Begoña Vicaro Calvo (Caracas, 1962) is a Doctor in Fine Arts with a thesis on experimental animation cinema in the Basque Country. She completed her postgrade studies at the Pilot Studio in Moscow with Tatarski and Sramkowski and later at the Vitoria Design Center. As a filmmaker, she has to her credit works such as Pregunta por mí (Ask for me 1997), Haragia (Human Flesh 2000), Beti Bezperako Koplak (Couplets for an everlasting eve, 2015 Agedakoplak collective), Areka (Ditch, 2016 Atxur collective) and Ehiza (Hunting, 2020, Hauazkena collective) all of them widely distributed and awarded at international festivals, including the Goya award, the Madrid experimental film festival award or the Zinebi Basque Film Grand Award.
She has also collaborated with other artists, such as for the video art project Denboraren Hariak, by Josu Rekalde, endowed with the prestigious Multiverso scholarship, he has written numerous articles and papers, several books on animated cinema, including Breve historia del cine de animación experimental vasco (1998-Madrid Experimental Film Week), Mamá, quiero ser artista: entrevistas a mujeres del cine de animación (Herguera, Vicario, 2004, Ocho y Medio) and Sistiaga, el trazo vibrante, 2008-Animadrid, International Film Festival animation), Euskal animazio zinema (In: Euskal zinema Bideo Bilera 40 urte. Vicario, Begoña. 2017, UPV/EHU) and Animated short film made by women in Spain (Annette Scholz and Marta Álvarez (Eds.). Cineastas emergentes. Mujeres en el cine del siglo XXI. Madrid: Iberoamericana, 2018).
Bego Vicario teaches the Degree in Art and the Master's in Contemporary Art (MACTP) at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the UPV/EHU and participates in various research projects. She currently coordinates the Hauazkena animation group and continues with her research tasks with Akmeka research IT1278-19 group, for research in contemporary art http://www.akmeka.org/.