American Illustration 45 Annual

 I am excited to let you know that two of my illustrations were selected to appear in the prestigious American Illustration 45 annual. From 6,387 entries, the jury selected just 432 images.

Many thanks to Mark Helfin and the American Illustration 45 jury.

One pictured above, is my poster illustration for the play Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen, created for JDP-Yugoslav Drama Theater in Belgrade, Serbia.

The other pictured below, is my poster illustration for the play Eldorado by Marius von Mayenburg, also created for JDP-Yugoslav Drama Theater.

The Cuts Open Now

I am pleased to let you know that today is the opening of “Mirko Ilić: The Cuts,” a show of my illustrations and comics at the Cultural Centre of the Old Royal Capital Cetinje in Montenegro.

The show is hosted by the Fluid Design Forum and curated by Ana Matić & Srđa Dragović. The exhibition will be open until May 8th.

“The exhibition The Cuts presents a carefully composed cross-section of the comic and illustration work of Mirko Ilić, bringing into direct dialogue works created within the context of Yugoslav, European, and American print media of the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s with his most recent comic series A.C. 2020, developed at a time when the COVID-19 pandemic became an inescapable frame of everyday life. This is not a retrospective in the conventional sense, but a considered cut — an attempt to trace, through temporal and aesthetic shifts, the continuity of an exceptionally consistent yet never fixed authorial line.”

 

 

Silence=Death at Poster House

Poster House’s new exhibition, “Love & Fury: New York’s Fight Against AIDS,” is now open until September 6th, 2026. The exhibition explores how graphic design shaped New York’s grassroots response to AIDS from 1979 to 2003. Public health campaigns, agitprop, benefit flyers, and club handbills offer more than messages—they map how communities built survival systems from below, often before the state would act.
 

The show features a poster that I donated to Poster House, titled “Silence=Death” by a collective of six gay New Yorkers.  I also donated copies of this poster to the NewYork MOMA and SFMOMA collections.