Donato Giancola (1967)

Donato Giancola was born in Colchester, Vermont, USA in 1967. Since beginning his professional career in 1993, Donato's list of clients has grown to include major book publishers and collectors in New York to concept design firms on the West Coast: notables include The United Nations, LucasFilm, National Geographic, CNN, DC Comics, Microsoft, The Village Voice, Playboy Magazine, US Postal Service, Wizards of the Coast , Scholastic, Simon&Schuster, Tor Books, Random House, Time/Warner, The Scifi Channel, Milton-Bradley, and Hasbro. Merits range from the prestigious Hamilton King Award from the Society of Illustrators to nineteen Chesley Awards from the Association of Science Fiction and Fantasy Artists, three Artist Hugo Awards for outstanding professional work from the World Science Fiction Society, notable awards from the Art Renewal Center, and multiple silver and gold medals from the juried annual Spectrum: The Best of Contemporary Fantastic Art.

Orlando Arocena

Orlando Arocena was born in United States. He's a Mexican-Cuban American artist specializing in digital illustration. The clean, angular nature of vector illustration lends itself to a certain sci-fi flavor that permeates throughout Arocena’s work. As a Pratt Institute graduate in design, orlando used his interest in art history and culture to inspire his work. Now, Orlado is a creative consultant working on some of the largest brands in the world.

Terry Rodgers (1947)

Terry Rodgers was born in New Jersey, United States in 1947. He is known for his large scale canvases that focus on portraying contemporary body politics. He graduated cum laude from Amherst College in Massachusetts in 1969, with a major in Fine Arts. His strong interest in film and photography influenced his style in the direction of representational realism in art.

Joshua Budich (1977)

Joshua Budich was born in 1977. He lives in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. He is a freelance artist, illustrator and kick-ass designer.

James Gurney (1958)

James Gurney was born in Glendale, California, United States in 1958. He is an artist and author best known for his illustrated book series Dinotopia, which is presented in the form of a 19th century explorer’s journal from an island utopia cohabited by humans and dinosaurs.

Gurney's freelance illustration career began in the 1980s, during which time he developed his characteristic realistic renderings of fantastic scenes, painted in oil using methods similar to the academic realists and Golden Age illustrators. He painted more than 70 covers for science fiction and fantasy paperback novels, and he created several stamp designs for the US Postal Service, most notably The World of Dinosaurs in 1996.

Mort Künstler (1931)

Mort Künstler was born in Brooklyn, New York, United States in 1931. He is an American artist known for his illustrative paintings of the American Civil War. His works are primarily sold as mass-produced printed reproductions. Künstler is also known for earlier commercial illustration before turning to Civil War themes in the early 1980s, a body of work that dealt with America's national story: from portraits of prehistoric American life to the odyssey of the space shuttle. His work has also been published in illustrated books and magazines and used by advertising agencies.

Colin Geller

Colin Geller works in California, United States. He is a professional Concept Artist currently working at Insomniac Games. Colin has worked in the game industry creating concept art for game titles such as Ratchet and Clank: A Crack in Time, Overstrike and Resistance 3.

Feng Zhu (1977)

Feng Zhu was born in California, United States, in 1977. He is a well-known concept artist who has done work for various Hollywood studios and game developers, including Electronic Arts, Blur Studio, Disney, Sierra, MTV, Universal, Industrial Light + Magic, and the Skywalker Ranch where he worked on Star Wars Episode III.

Besides his professional work, he has also been teaching at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena and making Gnomon instructional DVDs.

Virgil Finlay (1914 - 1971)

Virgil Warden Finlay was born in Rochester, New York, United States, in 1914. He was a pulp fantasy, science fiction and horror illustrator. While he worked in a range of media, from gouache to oils, Finlay specialized in, and became famous for, detailed pen-and-ink drawings accomplished with abundant stippling, cross-hatching, and scratchboard techniques. Despite the very labor-intensive and time-consuming nature of his specialty, Finlay created more than 2600 works of graphic art in his 35-year career.

The Science Fiction Hall of Fame inducted Finlay in 2012.

Ralph McQuarrie (1929 - 2012)

Ralph Angus McQuarrie was born in Gary, Indiana, United States, in 1929. He was a conceptual designer and illustrator who designed the original Star Wars trilogy, the original Battlestar Galactica TV series, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial and Cocoon, for which he won an Academy Award, Close Encounters of the Third Kind,  Raiders of the Lost Ark and Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home.

McQuarrie worked as a technical illustrator for Boeing, as well as designing film posters and animating CBS News's coverage of the Apollo space program at the three-man company Reel Three.

