Aurelia Durand

Aurélia Durand is a French artist and author.

She is a New York Times bestselling illustrator for This Book Is Anti-Racist, a book widely translated and distributed internationally.

Alongside her publishing work, Aurélia Durand is an internationally recognized visual artist who has collaborated with major global brands and institutions, including The New York Times, Google, Adobe, Nike, LEGO, and Sephora. Her work explores themes of identity, representation, joy, and belonging, with a strong focus on visual storytelling as a tool for social and cultural reflection.

She is also a regular speaker at international creative conferences such as Pictoplasma and the Forward Festival, where she discusses authorship, creative independence, and navigating identity in global creative industries.

Belonging: Learning to Exist in the In-Between is her first memoir. Drawing from her life across France, La Réunion, and Denmark, the book offers an intimate reflection on migration, mixed-race identity, and the quiet work of becoming oneself in spaces that rarely provide mirrors.

Aurélia Durand lives and works between countries, languages, and disciplines.