About
Lina Müller is an illustrator and designer based in Switzerland. