BIO
Giulia Sagramola (Fabriano, Italy, 1985) is a freelance illustrator, cartoonist and graphic designer based in Bologna. She studied Graphic Design and Visual Communication at ISIA in Urbino and Illustration at Escola Massana in Barcelona.
She also creates handmade objects like her monster pillows, purses, tote bags, badges and t-shirts with her characters. She takes workshops for children and adults concerning how to make fanzines or starting comics.
In 2010 she started Teiera (Teapot), a selfpublishing label curated with Cristina Spanò and Sarah Mazzetti, in which they develop collective book projects.
She collaborates with Topipittori, The New Yorker, Einaudi, Mondadori, Giunti, Feltrinelli and more. Her blog was published in a comic book called "Milk and Mint" (2008). For Topipittori she published "Bacio a cinque" (2011), a graphic novel on her childhood and her last book "Sonno Gigante Sonno Piccino" (2014), an illustrated lullaby.
She likes traveling, watching tv series, listening to the Best Coast, drinking tea, stalking dogs. She lives in Bologna (Italy) where she constantly eats gelato.
SPECIALIZED STUDIES
2007/2010 MA degree in Visual communication at the ISIA, Urbino (Italy).
2008/2009 One Erasmus year at Escola Massana illustration course, Barcelona (Spain).
2004/2007 Bachelor degree in Visual communication at the ISIA, Urbino (Italy).
1999/2002 Comics course at the International School of Comics, Jesi (Italy).
1999/2004 Scientific High School Diploma, Fabriano (Italy).
Attended workshops held by: Pablo Auladell, Chiara Carrer, Simona Mulazzani, Max, Javier Zabala, Nicholas Blechman, Fabian Negrin, Steven Guarnaccia.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Comic Books
"Incendi Estivi", Bao Publishing (2015)
"Bacio a cinque", Topipittori (2011)
"Milk and Mint", PROGLO Edizioni (2008)
Picture Books
"Sonno Gigante Sonno Piccino" by Giusi Quarenghi, Topipittori (2014)
Editorial Illustrations
"Piccola Peg e la montagna di plastica" by Alessandro Gatti, Il Castoro (2014)
"¡Colegas!" by Raquel García Prieto, ELI Edizioni (2014)
"Piccola Peg va in città" by Alessandro Gatti, Il Castoro (2013)
"El blog de la Malika" by Gemma Lienas, Estrella Polar (2013)
"Pick-A-Land", con Cristina Spanò e Sarah Mazzetti, Teiera (2012)
"Bàsquet, scrabble i tu", by Sílvia Soler e Ferran Muñoz, Estrella Polar (2012)
"Non chiamatela Crudelia Demon", by Anna Lavatelli, Il Battello a Vapore (2012)
"Anche i dinosauri facevano la cacca!", by Dino Ticli, Edizioni Lapis (2011)
"Margherite per il marchese", by Giulia Zucchini, Giannino Stoppani Edizioni (2011)
"Melanzane e cioccolato", by Enza Emira Festa, Mondadori - I Sassolini (2010)
Fanzines
"Cosas Raras", Teiera (2010)
"Che cavolo dici?", Teiera (2010)
"Riunione di famiglia", Self Comics (2007)
"Decay, Delay, Attach!" n. 1, 2, 3, 4, Self Comics (2005/2008)
Short Comics in AA VV Anthologies and online
"Giovani, carini e tartassati!", Graphic News (2015)
"Limbos", Teiera 2014
"Waiting Rooms", Teiera (2014)
"Ten Steps In The City", Teiera (2013)
"Pop Corn", Teiera (2013)
"Infusi n.1 - Afa", Teiera (2012)
"Hellzarockin", Tunué (2012)
"My Favourite Place", Tentacoli (2012)
"Ten Steps Until Nothing", Teiera (2011)
"Amenità #1 - Dinosauri", Amenità Comics (2011)
"Foto di Gruppo", Teiera (2010)
"Global Warming, Immagini che producono azioni", NdA Press (2010)
"Mono n.8" Tunué (2010)
"Rojo Putón", Les Golfes (2010)
"Guida illustrata al frastuono più atroce vol. 2", Lamette (2010)
"Colibrì #2", Apa Apa Comics (2010)
"Fumetti Partigiani", Centro Fumetto Andrea Pazienza (2009)
"Sherwood Comix", Nicola Pesce Editore (2009)
"Black n.9", Coconino Press (2008)
"La terza Antologia", Self Comics (2008)
"Antologia Vol.2", Self Comics (2007)
"Mono n.3", Tunué (2007)
"Antologia Selfcomics 2005", Self Comics (2005)
SOLO & GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2014
"Waiting for Teiera", collective exhibition with Sarah Mazzetti, Roman Muradov and Cristina Spanò, for Teiera's book Limbos. The book and the exhibition were made in progress during 6 days of the BilBolBul Comic Festival, Bologna.
2013
"Bolognesa Spinnerei", solo exhibition with Sarah Mazzetti at ZOO, Bologna.
2012
"Mostra degli illustratori", selected illustrators of Bologna Children’s Bookfair, Bologna.
"Memoires d'un Doudou" collective of illustrators curated by Francesca Capellini, Paris.
"Livingroom" collective of illustrators curated by Uncles & Aunts, Bergamo.
"Spinnerei Autumn Rundgang" exhibition and art residency at Spinnerei, Leipzig (August/September).
"Muro come un pesce", collective of 40 illustrators, city center, Termoli.
"Ten steps until nothing", Teiera exhibition, Fat bottom, Barcelona.
"The Garden of Earthly Delights", collective of illustrators curated by Tuesday Bassen and Pete Gamlen, Light Grey Art Lab, Minneapolis, MN, USA.
"Giulia Sagramola, una personale" personal exhibition, Biancovolta, Viterbo.
"Camuffati", with Sarah Mazzetti, Elastico, Bologna.
"Fumetti Bambini", with Tuono Pettinato, Libreria Trame, Bologna.
"Giulia Sagramola, una personale" personal exhibition, Zuni Art, Ferrara.
"Erbario Animalo", curated by Zizì Collective, Il Posto, Bologna.
2011
"Bacio a cinque", comic book exhibition, Libreria per Ragazzi Giannino Stoppani, Bologna.
"Notre Fil Rouge", italian illustrators collective curated by Francesca Capellini, Paris.
"Weikap!", illustrators collective curated by Giulia Sagramola and Caterina Giuliani, Weikap! Festival, Tolentino (MC).
"Foto di Gruppo", collective exhibition from the book curated by Giulia Sagramola and Cristina Spanò (Teiera), Camera a Sud, Bologna.
2010
"Superheroes on the sofa", curated by Zizì Collective, Bologna.
"Ho detto frittata ha capito Tortilla", curated by Zizì Collective, gallery Tiendaderecha, Barcelona (Spain).
2009
"Zizì illustrators collective", curated by Zizì Collective, Médiathèque Hélène Berr/Picpus, Paris (France).
"Tafuzzy Days collective exhibition", indipendent music festival Tafuzzy Days, Rimini.
"Fumetti Partigiani", comics dedicated to Partisan Resistance, curated by Emiliano Rabuiti, Casa della Memoria e della Storia, Roma.
"Zizì illustrators collective", curated by Zizì Collective, Bologna.
2008
"Zizì illustrators collective", curated by Zizì Collective, Jesi (AN).
"Proiezioni su carta", collective of 29 illustrators curated by Giulia Sagramola, Fabriano (AN).