a picture book or advertising campaign, or loop some gifs for your brand.
For bigger projects that require everything from concept to compositing, I work in collaboration with my good friend and favorite animation director Natty Boonmasiri as Holy Peach.
Select clients: Microsoft, The LA Times, The Georgia Straight, CBC, The National Film Board of Canada, Titmouse, Inc., WATTS, Anxiety Canada, Point Blank Creative, London Drugs
Features
77 Years of Latinx-Canadian Cinema at the NFB (1945-2022)
National Film Board Hothouse 13
Vancouver Art Gallery: Art Connects
SAD Magazine SADcast
Exhibitionists (CBC Arts)
Exhibitionists (Tutorial - CBC Arts)
Luchadoras.MX
Huffpost
CBC Arts
Hysteria! Revista
Mujeres al Borde
Imperfectu Gender Studies Festival