Howdy! I’m Logan Basil (he/him) and I’m a Northwest Indiana based mixed media illustrator and animator. My work combines unconventional mediums with digital media in order to explore themes of queerness, ocd, and not belonging. Right now I’m working on two animated student short films and am currently collaborating with the Institute of Sexual and Gender Minority Health and Wellbeing on an artist residency focusing on equitable access to HIV care. My mission is to make weird, mixed media art and animation for queer lost souls of the world. To connect with others through visceral work that makes you feel the terror of being perceived, known, - and in the worst cases- understood.

Tabling events
- c3expo 2025
- inkfest 2025
- lake county library comicfest 2024
-NWI art show 2024
-Lake county creative arts summit 2024
-inkfest 2024------------------------------------publications
- 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 magaine. "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------------------------------------exhibitions
-reflections at Hokin gallery 2024
-tell me something beautiful workshop exhibit at the Italian Cultural Institute of Chicago 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------------------------------------awards
-Devin Chase Vancil Art and Music Scholarship 2022
-South Shore Juror’s award 2021
-LCHS 2d art student of the year 2021

“When i am with him, smoking or talking quietly ahead, or whatever it may be, I see, beyond my own happiness and intimacy, occasional glimpses of the happiness of 1000s of others whose name I shall never hear, and know that there is a great unrecorded history.”
- E. M. Forster. Selected Letters of E. M. Forster Volume 1: 1879-1920, page 269My sustained investigation from AP 2D art explores utilizing unconventional materials to symbolically connect the art-making process to the subject of the work through mixed media portraits of historical figures. Details of the lives of queer icons, such as Oscar Wilde’s kiss tomb and Marsha P. Johnson’s struggle with poverty, deeply informs my artistic practice as I incorporate details of their lives into my creative process.My mixed-media pieces begin with extensive research on the subject. Documentaries, biographies, interviews, and work created by the subject are the driving forces of my work. Many of these pieces are unusual sizes to reference important dates or information relevant to the subject. For example Sappho’s portrait is 14.7 x 14.7 inches to reference Fragment 147, in which she yearns to be remembered.As a young queer person who didn't have queer elders in my life, I look towards our history for reassurance and community. The lives and tribulations of historical figures assure me that i am not alone my experiences. i aim to inform viewers of the deeply rich and often forgotten history of the queer community. we have existed in every pocket of history from ancient greece to the space race and beyond. Though the vocabulary we use to define gender and sexuality continues to evolve, looking back at our history contextualizes the progress we have made and the progress that still must be done. These stories have provided me with great reassurance and a sense of community, which I share through my art in order to provide the same sense of connection to other queer individuals.Now more than ever it is important not only to remember and share our history but to celebrate it. as anti-queer and anti-trans legislation has drastically increased since the creation of this series, looking back at our victories and seeing how hard we have worked for what we have inspires me to continue the fight. Do not let the struggles of queer people past or present disillusion you. let this be your call to action. record our history.

    COMING SOON!!I am one of four artists chosen for the Institute for Sexual and Gender Minority Health and Wellbeing ARTGASM residency at Northwestern University. ARTGASM is an innovative initiative born from the Institute’s strategic planning endeavors to bridge the gap between research outcomes and community dissemination. This year four Chicago-based artists have been chosen to collaborate with the Institute's researchers to develop work communicating their research about queer health.