Artist & Author exploring belonging, identity, and visibility through color and storytelling.

Image by Aurélia Durand, 2026.

Aurélia Durand is a French artist and author based in Denmark. Living abroad for over a decade deeply shaped her reflections on belonging, identity, and visibility. Through bold colors and simplified forms, she creates vibrant portraits that center Black bodies with presence, softness, and strength. Her work moves between painting, publishing, and storytelling, exploring what it means to exist between cultures while searching for a place to belong.

Her work has been featured through collaborations with major international brands and institutions, while her books and visual storytelling continue to build an engaged international community around questions of identity and representation.

Selected Highlights

  • Illustrator of the #1 New York Times bestseller This Book Is Anti-Racist.

  • Author of Belonging, You Are an Artist, and Dance for Joy.

  • Collaborated with Google, YouTube, Nike, LEGO, Coca-Cola, Adobe, Sephora, Warner Bros., The New York Times, The New Yorker, Meta, Apple, Warner Music, and many more.

  • Speaker at international conferences and creative events, including Adobe MAX, Design Matters, Forward Festival, and pictoplasma.

  • Olympic Torchbearer for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games in Paris

  • Work featured in books, campaigns, public art projects, exhibitions, and educational initiatives worldwide for over a decade.