Priyanka Kumar

Part-Time Faculty / Illustration

Priyanka is an illustrator and printmaker from Kolkata, India. Her work spans comics, zines, murals, risograph and silkscreen printing, and artist books. She has an MFA in Illustration Practice from MICA, where she now teaches visual narrative and risograph printmaking, and art directs for two independent publishing projects: Anchovy Press, and South Asian Avant-Garde (SAAG). Priyanka’s graphic stories and comics have featured in multiple anthologies, including the Ignatz-nominated Bystander: Stories, Observations and Witnessings from South Asia, First Hand: Graphic Non-Fiction From India and Drawing the Line. She is also an illustration researcher with a keen interest in south Asian illustration and illustration pedagogy, and has presented her work at the Blind Spots Illustration Research Symposium in 2023, and Prisms: The Education Symposium at ICON: The Illustration Conference 2024.

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