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. My mission is to make weird, mixed media art and animation for queer lost souls of the world. I connect with others through visceral work that makes you feel the terror of being perceived, known, - and in the worst cases- understood.

Tabling events
- 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-----------------------------------publications
- 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 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
- Unity at Hokin gallery 2015
- (In)Visible: Visualizing Queer Health at the Impact Institute 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-----------------------------------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.

From January to may 2025, I had the wonderful opportunity to be an artist in residence at the Impact institute of chicago. During this time i partnered with researcher Dennis li to create work that translated his team's research on better implementing effective practices in HIV/AIDS treatment.
The first piece 'building better care' explores how with several effective tools to end the spread of HIV, the ACCELERATE program aims to get those treatments, prevention programs, and practices to those in need faster and more efficiently. Not needing to reinvent the wheel allows ACCELERATE to continue building on top of already existing successful programs and dismantle barriers overcomplicating care. This painting mirrors this process by literally carving away unnecessary pieces and further constructing atop pre-existing forms.The second piece 'make care more consistent' focuses on projects CLEARS-HIV and CEASE-HIV’s goals to increase patient retention and overcome systemic barriers preventing people with complex needs from accessing long-term healthcare support, this comic utilizes a layered artmaking process to demonstrate the multifaceted social factors inhibiting people from reaching an undetectable HIV status. Rather than trying to circumnavigate a patient’s complex needs, CLEARS-HIV and CEASE-HIV address those issues directly through methods such as providing low-barrier walk-in clinic hours, financial counseling, personal case managers, transportation options, food, and financial incentives. When given this support the layered issues that once prevented a patient from receiving consistent access to healthcare can come into alignment and form a clear picture.