About Me

Logan Basil is a Northwest Indiana based mixed media illustrator, color designer, animator, and zinester. Logan’s work combines unconventional mediums with digital media in order to explore themes of queerness, ocd, and isolation. His mission is to make weird, mixed media art and animation for queer lost souls of the world. Basil connects with others through visceral work that makes you feel the terror of being perceived, known, - and in the worst cases- understood.

Logan collects pop tabs, second hand books, and missed opportunities. When not making a mess in his basement studio, he can be found overanalyzing niche horror media, pestering his friends, and jamming out to riot grrrl music.

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  • Paula Pfeffer and Cheryl Johnson-Odim Political Cartoon Contest 2025

  • Most Professional Illo award Nominee 2025

  • Devin Chase Vancil Art and Music Scholarship 2022

  • South Shore Juror’s Award 2021

  • LCHS 2d Art Student of the year 2021

Awards

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  • Unity at Hokin gallery 2025

  • (In)Visible: Visualizing Queer Health at the Impact Institute 2025

  • Elmhurst Pride Collective Tree of Life Mural 2025

  • Reflections at Hokin gallery 2024

  • Tell Me Something Beautiful workshop exhibit at the Italian Cultural Institute of Chicago 2024

  • One Hot Inch Buttons at Necessary & Sufficient Coffee - Printers Row 2024

  • Inflection Point: Gender Futures, Political Possibilities at Koehnline Museum of Art 2024

  • Beyond the Binary at Columbia College Chicago 2023

  • Katherrin Billordo’s Visionary Art Show at The White Room Chicago 2023

  • 47th Annual Tri-County Junior/Senior High School Exhibition 2021

Exhibitions

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Logan Basil Artist Residency reception
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Logan Basil Elmhurst Mural
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Logan Basil Brain Dump Publication
Logan Basil FlowerMouth Press Magazine Cover
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Publications

  • Fruit Batz Issue #1 October 2025

  • Flowermouth press "edition 3: Summertime Nostalgia" 2025

    • My art was on the cover

  • Panocha Zine "The period issue" 2025

  • Abyss Literary Magazine "Technicolour" 2025

  • the limelight chicago. "the squeeze vol. 4 the love issue" 2025

  • Flowermouth press "edition 2: gothic, rotting, changing of the seasons" 2025

    • My art was on the cover

  • Sam Kariotis. “There’s Still Time: An I Saw The TV Glow Fanzine” 2025

  • Transfix magazine. "Issue no. 4" winter 2024

  • Queer Gaze Magazine “issue 2: - Gender Trouble” 2024

  • This Is Not a Video. “Pride” June 2024

  • Braindump. “Issue no 2, Neurodiversity” 2024

  • This Is Not a Video. “Cult Classic” April 2024

  • Paramoreblr. “This Is Why : A Year In The Life” 2024.

  • JaneyGuts. “This Is Not a Test: A Bikini Kill Zine” 2023.

  • Convergence Magazine Fall Issue “Tri-County Junior/Senior High School Exhibition.” 2021

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Tabling Events

  • Bloomington Alternative Media Fest 2025

  • Lake County Library Comicfest 2025

  • Lake County Creative Arts Summit 2025

  • C3expo 2025

  • Inkfest 2025

  • Lake County Library Comicfest 2024

  • NWI Art Show 2024

  • Lake County Creative Arts Summit 2024

  • Inkfest 2024