Natalya Balnova

Natalya Balnova is a New York based illustrator, designer and printmaker. Her practice blends traditional and contemporary methods—ink washes, digital illustration, and handmade printmaking—to create work with depth, texture, and character. Alongside commissioned illustration, she maintains an active independent practice, producing self-published silkscreen books, zines, posters, and apparel designs.

Natalya has been recognized by Art Directors Club, American Illustration, The Society of Illustrators, Print Design Annual, 3x3 Magazine, Creative Quarterly, Art Book Wanted.

Her clients include: Apple, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Time, The Wall Street Journal, Samsung, The Los Angeles Times, The Atlantic, Smithsonian, Victoria and Albert Museum, Dogfish Head, Village Voice, The Boston Globe, Blue Q, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Foreign Affairs, Scientific American, Hachette Book Group, Harper Collins, Harvard Business School, Penguin Random House UK, Penguin Random House USA, A Strange Object, British Council, Chicago Review Press, Counterpoint Press, De la Martinière Jeunesse, Groundwood Books, Grupo Expansión, La Guarimba International Film Festival, Little Bee Books, Nuinui  Publishing, Princeton University Press, Scholastic, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Quirk Books and Deep Vellum Publishing