Berta Cusó is an award-winning illustrator and author from Barcelona based in Berlin.
She studied Architecture at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia, and Art and Architecture at the CCNY in New York City. Later, she complemented her education on illustration. Her background in architecture allowed her to work closely with artists and curators designing spaces for installations, festivals and shows internationally. Her pictorial work has been exhibited in Barcelona, New York, Madrid and Berlin.
Currently, her work focuses on illustration and comics. Her world is colorful, full of detail and often with an implicit humor, telling stories without the need for too many words. Her non-fiction comic Paral·lel about the nightlife of the cabarets in Barcelona during the last decades of the Spanish dictatorship was finalist at the International Ara Prize for Comics in Catalan in 2020.
With her graphic novel project about women in war, La conca dels àngels. Sis dones i massa guerres, she was one of the winners of the 2022 VEGAP in the illustration category; the book won the Núvol Sa il·lustríssima Award and the Vinyeta Ficomic Award for the best comic published in Catalan in 2025. With the work Que bèstia! L’extraordinària història del Circ Cric she won the Graphic Novel Prize Premi València 2025. She teaches at the Open University of Catalonia and leads workshops in Berlin.
Berta is represented by Ute Körner Literary Agency.
You can read more about Berta and her work at 2chairs artspace interview
Illustrations for: Acció>Cinema, Ajuntament de Barcelona, Andana Gráfica, L’Auditori, Barcanova Editorial, Bass World Magazine, Bindi Books, BVG (Berlin Public Transport), C.C. Casa Orlandai, Cavall Fort, Circ Cric, Cia. Pau Palaus, Comic Invasion Berlin, Corporació Catalana de Mitjans Audiovisuals, Diari Ara, El Cep i la Nansa Editorial, Extinció Edicions, Jot Down, La Boia, Núvol, Nutriexper, Pagès Editors, Planpolitik, Stop Mare Mortum, The Walkers Jazz Magazine, tip Berlin, Universitat de Barcelona, VÖBB (Berlin Public Libraries)
Winner of the Prize Vinyeta Ficòmic 2026 for the best comic book of the year published in catalan.
Winner of the Sa Il·lustríssima award, Premis Núvol 2025
Winner of the Graphic Novel award Premi València 2025
Finalist Hiii Illustration Awards 2022
Winner of Propuestas VEGAP 2022
Member of Picturebooks Berlin
Member of APIC (Professional Association of Illustrators of Catalonia)