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Lily Qian ✨🏹
@lilyqian.bsky.social
Illustrator | Brooklyn
editorial • books • fashion
Pulitzer Prize nominated artist
faculty at FIT
📚A Cat in Central Park
🎨 https://www.lily-qian.com/
me & nüt
April 24, 2025 at 2:14 AM
At last, some good news! My illustration for the Poetry Foundation has been Selected for the American Illustration 44 book! Thank you to my AD Jeremy Lybarger, the jury, and American illustration @amillus.bsky.social Congratulations to the winners!

#AmericanIllustration44 #AI44
April 16, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Remade my Briar Rose 🌹 tunnel book with green side panels. I’m looking forward to making more tunnel books and playful form books in the near future :)
March 14, 2025 at 9:47 PM
zine production night - reprinted my mini ✨Treasures✨ zine in gold for MoCCA
February 21, 2025 at 4:09 AM
The 10th annual Red Envelope Show is now available online! Thank you Grumpybert x Harman Projects gallery. Mine are sold, but there are many other great pieces available!Link to the online show: harmanprojects.myshopify.com/collections/...
February 15, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Illo for the Poetry Foundation on two poetry collections using documentary style reflecting on the complexity of Black American life and history.
February 3, 2025 at 11:06 PM
mail day 🙃
January 25, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Hi! New year new work. Book review illo for The Nation on Nobel Prize Polish novelist, Olga Tokarczuk’s latest novel, The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story. An elegant and unsettling feminist noir rework of Mann’s “The Magic Mountain.”
January 16, 2025 at 6:55 PM