Lauren Simkin Berke

Black and white photo of white person with short graying hair, wearing round glasses, not smiling, looking at camera.

Illustrator

BFA Illustration
simkinberke.com

Education

BA, Cornell University; MFA, School of Visual Arts

 

Current and former clients include

Anne Schwartz Books; Virginia Quarterly Review; Five Dials; Paris Review; Rémy Martin; Simon & Schuster; The New York Times; The Advocate; O, the Oprah Magazine; Workman Publishing; American Express; Smithsonian; Baffler; UNESCO Courier; Family Circle; Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf Corporation

 

Exhibitions include

A.I.R. Gallery; Delaware Contemporary, Wilmington; SVA Galleries; Paul Robeson Galleries, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ

 

Publications include

Were I Not a Girl: The Inspiring and True Story of Dr. James Barry; Shameless Feminists: World War 3 Illustrated; The Writer's Chapbook: A Compendium of Fact, Opinion, Wit and Advice from the Paris Review Interviews; Sketchbooks, The Hidden Art of Designers, Illustrators, and Creatives; Posters For Change: Tear, Paste, Protest; Extraordinary Lives; Forgotten Women; Rethinking Normal: A Memoir in Transition

 

Awards and honors include

3x3; Best Children's Book of the Year Selection, Bank Street College; American Illustration; Print; Communication Arts; University & College Designers Association; Society of Illustrators