Ivo Puiupo (b. Lisbon, 1996) is currently based in Brazil. Puiupo investigates and is interested in the tension points between experimental comics and other supports of visual sequentiality such as photography, drawing and painting. His work tends to explore themes that revolve around grief through symbols from his personal figurative and iconographic repertoire.
In parallel to everything, Puiupo is also a disabled trans man. The traversings one experiences within the reffered social context have a great influence on his work’s poetics.
↪ photo taken by Mabel Ye.
Anthologies / Newspapers:
[2024] Skate Snake Zine (Portugal)
[2024] Kus š! #49 ‘Chaos’ (Latvia)
[2023] Assossiassão ()
[2022] Le Monde Diplomatique (Portugal)
[2021] Kus š! #43 ‘Queer Power’ (Latvia)
[2021] Ragu #8 (Brasil)
[2019] Forge Art Magazine issue 24 (United States)
[2019] Cápsula (Quiabo editora - Brasil)
[2018] Revista Baiacu (Todavia - Brasil)
[2017] Klubzin #2 (Poland)
[2017] FŮD (Czech Republic)
[2017] Seven Stories #1 (O Panda Gordo - UK)
[2017] El Volcán (Musaraña Editora - Argentina)
[2016] Topografias (Piqui - Brasil)
[2016] Jornal Suplemento (Brasil)
[2016] Jornal Altamira (Brasil)
[2013] Safe Place (Kingpin books - Portugal)
Teaching Experience:
[2024] Guest lecturer for the Master in Editorial and Advertising Illustration at LABASAD (Barcelona - Spain)
[2018 - 2024] “Developing Experimental Comics” was the title of several workshops lectured over the cited years with support and hosted by the SESC institution in São Paulo (São Paulo - Brasil)
[2019] Experimental comics workshop lectured at the Quadrinhos Impossíveis festival, hosted by Caixa Cultural Fortaleza (Fortaleza - Brasil)
Awards / Grants / Residencies:
[2022] Festival do Minuto - Minuto animação (animation competition, Brasil)
[2021] Toma lá 500 Paus e Faz uma BD (comics competition hosted by Chili com Carne, Portugal)
[2020] Shortbox Minigrant (comics grant, UK)
[2019] Convocatória Des.gráfica (experimental comics award held by MIS São Paulo, Brasil)
[2018] Baiacu (comics residency hosted by the Hilda Hilst Institute, Brasil)
[2013] Amadora BD award for best book in foreign language (comics award, Portugal)
Solo Publications:
[2023] Esqeleto (Self Published - Brasil)
[2023] MUNDO (Ugra Press - Brasil)
[2022] Synapses (Kuš! and Chili com Carne - Latvia / Portugal)
[2021] Kitnet (Sapata Press - Brasil / Portugal)
[2020] Maunder Mini Kus (Kuš! - Latvia)
[2019] Óbice (MIS São Paulo - Brasil - 2019 / Waicomics - Argentina)
[2018] Gume (Self Published - Brasil)
[2017] Eremitério (Self Published - Brasil)
[2015] Úlcera (Czap Books - United States)
Group Exhibitions:
[2024] Mimo Proud (LUSTR Festival, Prague - Czech Republic)
[2024] Porção Execrável (Entr3posto, São Paulo - Brasil)
[2023] Pedacinho’s Island (Funarte, São Paulo - Brasil)
[2023] Intersecções (MUMA, Curitiba - Brasil)
[2023] Bufê Dinamite (Espaço Caroço, São Paulo - Brasil)
[2022] Elipses (Oasis, Rio de Janeiro - Brasil)
[2022] databasa (Canto, São Paulo - Brasil)
[2022] DODODO (Gruta, São Paulo - Brasil)
[2019] BAMBA (BREU, São Paulo - Brasil), São Paulo - Brasil)
[2017] El Volcán (Helsinki Comics Festival, Helsinki - Finland)
[2014] Lixo Futuro (Mundo Fantasma, Porto - Portugal)
Ivo loves animals and his favorite one is the snail.