Professor Carrillo studied visual art in Barcelona, Spain with a MFA from IDEP Barcelona, Escola Superior d'Imatge i Disseny/ Abat Oliba University. He has been working as a visual artist & art educator for well over two decades. His artwork have been published by, among others, Playboy Magazine (Spain), Courrier International (France), Disney Publishing Group (Spain), El Periódico de Catalunya (Spain), El Jueves Magazine (Spain), EATN Magazine (Germany, UK, France) The Washington Times (U.S.A). As a Concept Artist, he also worked for clients like the XV Summer Olympic Games of Barcelona, The Liceu Opera House Barcelona, The Washington GALA Theater, Capital Fringe Festival, and Barcelona Fashion Week. In 1995 he was invited to teach illustration courses at Escola Bau and IDEP Barcelona, where he stayed for more than a decade teaching graduate and undergraduate levels. Later he moved to the Washington area and worked as a digital instructor at the Art Institute of Washington, and taught at the illustration department at the Maryland Institute College of Art, as well as at the Fine Arts Department of the Corcoran School of the Arts and Design at the George Washington University, Washington D.C.

Award of Excellence given by The Society Of Newspaper Design, Excellence Award given by The Illustrator Club of Washington, Virginia, Maryland, and Excellence Award given by the Communication Arts Illustration Annual.