Featuring works in Book and Editorial Categories.

The Museum of Illustration at the Society of Illustrators is proud to present Illustrators 66, an annual exhibit featuring the most outstanding works of the year by leading contemporary illustrators worldwide. Voted on by a prestigious international jury of renowned illustrators, art directors, and designers, the Annual provides a platform to our global community to express, through illustration, the events and movements of our times. Documented through artists’ visual narratives, the Annual has become an important reflection of the past year and an archive of recent history for future generations to enjoy.

The Annual exhibit is hosted in two parts. Part 1 features work in the Uncommissioned, Advertising, Institutional, and Surface/Product Design categories. Part 2 features work in the Book and Editorial categories. Works that were juried into the Animation category are featured throughout the duration of the entire exhibit in the lower gallery Screening Room. Gold and Silver medals are awarded by the jury in each category. 

Works featured in the Book category All illustrations originally commissioned for use inside or on the covers of hardbound and paperback books, including fiction and nonfiction, children’s and young adult literature, and comic books. Gold Medals are awarded to Matija Medved for “Fabula Book Covers” (Client: Fabula/ Beletrina), Edel Rodriguez for “WORM: A Cuban American Odyssey” (Client: Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt), and Vikki Zhang for “The Lucky Red Envelope” (Client: Wide Eyed Editions, AD: Sasha Moxon,Lucy Brownridge). Silver medals are awarded to Eunhye Cho for “Campfire” (Client: Alma Publishing house (South Korea), AD: An Jimi), Sonia Pulido for “La campana de cristal / The Bell Jar” (Client: Random House Editorial, AD: Nora Grosse), and Simone Rea for “Historias a Buen Paso” (Client: A Buen Paso, AD: Arianna Squilloni). 

The Editorial category includes work commissioned by newspapers or magazines, medical and scientific journals, or online magazines. Gold medals are awarded to Tara Anand for “A Lost Opera Manuscript Discovered. A Century-Old Mystery Ignited” (Client: The New York Times Book Review, AD: James Blue), Kadir Nelson for “Afterglow” (Client: The New Yorker, AD: Francoise Mouly), and Deena So Oteh for “Doctor Post Roe” (Client: The New Yorker, AD: Nicholas Konrad). Silver medals are awarded to Pablo Amargo for “Crime” (Client: The New York Times, AD: Matthew Dorfman), Matija Medved for “Tish Harrison Warren Newsletter” (Client: The New York Times, AD: Sam Whitney, Akshita Chandra, Jordan Awan), and Ricardo Tomás for “Saving Time” (Client: The New York Times Book Review, AD: Catherine Gilmore-Barnes). 

The Society is proud to continue the SI Give Back Fund, an initiative created to address the economic and social challenges many are facing. This Fund enables the Illustrators Annual to be more accessible and inclusive by providing those without the means the ability to participate in the competition. Created through generous donations from the community and the Society, this year’s Fund covered the entry fees for 140 artists, and 13 of those artists had work juried into the show.