MAURICIO
PARRA
About me / Prizes, Publications
Publications include: Rolling Stone magazine, El Espectador (Colombia), El Tiempo newspaper (Colombia), Dinamita magazine (USA) Fena-Mizah magazine (Turkey), Satira Opinion magazine (Usa), viagem magazine (Portugal)
ABOUT ME
Born in Bogotá, Colombia, currently living in Toronto, Canada.
Professional artist, Illustrator and Concept Artist. Currently living in Toronto. I have published my cartoons and caricatures in important newspapers and magazines in Colombia (like Rolling Stone magazine, El Espectador, El Tiempo). I have shown my works on international exhibitions and contests around the world, and I have obtained several prizes for my cartoons and caricatures. Currently, I act as Canada Representative in the Union of World Cartoonists.
INTERNATIONAL AWARDS / PREMIOS INTERNACIONALES
- Prize “Popular jury”. 43° salao internacional de humor de Piracicaba. Brazil
- First Prize, Caricature category. Salão Internacional de Humor Gráfico de Jaboatão dos Guararapes, Brazil
- Third prize, Caricature section, XXI Salón Mercosur Internacional Diogenes Taborda, Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Honorary mention. 43° salao internacional de humor de Piracicaba. Brazil
- Third Place. VIII International Caricature Contest-Magazine "Nosorog" ("Rhinocervs") Republika Srpska, Bosnia Hersegovina, 2016.
- First Place. International Cartoon Contest “la imagen al combate de la corrupción”, (Cartoon against corruption) organized by Internaional Development Bank, Washington D.C. 2015
- Honorable. Aylan International Cartoon and Illustration Exhibition. Iran, 2015
- First prize. Caricature section. 22º Cartoon Rendon international cartoon festival. Rionegro, Colombia, 2015
- Bronze award. International Cartoon Competition on Environmental Protection 2014. Beijing, China
- Honorable mention. 3er Concurso Internacional del Cartón. Sinaloa, México,2014
- Honorable mention. 6th International Cartoon Contest. Ciudad de las Ideas. Puebla, México,2014
- Second prize.2nd International Cartoon and Caricature Festival. Cartoonmag.com. Irán.2014
- Third place. Bronze prize. The 8th Humodeva International Cartoon contest 2014. Deva, Romania
- Honorable mention XVI Portocartoon Festival with the theme living water/living earth. Porto, Portugal,2014
- Honorable mention. Caricature section. 7º Salao de humor Internacional de Paraguacu Paulista. Brazil 2014
- First place on the cartoon contest “fiesta de Bogotá” on the category of charge (political cartoon). Organized by IDARTES. August 6, 2013. Bogotá.
- First Place . Caricature section dedicated to José Saramago on the XV Portocartoon Festival, Porto, Portugal, 2013
- Special Diploma on the NOSORG Magazine Cartoon Competition. “United States, how do you see them?”Bosnia-Herzegovina 2013