Berta Cusó is a Catalan illustrator and comic artist based in Berlin and Barcelona. She studied Architecture at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia and Art and Architecture at the CCNY in New York.

Later, she complemented her training in illustration at the AID (Berlin) and the Espai Francesca Bonnemaison (Barcelona).

Her architectural training has allowed her to work closely with artists and curators, designing spaces for installations, festivals and performances internationally.

Her artwork has been exhibited in Barcelona, New York, Madrid, and Berlin.

Currently, her work focuses on illustrations and comics, creating a visual world rich in detail and often infused with implicit humour to tell stories with minimal words. Her non-fiction comic Paral·lel, about the night-life in Barcelona’s cabarets during the last decades of the Spanish dictatorship, was shortlisted for the International Ara Prize for Comics in Catalan in 2020, and her graphic novel about women in war was one of the winners of the Propuestas VEGAP in 2022.

Above all, she prioritises work on projects that are committed to the planet, minorities, human rights and culture. Since 2020, she has been teaching drawing and graphic expression for the Open University of Catalonia (UOC).