Inácio Vilariño is a graduate of  fine Arts from the University of Vigo. He has been a member of the Institute for Traditional Literature Studies at the Universidad Nova in Lisbon (IELT) since 2006, working on the 'Grandepequeno' project and the exhibition: 'Grandepequeno: misérias, galinhas e cabeçudos'. He is currently a member of the puppet company Fantoches Baj, which he founded in 2006. From 2001 to the present, he has collaborated on various shows with the Galician theatre company Os Quinquillans. In 2004 he founded the company Orfanato Albert Ansot de Gramont. From 1993 to 2005, he co-founded the puppet company Seisdedos with Anxo Garcia. From 1990 to 2006 he was a member of the Galician puppet company Viravlota, where he worked as a handler, set designer and constructor on various stagings. In 2001 he founded the Galician Museum of Puppetry.