Stanley Meltzoff (1917 - 2006)

Stanley Meltzoff was born in New York, United States, in 1917. He painted covers and interior spreads for the likes of Life, National Geographic, Saturday Evening Post, The Atlantic, and many others. His 65 covers for Scientific American was an indication of the good company that demanded his work. Today his art hangs in the National Gallery (Smithsonian), Getty Museum, and many other world-class institutions.

Bowing to the times, he switched gears and began painting saltwater game fish in their undersea environments.

Richard M. Powers (1921 - 1996)

Richard M. Powers was Born in Chicago, Illinois, United States, in 1921. He began by working in a conventional pulp paperback style, but quickly evolved a personal Surrealist idiom influenced by the cubists and surrealists, especially Picasso and Yves Tanguy. He also dabbled in abstract art and collage at a later age before dying in 1996 at the age of 75.

From the 1940s through the 1960s, he did many of covers for Doubleday. During the 1950s and 1960s, he served as an unofficial art director for Ballantine Books.

Michael Whelan (1950)

Michael Whelan was born in Culver City, California, United States, in 1950. He is an artist of imaginative realism. For more than 30 years he worked as an illustrator specializing in science fiction and fantasy cover art. Since the mid-1990s he has pursued a fine art career, selling non-commissioned paintings through galleries in the United States and through his website.

The Science Fiction Hall of Fame inducted Whelan in June 2009, the first living artist so honored. According to his Hall of Fame citation:

"Michael Whelan is one of the most important contemporary science fiction and fantasy artists, and certainly the most popular. His work was a dominant force in the transition of genre book covers away from the surrealism introduced in the 1950s and 1960s back to realism."

Ed Valigursky (1926 - 2009)

Edward Ignatius Valigursky was born in Arnold, Pennsylvania, United States in 1926. He studied at the Art Institute of Chicago on the G. I. Bill. He completed his studies at the Art Institute of Pittsburgh. He illustrated books for such publishers as Bantam Books, Ballantine Books, Lippincott, Macfadden Publications, and Time-Life Books. He illustrated science fiction novels by Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, and Ray Bradbury.

In the 1970s he was invited to NASA to illustrate the spectacular space program for Popular Mechanics, where he continued to work until the 1980s.

Julie Bell (1958)

Julie Bell was born in Beaumont, Texas, United States, in 1958. Julie has painted the covers for approximately 100 fantasy/science fiction books and magazines since 1990. In the early 1990s, she illustrated painted covers for video games as well as best-selling trading cards for the superheroes of Marvel and DC. A cover art image from the Sega Game Gear video game Ax Battler: A Legend of Golden Axe would depict the semi-barbaric world that the game took place in; thus being entitled Savage Land by Bell herself.

Chris Turnham

Chris Turnham was born in Southwest Washington, United States. He holds an Associates Degree in 3D Computer Animation. After years in the video game and entertainment industries working with the likes of Nintendo and the feature film Coraline, Chris now creates art for children’s books, animated commercials and the hand-painted silkscreens seen in the gallery. Now he lives at Los Angeles, California.

Cory Jespersen

Cory Jespersen is a graphic designer and illustrator from Portland, Oregon, United States. For over 12 years, he’s run the gamut of clients, including Kroger, Fred Meyer, PetSmart, Person Group, and Audigy Group. His skill set is vast, but his greatest expertise revolves around the worlds of print design, environment design, brand identity, illustration, and digital media. His wish is to combine his knowledge and experience in these areas to deliver the best creative to Audigy Members and audiences.

Cory is also an award-winning illustrator and oil painter.

Paul Lehr (1930 - 1998)

Paul Lehr was born in White Plains, New York in 1930. He dominated science fiction covers in the mid-1960s into the 1970s. Lehr studied illustration at the prestigious Pratt Institute. He contributed significantly to the distinctively imaginative style of SF art during that era, which for some represents the peak of the form's long history. As American publishers came to prefer more realistic art in the 1980s, Lehr focused instead on covers for the sf magazines Analog, Omni, Tomorrow: Speculative Fiction, and Weird Tales as well as covers for foreign publishers. 

Seung-Eun Kim (1976)

Seung-Eun Kim was born in United States in 1976. He is an artist, director and animator and a three-time Emmy nominee. Seung Kim has been employed in the field of animation since 1996. Kim worked on Godzilla, Starship Troopers, The Jackie Chan Adventures, The Spider-Man, The Batman TV Series (2003-2005), The Boondocks and more.

Robb Mommaerts (1976)

Robb Mommaerts was born in United States in 1976. He is an illustrator, character designer, graphic designer and a newbie to the comics industry. Working for Cryptozoic Entertainment, he recently illustrated their newly released game, Food Fight. A story contributor to IMAGE Comic’s Popgun Volume 3, Robb was also the cover artist to APE Comics and Dreamworks Animation’s SHREK comic book series.