Website: www.fernandacohen.com

Fernanda Cohen is a freelance illustrator from Buenos Aires who moved to New York in 2000 to study illustration at SVA. Thanks to the legendary Steve Heller, her first commissioned illustration was published in The New York Times Book Review the weekend of her graduation. She was commissioned to illustrate the cover of The New York Times Magazine the following year and she hasn't stopped since.

Fernanda's personal and commercial work has received over 70 awards worldwide, including a silver medal from the Society of Illustrators of New York, silver and gold medals from the Society of Illustrators of Los Angeles, first prize from Creative Review (U.K.), Altpick, Communication Arts, 3x3, Graphis and American Illustration.

Fernanda's client list includes MTV, The New Yorker, Scholastic, Target, W Hotels, DDB, BBDO, Time, The Guardian, Reader's Digest, Continental Airlines, Paper, Random House, Harvard Business Review and Glamour.

Today, Fernanda is a faculty member at SVA and the vice president of ICON, the illustration conference. She also runs a lecture series at the Society of Illustrators of New York; writes for American Illustration; lectures around the world; promotes her line of kitchenware, notebooks and handbags; and relentlessly works on her personal and commercial drawings.