Toto Duarte is a graphic designer, illustrator, muralist, and art director. She is drawn to building visual imaginaries, painting at large scale, creating independent publications, making props and sets for stop-motion, and any project rooted in ideation, sketching, and craft. She believes in the political, narrative, and transformative potential of images. She currently co-produces Festival Sobreimpresiones and collaborates on Cartografía de la Memoria Trans. She is an intersex, queer, and latina person based in Valparaíso (CL).
EDUCATION
2014 - Design, Universidad de Valparaíso (CL)
RESIDENCIES
2026 - Alquimia: Experimental Animation Laboratory (CL)
2025 - EMUC: Coal Muralists Gathering (CL)
2022 - Soma Publicaciones (PE)
2017 - Camino en Costura (12NA y Nakamas), Collaborative Art Residencies, Red Cultura (CL)
FAIRS & FESTIVALS
FADI: Festival de Arte Disidente
MIGRA (ARG)
Juntas (ARG)
Festival Sobreimpresiones
Plan Feria
Sacapuntas
Comiqueras
Impresionante
Festival Léeme (PE)
Fanzinetopía (COL)
Feria de Rayas
Festival Acero
Fanzinogamia (EC)
Entreviñetas (COL)
Feira Plana (BR)
Furia del Libro
FILSA
FESTILUS
2014 - Design, Universidad de Valparaíso (CL)
RESIDENCIES
2026 - Alquimia: Experimental Animation Laboratory (CL)
2025 - EMUC: Coal Muralists Gathering (CL)
2022 - Soma Publicaciones (PE)
2017 - Camino en Costura (12NA y Nakamas), Collaborative Art Residencies, Red Cultura (CL)
FAIRS & FESTIVALS
FADI: Festival de Arte Disidente
MIGRA (ARG)
Juntas (ARG)
Festival Sobreimpresiones
Plan Feria
Sacapuntas
Comiqueras
Impresionante
Festival Léeme (PE)
Fanzinetopía (COL)
Feria de Rayas
Festival Acero
Fanzinogamia (EC)
Entreviñetas (COL)
Feira Plana (BR)
Furia del Libro
FILSA
FESTILUS
PRESS
AGÜITA PODCAST: Isla bonita
PICTOLINE: Illustration Biennial
METRO 21: "The Faces of Water x Toto Duarte"
CONVERSE: "The Breezes of Playa Ancha by Otto Etraud"
GALERÍA EN .MOV: "I Am a Monster Who Learned to Speak"
METRO 21: "Borders on the Land and in the Body"
PLATAFORMA CRÍTICA: "Nobody Saves Anyone But Nobody Saves Themselves Alone"
VICE: "Four LGBT Artists You Should Be Following"
POUSTA: "If You Don't Come Across Intersex or Trans People in Your Life, You Wouldn't Know We Exist"
PAULA: "The New Wave of Chilean Illustrators"
PANIKO: "The Drawings of Toto Duarte"
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 - Untitled
Centro Cultural Anandamapu, Santiago (CL)
2020 - Our stories are different but there are common threads
EXE Estudio, Buenos Aires (AR)
2017 - Everything I'll miss when I die
CENTEX, Valparaíso (CL)
2014 - Underground
Puerto Blanco, Valparaíso (CL)
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 - Rincones Urbanos ( Urban Corners)
Museo Palacio Rioja, Viña del Mar (CL)
2023 - Vorágine (curated by Tobal Opazo)
CityLab Global, GAM, Santiago (CL)
2023 - Comic Strips of Sea and Valleys (curated by Dibujos que Hablan)
Casa Palacio, Santiago and Biblioteca Santiago Severín, Valparaíso (CL)
2022 - Y si fueras tú ( What If It Were You)
Centro Cultural La Moneda, Santiago (CL)
2022 - Valle de Chili (curated by Jocelyn Muñoz Baez)
Museo de la Solidaridad Salvador Allende, Santiago (CL)
2018 - Double Earth (with Camil Barral)
Espacio los Únicos, Lima (PE)
AGÜITA PODCAST: Isla bonita
PICTOLINE: Illustration Biennial
METRO 21: "The Faces of Water x Toto Duarte"
CONVERSE: "The Breezes of Playa Ancha by Otto Etraud"
GALERÍA EN .MOV: "I Am a Monster Who Learned to Speak"
METRO 21: "Borders on the Land and in the Body"
PLATAFORMA CRÍTICA: "Nobody Saves Anyone But Nobody Saves Themselves Alone"
VICE: "Four LGBT Artists You Should Be Following"
POUSTA: "If You Don't Come Across Intersex or Trans People in Your Life, You Wouldn't Know We Exist"
PAULA: "The New Wave of Chilean Illustrators"
PANIKO: "The Drawings of Toto Duarte"
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 - Untitled
Centro Cultural Anandamapu, Santiago (CL)
2020 - Our stories are different but there are common threads
EXE Estudio, Buenos Aires (AR)
2017 - Everything I'll miss when I die
CENTEX, Valparaíso (CL)
2014 - Underground
Puerto Blanco, Valparaíso (CL)
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 - Rincones Urbanos ( Urban Corners)
Museo Palacio Rioja, Viña del Mar (CL)
2023 - Vorágine (curated by Tobal Opazo)
CityLab Global, GAM, Santiago (CL)
2023 - Comic Strips of Sea and Valleys (curated by Dibujos que Hablan)
Casa Palacio, Santiago and Biblioteca Santiago Severín, Valparaíso (CL)
2022 - Y si fueras tú ( What If It Were You)
Centro Cultural La Moneda, Santiago (CL)
2022 - Valle de Chili (curated by Jocelyn Muñoz Baez)
Museo de la Solidaridad Salvador Allende, Santiago (CL)
2018 - Double Earth (with Camil Barral)
Espacio los Únicos, Lima (PE)