Ryan Sanchez is an artist, illustrator, and educator. He has been illustrating and making art professionally since 2000. He has been a college professor since 2010. He received his undergraduate degrees from the University of Southern California with a BA in Fine Arts, and from Art Center College of Design with a BFA in Illustration. He received his MFA in Illustration from the Savannah College of Art and Design.

 

He was raised as a latch key kid in the suburbs of Los Angeles, California. To keep himself entertained as a child, he drew on sidewalks, streets, walls, shoes, clothing, textbooks, and anything else he could get his hands on.

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Luckily, he did not grow out of his passion for the art. His illustrations have been widely used in the editorial, advertising, and publishing world and have been recognized by Communication Arts, 3 X 3 Magazine, American Illustration, and the Society of Illustrators. His paintings have been shown in galleries in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Seattle, Portland, London, Canada, and Switzerland.

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Currently, Ryan lives in somewhere in the US with his lovely wife, Heidi, and their beautiful daughter Paloma. He is a professor of illustration by day and superhero by night. A better part of his day is spent Photoshopping, painting, picking, poking, posturing, pointing, prognosticating, panicking, pinching, plotting, and more recently pandemicking.