About
Avery Slezak (she/they) is an illustrator, book artist, paper engineer, and graphic designer based in Brooklyn, NY. She makes bold and graphic illustrations, zines, artist books, and pop-up books that often focus on absurdism, spirituality, politics, and climate change among other things.
She is also a co-founder and manager of super professional press, an independent Risograph printing collective that publishes work by other artists in addition to their own work. She has also tabled at various art book fairs and zine fairs with the press and independently.
Avery went to Pratt Institute and received her BFA in Communications Design with an emphasis in Illustration and a minor in Book Arts.
Contact
Email: slezakavery@gmail.com
Instagram: @_artvery_
Awards
3x3 Magazine Annual 22: Merit Winner. 2025.
Creative Quarterly CQ78: Illustration Runner-up x 4. 2024.
Society of Publication Designers: Noteworthy. 2024.
Handsome Frank: Industry Project 3rd Place. 2023.
Collections
Pace University Zine Library
Baylor University Book Arts Collection
UNC Greensboro Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collection
Pratt Institute Library Zine Collection
Minnesota Center for Book Arts
Fairs
Other Islands Book Fair 2025
Brooklyn Indie Comics Expo 2025
Riso Expo Philly 2025
Jersey Art Book Fair 2025
Tokyo Art Book Fair 2024
Newark Zine Fair 2024
Staple and Stitch Art Book Fair 2024
East Village Zine Fair 2024