Born in Miami and now based in New York, Derek Abella is an illustrator who pulls from his Cuban-American and queer experience to create dream-like representations of a variety of subjects ranging from technology, to politics, to relationships between people, their surroundings, their memories and each other.
derekabella@gmail.com
@derekabella
Site by: Serena Alice Chen
Google, The New Yorker, The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, Nike, Red Bull, Delta Airlines, Spotify, Netflix, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, Yahoo!, The Guardian, HuffPost, NBC News, Microsoft, BuzzFeed, Variety, Vanity Fair, Wieden+Kennedy, The Atlantic, Politico, Harvard, Lincoln Center, HP, Vice, Bloomberg Businessweek, It's Nice That, Pentagram, Buck, The Wall Street Journal, WSJ Magazine, Bon Appétit, Cosmopolitan, Insider, Wired, Pitchfork, Doubleday & Cartwright, Eater, ACLU Magazine, TED Talks, Soho House, Bang & Olufsen, Harry’s, Today Show, THINX, Medium, McSweeney's, AARP, Them, Dame Products, Dims, Talkspace, MedMen, Socialter, Byline, The Baffler, Zendesk, NEO.LIFE, Elephant Magazine, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Coda Story, Splice, Avenue Magazine, Hero Digital, Upstatement
Apple, Marketing Communications Artist Talk Series, Virtual Lecture—July, 2023
Pratt Institute, Guest Lecture—April, 2023
San Diego State University, Virtual Lecture—April, 2022
Rhode Island School of Design, Virtual Lecture—May, 2020