Daniel Arzola, Senior Graphic Designer

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Daniel Arzola (Maracay, Venezuela) is a visual artist, Human rights activist, and lecturer winner of a Trailblazer Honor Award from Logo TV for his contribution to the LGBTQ+ community. Daniel Arzola popularized the term "Artivism" being the creator of

"No Soy Tu Chiste" (I'm Not a Joke) a series of posters with approaches that face LGBTphobia becoming the first LGBT campaign to reach the media in Venezuela. “I’m Not a Joke” was also translated into twenty languages and supported via Twitter by the American singer Madonna. The I'm not a Joke project continues to be exhibited in different cities around the world, recently in Colombia, Chile, and France.

Arzola intervened in the first LGBTQ metro station in Latin America, The Carlos Jáuregui station of the Buenos Aires subway, which includes a mural of fourteen meters, stairs, and balconies allusive to the fight of Jáuregui and the LGBTQ community in Argentina. Daniel Arzola's theory of Artivism has given place at various conferences at universities in the United States such as Johns Hopkins University, Northwestern University, and Amherst College, also at the University of Alberta in Canada, The Simón Bolívar University in Venezuela, and the National University of Mexico.


Since 2016 Daniel Arzola has made posters for different queer film festivals around the world. Including the International Queer and Migrant Film Festival in Amsterdam, among film festivals in Chile, Uruguay, Macedonia and Albania.

Daniel Arzola

Specialties & Expertise:

  • Graphic Design
  • Photography