Matías Nicólas Paradela (aka Niño Grande), born in 1989 in Tolosa, Argentina, is a painter. He has a Bachelor’s Degree in Fine Arts from the school of the University of La Plata, specializing in Social and Design Studies. He briefly studied sculpture at the National Theater of La Plata city. When he was 17 years old, he was an art teacher, and later, he also began teaching morphology for industrial design. He started his art career as an art director for animation, specifically stop-motion films, in Celeste Studio founded by the filmmaker Yashira Jordan, who began collaborating with him in 2013. Paradela had his first solo show in La Paz, Bolivia, in 2014. There, he met his mentor, Keiko González, an important abstract expressionist painter who generously opened his studio and gave him all his materials to work with. They continue collaborating with each other, painting every year in Malvern, a studio house in Memphis, Tennessee together with the artist Mary Jo Karimnia. Paradela is now represented by Kiosko Gallery in Bolivia and PARA A in Mexico City.