Abril Barrado (born in Buenos Aires in 1975) graduated from the Escuela Superior de Bellas Artes "Emilio Caraffa" in Cosquín. She is a sculptor, draftsman, painter, and visual arts teacher who worked for over a decade in animated productions in Argentina, Spain, and the United States. The founder of the Escuela de Anatomía “Abril Barrado”, she has taught at Image Campus, the Universidad Nacional de las Artes, Plenty, Etermax, and the Universidad del Cine. In 2018, she won the First Prize for Sculpture at the Salón Nacional de Artes Visuales.
She has participated in solo and group exhibitions at the ISalón Internacional de Arte Contemporáneo "Angar 17" (Lisbon), the Salón Premio Senyera de Arte-Atarazanas (Valencia), the LIV Salón de Artes Plásticas “Manuel Belgrano”, the Museo de Artes Plásticas “Eduardo Sívori”, and the Centro Cultural "Néstor Kirchner”. In 2023, she inaugurated the exhibition "Barahúnda" at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Latinoamericano (accompanied by a video by Floerncia Barrabino) and, together with Gisela Banzer, the exhibition "Antropomórficos", curated by Rodrigo Alonzo, at the Banco Ciudad Central House.
