David M. Brinley is an award-winning artist and illustrator whose clients include Time magazine, Rolling Stone, Newsweek, Sports Illustrated, GQ, the Washington Post, and the Los Angeles and New York Times magazines. His characteristic personal, editorial, and portrait art is seen regularly in juried annuals including American Illustration, Communication Arts, The Society of Illustrators NYC, SILA Los Angeles, and 3 x 3 International Illustration. An artist member of the Society of Illustrators NYC, David was selected by Creative Quarterly as one of the top 100 creatives/100 Best Annual in 2015. His newest work was selected for 2023’s Lürzer’s 200 Best, a curated book of 200 of the best digital artists worldwide.
A graduate with distinction from ArtCenter College of Design in Los Angeles, CA as well as Hartford Art School’s prestigious MFA in Illustration program, David is currently a Professor of Art and Design at the University of Delaware. He received a prestigious Delaware Division of the Arts Individual Artists Fellowship award in the Visual Arts for Painting (Established category) in 2012. David has exhibited personal works nationally from New York to Los Angeles at the Society of Illustrators NYC, Gallery Nucleus, Creative Arts Center in Burbank, La Luz De Jesus Annual Juried Group Show, Mendenhall Sobieski Gallery, as well as Robert Berman Gallery in Los Angeles.
David’s distinctive visual collaborations with Tobias Forge of the Grammy award winning Swedish rock band GHOST can be seen on national and international world tour posters, albums, singles, and merchandising worldwide.
Recent art, illustrations, and personal works have been jury selected and published in Creative Quarterly’s 100 best Annual, American Illustration 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, and 43, Communication Arts Illustration Annual 54, Communication Art Photography Annual 56, SILA 51, 3 x 3 International Illustration 10, 11, 12, 16, 20, Creative Quarterly 40, Phillustration 9 (Best in Show), 10, and 13, as well as the Society of Illustrators Annual 57, and GRAPHIS (GOLD award 2021 - Protest Posters 2).
David is represented by Gerald & Cullen Rapp|Art Artist Representatives NYC.
