Bio - Andrew DeGraff is a freelance illustrator and artist living and working in Maine. He graduated from Pratt Institute's Communications Design program with a focus in Illustration in 2001. He returned to Pratt to teach illustration from 2009 - 2014 and now teaches illustration at the Maine College of Art & Design. In 2018 he published his second book, Cinemaps: An Atlas of 35 Great Movies from Quirk Books which won the Frankfurter Buchmesse Awards “Best Illustrated Book on Film”. Andrew has worked as an illustrator for clients such as: Visa, Sports Illustrated, Kellogg's, The New York Times, GAP Kids, Anthropologie, and Leo Burnett and has been featured in American Illustration, Communication Arts, and Society of Illustrators Annuals. His gallery work has been shown in New York, Paris, Philadelphia, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Honolulu, Albany, Calgary, Mexico City, and the Philippines.
Solo Shows
2020 Cinemaps, French Paper Art Club, Paris, France
2018 Cinemaps, Gallery1988, Los Angeles, California
2014 Cartography, Gallery1988, Los Angeles, California
2012 One Hour Of TV A Week, Gallery543, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Two Man Shows
2017 "Whereabouts", Andrew DeGraff and Steve Dressler, Gallery1988, Los Angeles, California
2013 Andrew DeGraff and Bennett Slater, Gallery1988, Los Angeles, California
2011 History of the World, with Owen Sherwood, Troy, New York
group shows (selected)
2022 Moleskine Project, Mesa Arts Center, Mesa, Arizona
2020 Moleskine Project at POW! WOW! Hawai’i, Honolulu, Hawai’i
2019 Apartment 5A, SpokeArt, New York, New York
2019 Winter is Here, SpokeArt, San Francisco, California
2015 Art Awakens, Gallery1988, Los Angeles, California
2013 Pratt Communication Design Faculty Show, Schafler Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
2012 Old School Video Game Show (Level 2), Gallery1988, Los Angeles, California
2012 Suspense & Gallows Humor - A Tribute to Hitchcock, Gallery1988, Los Angeles, California
2012 Crazy4Cult, Gallery1988 Pop-up Store, New York, New York
2011 Crazy4Cult, Gallery1988, Los Angeles, California
2011 LOL, Albany Airport Gallery, Albany, NY
2011 Please Post Bills, Gallery1988, Venice, California
2011 iam8bit Show, iam8bit Gallery, Los Angeles, California
2010 Crazy4Cult, Gallery1988, Los Angeles, California
2010 Twilight Zone Show, Gallery1988, Los Angeles, California
2009 Crusaders and Haters, Royal/T, Culver City, California
2009 Dime Bag 3, Giant Robot NY, New York, New York
2008 Dirty Laundry Show, Nu’uanu Gallery, Honolulu, Hawaii
2008 Panorama 3, Jonathan Levine Gallery, New York, New York
2008 Tides of March, Giant Robot NY, New York, New York
2007 The Shatner Show, Uppercase Gallery, Calgary, Alberta
2007 Snack Isle, Giant Robot NY, New York, New York
2007 Tree Show III, Giant Robot SF, San Francisco, California
2007 Downright, Pink Elephant Projects (pep), Brooklyn, New York
2007 Deep End, Aidan Savoy Gallery, New York, New York
LECTURES
2018 "You (Are Not) Really Here", Harvard's Houghton Library, Cambridge, MA