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The Brightness Illustration Awards is delighted to announce the 60 illustrations that have been selected for the BIA 2020! Established in 2019, the Awards celebrate excellence in four categories of contemporary practice: Children’s book art, Editorial illustration, Experimental illustration and Teenagers’ book art.

In July 2020, we opened our call to both amateur and professional artists from any country. The aim is to give artists the ultimate platform to develop their passion and career in the illustration sector. An incredible 1000+ entries were submitted by illustrators from 70 countries into this year’s awards. This was followed by a competitive judging process to find the 60 longlisted projects, from which the final shortlist of 12 illustrations has been selected.

Here are the Professional Award winners are chosen by the international industry jury for each of the categories including Children’s book art, Editorial illustration, Experimental and Teenagers’ book art. This year judging panel including industry names such as Devis Grebu, Brian Grimwood, Glenda Sburelin and Masoud Mojaveri Agah.


Category Winners
Children’s book
First Place: Mahsa Hedayati
Second Place: PO-SHU WANG
Third Place: Francesca Dell’Orto

Editorial
First Place: Hung-Ling Chen
Second Place: Claire Huntley
Third Place: Flore Deman

Experimental
First Place: Lucas León
Second Place: Giuseppe Mascheroni
Third Place: Alessandro Coppola

Teenagers’ book
First Place: Marco Palena
Second Place: Giuseppe Mascheroni
Third Place: Parniyan Shabaninezhad

view the full longlist here

Children’s books
Aleksandra Dolzhnitskaia (Russia)
Yao Jian (China)
Pamela Chen (China)
Elena Font Vázquez (Spain)
Salimeh Babakhan (Iran)
Xiaofeng Zhu (China)
Ekaterina Toporova (Russia)
Mariella Cusumano (Italy)
Varya Yakovleva (Russia)
Hale Ghorbani (Iran)
Giuliana Marigliano (Italy)
Mahsa Hedayati (Iran)
Francesca Dell’Orto (Italy)
Hannah Cunningham (America)
PO-SHU WANG (Taiwan)

Editorial
Alice Su (Ukraine)
Delphine Balme (France)
Hung-Ling Chen (Taiwan)
MINAKO TOMIGAHARA (America)
Francesca Shaw (Chilean American)
Janas Lau (Hong Kong)
Claire Huntley (British)
Ekachai Aek Chuensombat (Thai-Australian)
Wei Su (Canada)
Driss Chaoui (France)
Doug Dabbs (America)
Vanessa Cittadino(Italy)
Dimas MacDonald (America)
Flore Deman (Belgium)
Hannah Cunningham (America)

Experimental
Hung-Ling Chen (Taiwan)
Mila García (Spain)
NEKO JIANG (China)
Giuseppe Mascheroni (Italy)
Moloud Etebarzadeh (Iran)
Camila Nogueira (Portugal)
Lucas León (Chile)
Alessandro Coppola (Italy)
Devanand Gujar (India)
Maryam Khaleghiyazdi (America)
MrKrazyMan Leiva (Guatemala)
Varya Yakovleva (Russia)
YU CAI (China)
Sima yazdani (Iran)
Daria Rosso (Italy)

Teenagers’ book
Mahnaz Ebrahimi (Iran)
Sahar Khaleghi (UK)
Olesia Krivolapova (Ukraine)
Emanuela Orciari (Italy)
Giuseppe Mascheroni (Italy)
Parniyan Shabaninezhad (Iran)
Laura Montes (Spain)
Alessandro Coppola (Italy)
Andrey Naumov (Russia)
Belgheis Faraji (Iran)
IDOIA IRIBERTEGUI (Spain)
Dansiyu Zhu (China)
Shuyi An (China)
SIGAL CASPIN SEGAL (Israe)
Marco Palena (Italy)

Category Winners

Children’s book

Editorial

Experimental

Teenagers’ book

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