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Rayma Suprani

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Rayma Suprani

  • Editorial Cartoonist, Freelance

Rayma Suprani is a renowned Venezuelan-American award-winning editorial cartoonist, illustrator, and political satirist. Currently based in the United States, she works as an independent artist and recently exhibited her work in Houston, New York, Madrid, Barcelona, Mexico, Caracas, and Miami. From 1995 to 2014, Suprani was the editorial cartoonist at El Universal, one of Venezuela’s leading newspapers. During this period, she published highly influential political satire daily. As a result, she was fired, personally threatened by government representatives, and forced to leave the country. Among her many awards, she received the Vaclav Havel International Prize for Creative Dissident at the Oslo Freedom Forum in 2019. And she was featured in the Cannes Festival documentary film Cartoonists: Foot Soldiers of Democracy (Caricaturistes: Fantassins de la démocratie).

Events

Satire as Political Changemaker

Barbara Brandon-Croft, Laurent Dubois, Jeffrey Koterba, Pedro Xavier Molina, Rayma Suprani

A panel of esteemed editorial cartoonists discusses how accessible—and often humorous—illustrations can be used to comment on culture, corruption, censorship, and democratic norms.

10:00am - 11:00am
The Paramount Theater
Oct
21