Awards & Honors

2025 Silent Manga Audition 22, Excellence Award Runner-Up
IDA, Honorable Mention

2024 3x3 International Illustration Annual No. 22, Professional Show, Merit
Hiii Illustration 2024, No. 12
AI-AP American Illustration 43, Student

2023 Society of Illustrators Student Scholarship
3x3 International Illustration Annual No. 20, Student Show, Merit
Hiii Illustration 2023, No. 11
Carol and Murray Tinkelman Scholarship Award

Selected Publications

2025
SCAD Illustration Showcase 2025, p. 96
Visual Opinion, Vol. 30, Issue 5, pp. 28–29
Silent Manga Audition 22, Interview

2023
Artistonish, Issue 40

Hi! I’m an illustrator

Say Hello! ricyanillus@gmail.com

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Born and raised in Chengdu, China, Ric Yan is an illustrator whose work centers on storytelling through image-making. She received her B.F.A. in Illustration from the School of Visual Arts in New York in 2024 and will receive her M.F.A. in Illustration from SCAD in 2026. Her practice explores visual narrative, personal perspective, and contemporary illustration.