American Illustration 45

Illustrations by Artists at Heart that have been selected for this year’s American Illustration competition, AI45

 Selected winners will be published in both the printed annual book and the online archive

 Chosen winners will be published in the online archive
 

Above : George Wylesol 'Digikey PCB Ruler - Expanded' - Selected

Above: Renaud Vigourt A mural artwork produced for Reddit CEO Steve Huffman's office at the company's new headquarters in San Francisco. The artwork contains various easter eggs based on Huffman's career and interests as well as their infamous Snoos - Selected

Above: Brett Ryder An artwork for a Health Affairs' Narrative Matters article, 'For people who use substances, pregnancy and parenthood can be filled with fear, stigma, and isolation' - Selected

Above: Yann Kebbi Artworks for Harper's Magazine for a piece entitled 'The Good Pervert' written by David Velasco about the brutal death of his friend Brent Sikkema - Selected

Above: Yann Kebbi Portrait of a young Thomas Pynchon for a review about his latest novel "Shadow Ticket" for the New York Review of Books - Selected

Above : Petra Péterffy 'What It’s Like to Brainstorm with a Bot' for The New Yorker - Chosen

Above : Romy Blümel Portrait of the writer Katie Kitamura for the New York Review of Books - Chosen

Above : Michelle Mildenberg Lara Artwork for Heart 
Agency's 30th anniversary book "What Happened". To celebrate this milestone, artists were asked to create images inspired by a personal or historic event from one year between 1994 and 2025. Michelle's artwork is her memory of "Watching the World Cup final between France and Croatia from a bar in Amsterdam - the day I decided to make this city my home" - Chosen

Above:  Zoé Maghamès Peters An artwork for a New York Times book review of Olivie Blake’s darkly comedic campus novel “Girl Dinner” that explores the intersection of feminist ambition and academia with a light side of cannibalism - Chosen

Above: Ben Jones Artwork for the cover of Jacobin magazine on the theme of surviving an age of regression.

"Born in the seventeenth century, our faith in progress is now at death’s door. Sociologist Göran Therborn traces the idea’s history — and argues that it must be revived" - Chosen

Above: Simon Pemberton A cover artwork for the Washington Post Arts & Style Section examining the current relevance of the Silver Surfer as a superhero of our times - Chosen