Ryn Heller
comics artist + illustrator
School of visual arts: BFA Comics Class of 2025
Awarded the Rhodes Family Award For Outstanding Students in Comics (2025)
Exhibited at the BFA Comics and BFA Illustration Senior Show (SVA Chelsea Gallery - 2025) and the BFA Comics + BFA Illustration 2025 Exhibition (SVA’s Andrew Chang Gallery in Seoul - 2025)
Sold comics with Common Area Maintenance’s Mobile Bookstore at Short Run Comix Festival (2025)
Published in SVA’s INK Magazine (2025)
Volunteered with the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund at San Diego Comic-Con and New York Comic Con (2025)
Tabled at SVA’s comic marketplace Fresh Meat (2025)
Tabled at SVA’s Accepted Students Day (2025)
Awarded Harvey Kurtzman Memorial Scholarship (2024)
Nominated for Will Eisner Scholarship in Comics (2024)
Nominated for Jack Potter Memorial Award in Drawing (2022)
Received consecutive High Term Honors from 2022-2024, as well as Term Honors for 2021 and 2025
Volunteering with CBLDF at SDCC
Volunteering with CBLDF at NYCC
Class of 2025 Graduation
The Road Eater being sold at Forbidden Planet
The Road Eater at SVA's Chelsea Gallery
The Road Eater at SVA's Chelsea Gallery
Tabling at SVA's Industry Day
Tabling at Accepted Students Day
Meeting future SVA students at Accepted Students Day
Tabling at Fresh Meat
