About

illustration - comics - emotional overindulgence

Kira Buro is an unidentified feeling object currently making things in and around Vancouver, BC. you can find them elsewhere on instagram and twitter, or stretching by the shore of the ocean most days and nights.

open to collaboration and freelance work -
feel free to reach out anytime thru kira.buro@gmail.com. <3 <3 <3

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Personal projects:

though much of my work is compulsive and has a tendency to spiral off in whatever direction the work itself chooses (notice how I am avoiding taking responsibility for this), occasionally I am able to wrangle that and focus on a larger body of work.

Cry Diary (one-panel retrospectives)
Come Home (game development)
Without You I Am Nothing (an illustrated anthology of writing)
Monochromatic Thought Pattern (black and white exploration)
They Tell Me There are Times (illustrated poetry)
Love Letters to the Improbable (illustrated letters)

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SCHOOLING

Honors Bachelor of Illustration at Sheridan College (2019)
California Arts Scholar at CSSSA, CalArts (2014)

Exhibitions

Sheridan College 3rd Year Illustrative Painting Spring Exhibition
Artscape Youngplace, Toronto (2018)

Cafe Mosaics Reopening Exhibition
Cafe Mosaics, Edmonton (2015)

AWARDS

Second Place in Independent Films
ASIFA East, New York City (2019)

Clients

Wares (2019)
Left At London (2019)
Birgit Rathsmann (2018)
Colin Carbonera (2016)

how sweet, the ways we witness one another

bf of the world coming to you alive and in love from my new apartment here in Vancouver ✨💛 I am tremendously lucky to have been planted here - to be held so tenderly by the ones I love, to rediscover what it means to commit to compassionate inquiry and vulnerability, to tread as honestly as possible along this path whilst falling openly into the uncertainty of it, laughing and swaying alongside these many currents. allowing myself change. there isn't much I have to say these days that isn't love or a tendril of it. my parents remarked recently that they almost don't recognize me within all of these shifts, how much of my anxiety and general malaise seems to have sluffed off and left me gleaming a bit more curiously after these months by the sea. breaking is opening!!! I am lucky. thank you for everything, all the time, all of you. also, my hair is growing! this is the longest it has been in three years or so.

summoning something, I'm sure ✨🐊 this is a drawing I made w @birdfingersss by the water yesterday afternoon, which is smth I'd like to do lots more of. outdoor drawing on grass with pencils scattered everywhere and yer fingers covered in blueberry love is my new favourite thing

my notebooks have filled with these sort of creature languages instead of words lately and I find myself not wanting to write really at all anymore. cycles, though

I climbed the stones alone and touched the white tree thrice my size that lay upon them with my open hand, and it felt like the entire world of that forest witnessed me, screamed at me in the hundreds of voices of my own life - and the water was the one to carve it all, will be the one to rid us of it

don't just sit there!!!! play with me, goddamnit!!! 😤

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