About alex
Alex Rudin is a New York–based illustrator and multimedia artist whose work lies at the intersection of art, politics, history, and the human condition. Through visual storytelling grounded in research and expressive portraiture, Rudin creates illustrated narratives that reimagine historical memory and social resistance.
She received her BFA in Illustration from Parsons School of Design and completed her MA at NYU Gallatin, where she concentrated in Illustrating History. Her practice bridges fine art, scholarship, and design, transforming historical and political subjects into compelling graphic narratives.
Rudin’s work has been exhibited widely in New York and across the East Coast, including solo and group shows in Philadelphia, Jersey City, Delaware, and the Hamptons. Her illustrations and writing have appeared in Art Daily, Art Business News, Authority Magazine, Yahoo!, and USA Today, among others. She has also illustrated several book covers and is currently developing an illustrated tarot deck in collaboration with the Morgan Library & Museum, inspired by ancient Mesopotamian art.
Throughout her career, Rudin has collaborated with advocacy and philanthropic organizations such as Women for Biden-Harris 2020, Planned Parenthood, WomenRising, Her Bold Move, and The Representation Project, creating work that amplifies social justice and civic engagement. Through these partnerships and the organization of philanthropic art events, she has helped raise over $200,000 for partner organizations through art sales and community-based initiatives.
Her current projects include two major illustrated books: The Paper Remembers Everything, a 250-page graphic biography of Bauhaus artist and Holocaust educator Friedl Dicker-Brandeis, and The Illustrated Anthology of U.S. Art Activism, a visual history of socially engaged art across American history.
Rudin’s practice continues to merge art and scholarship, using image-making as a form of historical interpretation and a means of empathetic, politically conscious storytelling.
For more of Alex Rudin’s work, please visit her instagram @_alexrudin