Liz Ryan is architectural illustrator and creative projects producer based in Brooklyn, New York.
From 2019-2024, Liz was a member of MSCHF, an art collective engaged in social critique. She was the group’s first full-time production hire and departed with a dance card of wide-ranging experience. Of the 64 projects she produced at MSCHF, she’s most proud of Tax Heaven 3000, a dating simulator that does your taxes, Nothing Is Sacred, the collective’s first international solo show at the Daelim Museum in Seoul, and Made By MSCHF, a comprehensive monograph anticipated to be released by Phaidon in Spring 2025.
Since leaving MSCHF Liz has continued to make weird things with nice people and devote more of her time to illustration and running.
Her approach to illustration is rooted in on-site reportage drawing and aided by a long time love of research and internet sleuthing. She primarily creates non-figurative work, but looks to people and their stories to shape and humanize her illustrations. Liz is currently working on a graphic novel about Prague in the 1940s, and outfitting a sunny studio in Dumbo with a handful of other illustrators.
Clients
Neal.fun (Production)
MSCHF (Production)
Warby Parker (Illustration)
Creative Mornings (Illustration)
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (Mural painting)
B&H Photo (Illustration)
Local Roots (Illustration)
Berkeley Student Cooperative (Illustration, graphic design)
The Bold Italic (illustration)
Select Projects + Press
2025 / Neal.fun Stimulation Clicker | New York Time / The Atlantic / Hacker News / Polygon / The Verge
2024 / MSCHF The Free Movie | Mashable / High Snobiety
2023 / MSCHF Nothing is Sacred | Fast Company / Vogue Korea / artnet / Hypebeast Korea
2023 / MSCHF Tax Heaven 3000 | Forbes / NPR / TechCrunch / Business Insider
2022 / MSCHF ATM Leaderboard | Dezeen / ARTnews / CNN / USA Today / Oddity Central
2022 / MSCHF Spot’s Rampage | BBC / Vice / The Verge / Wired / Boston Globe
2021 / MSCHF Medical Bill Art | Artnet / CNN / Mashable / FAD Magazine
2020 / Personal Covid-19 Community Fundraiser | Eater / NY1