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Amalia restrepo-AGUIRRE

Hello! For me, illustrating is a way of understanding and connecting to my own reality. I recognize illustration as a universal language, where the meaning is not always on the surface, but the message is always there.

The majority of my work is an exploration of extremes, testing how much I can push an image in terms of proportion, scale, unusual combinations, and sometimes nonsensical scenarios in order to deliver a message.

I try to evoke dreams, magic, nostalgia, and a sense of strange familiarity, similar to the sense of returning to your childhood home, or a smell that transports you back in time.

CLIENTS INCLUDE

The Washington Post, Guideposts Magazine, Good Housekeeping Magazine, Angels on Earth Magazine, BJUPress, Breathe Magazine, DC Bar, Washington Lawyer Magazine, Bal Harbour Magazine, FCB Health, United World Schools, Abre Camino Collective, The Lazy Poet, Art House Records, Comfama, Tragaluz Ediciones, Cantoalegre Ediciones, Secretos para Contar Ediciones, Bagado Glacé, Philo & Sophie, Orquesta Sinfónica de Medellín, Vueltacanela, Mil y Una México, Casa Tinta, Alcaldía de Medellín, RioGrande, Protección, Casa Santamaría, Universidad EAFIT, Buencomienzo.

RELEVANT PRESS

AI-AP DART Interview

Brightness Magazine Exclusive Interview Issue 18

AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS

  • 2022, Society of Illustrators, Honorable Mention

  • 2020, iJungle Awards

  • 2020, Creative Quarterly 62

  • 2019, Adobe Design Achievement Awards TOP TALENT.

  • 2019, A’ Design Award.

  • 2019, The Brightness Award, Experimental.

  • 2019, Latin American Ilustración 8.

  • 2019, Libro Ilustradores Colombianos, Casa Tinta.

  • 2018, Creative Quarterly 54.

  • 2018, Creative Quarterly 53.

  • 2018, 3x3 Issue No.15.

  • 2018, Latin American Ilustración 7.

  • 2017, Red Dot Communication Design Award.

  • 2017, Latin American Ilustración 6.

  • 2017, Flamantes Libro de Jóvenes Artistas.

  • 2017, Illustrious Catalogue.

  • 2017, Honorable Mention, Artists' Book Competition.

  • 2017, Perro de Plata Award, Colombia.

EXHIBITIONS

  • 2019, Heimat, Fabrik der Künste, Hamburg.

  • 2019, Heimat, Casa Tinta, Bogotá.

  • 2019, Letras Ilustradas, Bello.

  • 2019, Women of Contemporary Illustration, Higher Art Gallery, Michigan.

  • 2018, Colombiamoda Design and Fashion Fair.

  • 2018, Feel the Feelings, Oglethorpe Gallery, Savannah.

  • 2018, Imagen Palabra, Perú.

  • 2018, Kunst Gallery, Berlin.

  • 2018, Port City, Savannah.

  • 2018, Colombiatex Design and Textile Fair.

  • 2017, Imagen Palabra, Bogotá.

  • 2017, Imagen Palabra, Medellín.

  • 2016, LaLaLeidis, Casa Santamaría Gallery, Bogotá.

M.F.A Illustration (SCAD)