hello!

I'm Carolina and I'm an illustrator, tattoo artist and graphic designer.

Cara Trancada was born in 2016 and it's where I explore my erotic imagination, relationships and sexuality in the form of provocative and colorful artwork, with the use of some irony, comedy and vulnerability.

I run everything by myself: the website/shop, the handling and shipping of orders, creating artwork, tattooing and even printing my own t-shirts and tote-bags.

Welcome to my world!

About

work & collaborations

2024. Collaboration with Sock Affairs - 2 designs for "I AM WOMAN"
2024. Label for Cerveja Musa - SexuAle Healing 
2022. Illustrations for Cerveja Musa for the event, pack & zine Tusa na Musa
2022. Cara Trancada x Romer: Collection of 3D printed earrings
2021 & 2022. Illustrations & Logo for Roots Vin Butik, Denmark
2021. Cara Trancada x Papaia Sexshop
2020. Illustration for Ilustrário do Amor Próprio, curated by Catarina Maia (O Meu Útero)
2020. Collab & Label Design for Vinhos Aparte
2020. Illustration in As Feministas Também Usam Soutien published by Penguin Random House for APAV
2021. Cara Trancada x Savage Digital Agency
2019. Cuscuz x Dayclub x Cara Trancada: "Sit On My Nose"
2019. Cover for MELANCIA mag
2019. Design & Ilustration for Mapa para o Prazer Anal, for SexxxEd


exhibitions & workshops

2024. Workshop "Desenha uma Fantasia" no Festival A Porta, Leiria
2023. Collective Exhibition "UNASHAMED.", Fábrica do Braço de Prata
2019. "Summer Fling" at Circus Network, Porto, Portugal - Collective Exhibition
2019. "O Prazer É Todo Meu" at Selina Porto, Porto, Portugal - with Clara Não
2018. Censura/Natura at Quarteirão das Artes, Almada, Portugal - Solo Exhibition
2017. Casa Independente, Lisboa, Portugal - Solo Exhibition

tattoo events

2023. Grrls To The Front, Musa de Marvila
2023. Mercado Maroto, Fábrica do Braço de Prata
2023. 9th B-Day, Village Underground
2022. Tusa na Musa, Cerveja Musa

artistic residencies

2019. LAC – Laboratório de Actividades Criativas, Lagos, Portugal - Artistic Residency
2018. Fundação Bienal de Arte de Cerveira, Vila Nova de Cerveira, Portugal - Artistic Residency 

press

2023. Artigo biográfico for Revista CRISTINA
2020. Interview for dezanove
2019. Interview for MELANCIA mag