Who is Mario Nevado?
``I think everyone has a good story to tell. I bring them to life.``Mario Sánchez Nevado (Barcelona, 1985) is a Spanish freelance Illustrator and Art Director with a Bachelor’s Degree in Fine Arts with +15 years of experience in creating amazing cover artworks for bands and publishing houses all over the world.
His distinctive surreal signature on aesthetics, and his caustic approach on storytelling, has granted him a worldwide recognition of his career, working with clients the size of Adobe, Goodby Silverstein & Partners, Harlequin or Hachette. He was also one of the managers of the international artistic collective Hysterical Minds. Mario has given several lectures and workshops in London, Rome or Madrid, and has participated in Adobe’s Create Now, Photoshop Rockstars, Brief Festival or the Creative Pro Show, to name a few. His opus has travelled the world in exhibitions like Creatives Rising, that itinerated among others, to the MoMA and Guggenheim museums in New York. His artistic labor has been recognized by the Master Award on the digital art annual Exposé by two consecutive years, and the milestone of his career came when he participated in Adobe Photoshop’s 25th Anniversary campaign “Dream On” that was premiered on the 2015 Oscar Academy Awards and screened in Sundance, winning a Pencil D&AD Award, Three Cannes Festival Lions and an Emmy nomination.
With a solid but ever-evolving style, his striking collection is deeply woven with bold, stinging narratives, built with vibrant color palettes that lead to the atmospheres and scenery of the dream-like environments present in his body of work. Nevado’s message revolves about the epic and emotional interpretation of everyday life, where irony is recurrent and leads to a critique to society’s morals, distribution, politics or canons in an historical era dominated by shallow. Part magical storyteller, and part sober messenger of society’s ills, Mario’s work begs for a deeper consideration of the world around us.
About MeArt

Who is Mario Nevado?
``I think everyone has a good story to tell. I bring them to life.``Mario Sánchez Nevado (Barcelona, 1985) is a Spanish freelance Illustrator and Art Director Graduated in Fine Arts with a Major in Digital Arts by the University of Murcia, who creates artworks and designs for music bands and publishing houses worldwide
His distinctive surreal signature on aesthetics, and his caustic approach on storytelling, has granted him a worldwide recognition of his career. He has joined forces with clients of the size of Adobe, Goodby Silverstein & Partners, Harlequin or Hachette. He is also one of the managers of the international artistic collective Hysterical Minds and has written several workshops for PSD Tuts+ about digital imaging production. Mario has traveled Europe to give several lectures and workshops in London, Rome or Madrid, and has participated in Adobe’s Create Now, Photoshop Rockstars, Brief Festival or the Creative Pro Show, to name a few. His opus has travelled the world from Spain to the U.S., Cuba, UK or Brazil to exhibitions like Creatives Rising, that itinerated among others, to the MoMA and Guggenheim museums in New York. His artistic labor has been recognized by the Master Award on the digital art annual Exposé by two consecutive years, and recently, he participated in Adobe Photoshop’s 25th Anniversary campaign that was premiered on the 2015 Oscar Academy Awards and screened in Sundance, winning a Pencil D&AD Award, Three Cannes Festival Lions and an Emmy nomination.
With a solid but ever-evolving personal style, his striking collection is deeply woven with bold, stinging narratives, built with vibrant palettes that are the key to the atmospheres and scenery of the dream-like environments present in his body of work. Nevado’s universe is a sensorial interpretation of what he feels as human being and citizen of this world, conveying ideas of our behavior as emotional lifeforms in different contexts where irony can be found and lead to a recurrent critique to society’s morals, distribution, politics or canons in an historical era dominated by shallow. Part magical storyteller, and part sober messenger of society’s ills, Mario’s work begs for a deeper consideration of the world around us.
My Style
Epic Emotional ArtFrom surreal landscapes, to gothic portraiture, my style revolves about the emotional response of individuals surrounded by a context dominated by shallowness. My key ingredients: Surrealism and automatic writing, a bit of fantasy and the correct amount of darkness, but always with a burst of color and drama.
My Mediums
It's mostly digital, but...All the illustrations you see on this website come with a solid style after decades of experimentation with different mediums. This mix is called ``matte painting``: a mixture of photo manipulation, digital painting, and 3D. I try to shoot myself most of my resources, and the crazy textures you see in every other artwork, are hand painted by me.
My Expertise
Creating timeless cover artworksAll these ingredients are put on the blender to offer you what I do best: Covers. I have been working as a cover artist for 15 years, designing full albums, merch and stage elements for bands all over the world. I also create covers for books and will gladly spend my time in designing eye-catching posters for films. I feel comfortable working in other fields, but these three comprise my main areas of expertise.
Notable Achievements
Awards
Emmy Awards 2015 Nominee
Three Cannes Lions
Pencil D&AD
Digital Arts California
Two Exposé Master Awards
Exhibitions
Digital Dreams: Masterpieces of Computer Graphics
Sick Tales: 10 years of Mario Nevado
Creatives Rising
Art Takes Times Square
V Parallax Art Fair
Lectures
Photoshop Rockstars
Adobe’s Make It Layered, Make It Yours
Brief Festival
VII Creative Pro Show
I Symposium of Art & Psychology
Everyone's got a good story to tell.
What's yours?
Get in Touch_
Let’s talk about your next album, publication or film.
If you are looking to hire a freelance artist for your next project, don’t hesitate in reaching me for availability and quotes. My areas of expertise are editorial projects, music album packagings and film poster design – but not limited to them! I usually reply in the same day. Please, accompany your request with budget and deadline dates, if possible.
Also, if you have inquiries about my shop, my next live workshop or just have something nice to say, don’t be shy and do so! I create wicked stuff but I’m nice 🙂
Say hello at hey@marionevado.art