Alexandra Citrin is an award-winning illustrator and art director based in NYC. You can call her Alex. Everyone does. 

Alex is currently an art and photo editor at The Wall Street Journal as well as an illustrator.

Before that, she was the art director of Quartz, prior to which she served as an associate art director at The New York Times. She started art directing as a deputy art director at Time Out New York before moving on to work in-house as a freelance art director for Women’s Wear Daily, Refinery29, and Penguin Random House.  

As an illustrator, clients include The New York Times, Meta, Vice Media, New York Magazine, Playboy, Food52, Vox Media, Califia Farms, Zappos, Airbnb, Entertainment Weekly, The Susan G. Komen Foundation, The Stranger, Serious Eats, Mic, Lenny Letter, Momofuku, Pitchfork, Nylon, The Howard Hughes Corporation, Baltimore Museum of Art, Electric Literature, Urban Outfitters, Politico, Northside Media, The New School, among others.

Alex has been a visiting professor in the Communication Design department at Pratt Institute since 2016, teaching illustration, animation, and design-based research.

(She also lectures at other universities sometimes, feel free to email her about that) 

Education:
2014: Maryland Institute College of Art, MFA Illustration
2009: Skidmore College, BS Fine Arts

Interviews:
New York Magazine
Partfaliaz
Electric Literature
Lenny Letter
Daily Metal
Book By It's Cover
Brown Paper Bag
Ignant
Doodlers Anonymous
The Le Sigh

Awards & Recognitions:

2022: Society for News Design, Art Direction portfolio, Quartz
2019: American Illustration (AI-AP 38), Illustration (Editorial)
2018: Society of Illustrators Annual (SOI61), Editorial (Series)
2018: American Illustration (AI-AP 37), Illustration (Editorial)
2017: International Motion Art Awards (IMAA6)
2017: Society of Illustrators Annual (SOI60), Editorial  
2017: Society of Illustrators Annual (SOI60), Advertising
2016: 3x3, Art Direction (illustration), Women's Wear Daily
2016: American Illustration (AI-AP 35), Art Direction (illustration), Time Out Kids  
2015: Society of Publication Designers (SPD 50), Merit Award for Until Now  
2015: Society of Illustrators Annual (SOI58), Art Director for work in Until Now
2012: Graduate Scholarship, Maryland Institute College of Art

Alex lives in NYC with her beloved husband and daughter. She is ambivalent about referring to herself in third person for the sake of this bio.

Please direct all electronic mail to: alex@alexcitrin.com
Chill with me on Instagram: @alexcitrin