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About:
Pingnan Lu is a Chinese illustrator and comics artist from Tianjin, currently based in New York City. She received her MFA in Illustration from the Fashion Institute of Technology in 2024.
Her distinctive visual style explores spatial narratives through distorted geometric forms, creating immersive visual experiences.
Alongside illustration, she is deeply interested in creative product design, artist books, and handmade bookmaking. She works across a range of printing processes, including letterpress, offset, Risograph, and screen printing, often incorporating these traditional techniques into her contemporary visual practice.
Her distinctive visual style explores spatial narratives through distorted geometric forms, creating immersive visual experiences.
Alongside illustration, she is deeply interested in creative product design, artist books, and handmade bookmaking. She works across a range of printing processes, including letterpress, offset, Risograph, and screen printing, often incorporating these traditional techniques into her contemporary visual practice.
Clients include:
The New York Times,
NPR, Bloomberg Businessweek, WIRED, Poetry Foundation, Vinepair, The New Republic, The New Statesman, Asian American Writers’ Workshop, China Books Review, Beijing Changjiang New Century Cultural Media Co., Ltd., Nanjing Publishing House.
Honors and Awards:
2024 JIA Illustration Award Judge
2023 Japan Illustration Award Silver Award
2023 3x3 International Illustration Awards Merit Award
2024 Communication Arts Award of Excellence
2024 World Illustration Awards Category Winner
2024 Society of Illustrators 66
2024 Ignatz Awards Promising New Talent Nominee
2024 iJungle Illustration Awards Merit Award
Self-Promotion x 2
2024 iJungle Illustration Awards Merit Award Comics
2024 3x3 International Illustration Awards Merit Award
2024The 9th China Illustration Biennial Merit Award
2025 American Illustration Chosen Winner x 3
2026 American Illustration Chosen Winner x 2
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︎ lupingnan8@gmail.com
︎@pingnanlu
