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ABOUT
Julie Benbassat is an award winning illustrator and painter based in Philadelphia. After graduating from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2019, she has gone on to amass a range of clients in editorial, publishing, games, and animation. Her work delights in the eccentricities and wonders of the natural world, indulges in the fantastical, mixes narrative and portraiture, and highlights the bridge between the cute and the horrific. In spare moments, she relishes reading sassy nonfiction, plein air painting on cloudy days, and watching bad (but good) horror movies.
For work inquiries and projects contact:
mail@juliebenbassat.com
For Literary and Publishing projects email : rsherman@writershouse.com
DOMESTIKA ONLINE COURSE
PRESS & FEATURES
Hollins KidLit Substack /
Extremely Live Podcast Interview /
Let's Talk Picture Books /
Shout Out LA / Girls Club Asia /
Boston Voyager / RISD Magazine /
Musemilk
BOOKS
Upcoming Projects (2026-2027)
Mungo On His Own (Winter 2026) written by Matthew Burgess
Tove Grows a Tree (Fall 2025) written by Larissa Theule
There's That Sun Again (Fall 2024) written by MK Smith Despres
The Book From Far Away (Fall 2023) written by Bruce Handy
The Screaming Hairy Armadillo (2020) written by Matthew & Steve Murrie
You be You! (2019) written by Jonathan Branfman
SELECT CLIENTS
NPR / The New Yorker / The New York Times / TIME / ILLUSTORIA / McSweeney's Publishing / PLANSPONSOR / PLANADVISER / The New Republic / BOOM! Comics / Cartoon Network / Narratively / Harmonix / Sports Illustrated Kids / The National Park Service / Workman Publishing / Holiday House / The Conservation Law Foundation / Orion Magazine /
The Washington Post / Yiddish Book Center / And more...
AWARDS / ACHIEVEMENTS
Society of Illustrators 67 Gold Medal, Editorial Single Image
Society of Illustrators 64, 65, 66, 67
American Illustration Selected Works 2024
American Illustration Archive 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023
Nautilus Silver Medal for Nonfiction 2020
Alan Peckolick Scholarship for Excellence in Illustration
Creative Quarterly 59
Light Grey Lab Residency 2019
Adobe Design Achievement Award: Top Talent 2019
John Randall Orth Award for Freelance 2019
3 x 3 No. 16 Professional Show, Merit 2019
3 x 3 Student Competition No. 16, Silver Medalist 2019
Society of Illustrators NY Student Competition 2018, 2020
Society of Illustrators West Competition 56, 57
Spectrum Fantastic Art 26
EXHIBITIONS
RESIDENCIES
2024
Solo Exhibition, Eleanor D Wilson Museum, Roanoke, VA
Sitting Outside III, Giant Robot, Los Angeles, CA
2023
Send Me Across the Sea VOl. 4, Helvella Gallery, Oakland, Ca
2021
The PUSH, High Line Nine, New York, NY
The Ticket Show Vol 1, Spazio Mec Gallery, Chiavari, Italy
2020
TOGETHER, Light Grey Art Lab, Minneapolis, MN
2019
Through the Woods and Worship Solo Show, Brown-RISD Hillel, Providence, RI
Secret Show Senior Exhibition, RISD Illustration Gallery, Providence, RI
Send Me Across the Sea Vol. 3, Tiny Alligator Collective, San Francisco, CA
2018
Salut Show III, Gallery Nucleus Portland, Portland, OR
Society of Illustrators Student Show, Society of Illustrators, New York, NY
Send Me Across the Sea Vol. 2, The Book and Job Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2017
Salut Show II, Gallery Nucleus Portland, Portland OR
RISD Illustration Triennial, Woods Gerry, Providence, RI
Invisible Venice, Scuola Internazionale di Grafica, Venice, Italy
2019
Light Grey Norway Creative Residency, Bergen, Norway
2018
Delaware Water Gap Student Artist in Residency, Bushkill, PA
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