Raúl Gonzalez III (b. El Paso, Texas), also known as Raúl The Third, three time Pura Belpre award-winning illustrator, author, and artist living in Boston, MA. Vamos! Let’s Cross the Bridge was awarded one of the year’s Best Illustrated Children’s Books of 2021 from the New York Times and the New York Public Library. He is currently adapting his World of Vamos! books into an animated television series with Silvergate Media and Mercury Filmworks. His work centers around the contemporary Mexican-American experience and his memories of growing up in El Paso, Texas and Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.

SELECT Exhibitions

• Political Discourse, University Hall Gallery, UMASS, Boston, MA, 2017

• Forbidden Frontera, Carroll and Sons, Boston, MA, 2016

• Nowhere/Everywhere, Thompson Gallery, Cambridge School, Weston, MA, 2016

• Raul Gonzalez and Elaine Bay: Books and Prints, Gelb Gallery at Phillips Academy, Andover, MA, 2015

• One Language is Never Enough, Fitchburg Museum of Art, Fitchburg, MA, 2014

• 75 Artist 75 Years, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA, 2011

• The Question of Drawing, Ogunquit Museum of American Art, Ogunquit, ME, 2011