Elena Ospina is a Colombian painter, illustrator and cartoonist. She was born in 1963.
She began working as an illustrator of the newspaper El Espectador.
She has worked on creating and illustrating innumerable editorial and publicity projects in Europe and Latin America, and received more than 50 awards for her work in graphic humour. Her cartoons are published in books, newspapers and magazines. In 2017 her cartoon was on the cover of the catalog of the 21th Euro-kartoenale 'The Soul', and this year she was member of the jury of our contest ‘Chances and Opportunities’.
Elena was the only woman-cartoonist integrated in 80's in the famous group of artists, cultural managers and cartoon researchers called "El Cartel de Humor". She also initiated and has participated in the exhibition "Creative Women and the Art of Caricature" including 43 women from 22 countries, which is still travelling around the museums and galleries around the world.