Michael Hoeweler
Michael Hoeweler is a New York metro area-based illustrator, specializing in vibrant lifestyle work made for editorial, publishing, advertising, and corporate clients.
Born and raised in Cincinnati, Ohio, Michael spent his childhood drawing dinosaurs, whales, and his favorite video game characters before formally studying painting and art history at the School for Creative and Performing Arts. He continued this pursuit in college, attaining an undergraduate degree in illustration at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore. After a decade spent establishing his studio practice as an illustrator in New York City, he moved across the Hudson River to Bloomfield, New Jersey, where he currently lives and works.
Michael Hoeweler (b. 1988) is a New York metro area-based lifestyle illustrator, born and raised in Cincinnati, Ohio. After a childhood of drawing dinosaurs, whales, and his favorite video game characters, he began formally studying visual art and art history in high school at the School for Creative and Performing Arts. He continued this pursuit in college, attaining a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in illustration at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore. Michael spent the following decade living in New York City, where he established his studio practice as an illustrator working for editorial, publishing, advertising, and corporate clients.
Michael’s work is known for its distinctive style, marrying the organic with the structured, balancing realistic rendering with design sensibility, intricate line work with resplendent color palettes, and traditional media with digital approaches. The hallmark themes of Michael’s work are compassionate depictions of the human experience, a deep reverence for the natural world, and a nod towards the surreal and dreamlike. His illustrations cover a broad array of subjects, from aspirational lifestyles and fashion to culture and entertainment, LGBTQ+ identity, plant and animal life, food and dining, and
elevated portraiture.
Today, Michael spends his time working from his home studio in Bloomfield, New Jersey, just outside of New York City. He lives alongside his partner Billy and their two cats, Clementine and Theodore. In addition to his work as an illustrator, Michael is an educator at the Fashion Institute of Technology, a cancer survivor and advocate, a community organizer for a local LGBTQ+ advocacy group, and a (neophyte) gardener.
Washington Post, Penguin Random House, Abrams Books, Artisan Books,Vanity Fair, TIME, Variety, GQ, Wall Street Journal, The New YorkTimes, Apple, Pentagram, Newsweek, New York Magazine, Barron’s, Le Monde, Smithsonian, Los Angeles Times, ESPN, Forbes, Women’s Wear Daily, Bloomberg, Eight by Eight, Bon Appétit, National Park Service, Colonial Williamsburg, Ploughshares Fund, Ohio State University, New York University, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Sarah Lawrence College plus many more