Luiz Carlos Paulino, known as "Bizil," was born in Presidente Bernardes, São Paulo, Brazil, in 1967. A Brazilian visual artist, his work focuses primarily on painting, exploring themes such as memory, testimony, institutional violence, incarceration, spirituality, collective trauma, and human rights. As a survivor of the 1992 Carandiru Massacre, Paulino translates his personal experience into art of profound narrative and ethical weight, visually articulating episodes, figures, and structures associated with the Brazilian prison system. His paintings employ symbolism, expressivity, fragmented scenes, and non-linear perspectives to reconstruct memories of imprisonment and challenge official historical accounts, asserting the image as a tool for denunciation, processing trauma, and resistance. In 2025, he held his first institutional solo exhibition, *Luiz Paulino: The Inventory of the Carandiru Massacre — October 2, 1992*, at Solar dos Abacaxis in Rio de Janeiro, featuring a series of previously unseen paintings dedicated to the subject. In 2026, he presented works at SP-Arte in collaboration with Solar dos Abacaxis, garnering attention for the emotional and historical impact of his practice. Recent reports suggest interest in his work from the Pinacoteca de São Paulo and the National Museum of Fine Arts (Museu Nacional de Belas Artes); however, as of now, no public online collection records have been found to formally confirm the acquisition of these pieces by permanent museum collections.