The Brightness Illustration Awards is delighted to announce the 40 illustrations that have been selected for the BIA 2022! Established in 2019, the Awards celebrate excellence in four categories of contemporary practice: Children’s book art, Editorial illustration, Unpublished illustration, and Teenagers and adults book art.
In July 2021, we opened our call to 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 2000+ entries were submitted by illustrators from 80 countries for this year’s awards. This was followed by a competitive judging process to find the 40 longlisted projects, from which the final shortlist of 12 illustrations has been selected.
Here are the Professional Award winners chosen by the jury for each category, including Children’s book art, Editorial illustration, and Unpublished and Teenage book art. This year’s judging panel included international professional illustrators such as Joanna Concejo, Paul Garland, Sonja Danowski, Kieren Phelps, Marco Palena, and Narjes Mohammadi.
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Children’s Books
First Place
Haleh Ghorbani – Iran
Second Place
Dina Riyanti – Indonesia
Third Place
Olga Fadeeva – British
Books
First Place
Marco Leoni – Italy
Second Place
Benjamin Phillips – UK
Third Place
Miriam Tritto – Italy
Editorial
First Place
Dwayne Huang – CHINA
Second Place
Anya and Varya Kendel – Russian
Third Place
Jessie Lin – China
Unpublished
First Place
Zhiwen(Esther) Tang – China
Second Place
Liubov Edwards – British
Third Place
Angelina Bloshchitsyna – Belarusian
View the full longlist here:
Children’s books
ANNA FONT GARCIA-España
LauravMontes- spain
Marina Velasco Marta-Spain
Monty Lee-Australia
Narjes Khatoun (Sara) Saberi Foumani-Iran
Steven Van Hasten-Belgium
yeganeh yaghoobnezhad-Iran
Editorial
Banafshe fesharaki-iran
Ellie Wang-The United States
Flore Deman-Belgium
Jiazhen Cai-Chinese
Kamila Rakhimzhanova-Russia
Massimiliano di Lauro-Italy
Zuzanna Kwiecien-Poland
Unpublished
Daria Rosso-Italy
Domagoj Šokčević-Croatian
Jingjing Cao-China
Maggie Yang-United Kingdom
Mila García-España
TONGTONG HUANG-China
Yuying Herr-China
Book
DariaYakovishina-russia
Doug Dabbs-United States
HAO GU-ChIna
Natalia Efremova-Russian
Peilin Li-China
Yevgenia Nayberg-United States
Zijun Zhao-China
Brightness Award 2022 Prizes
The Brightness competition is a non-profit event open 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. Finalists will benefit from exhibiting, and showcasing their work to art critics and art directors. Our aim at Brightness Magazine is to promote your art, and not to own it. You will continue to own all rights to your work. We are simply looking for you to grant us the rights to feature your art and promote you as an artist. Think of this as an exciting collaboration with other artists and a great way of creating a global cooperative movement in the illustration industry.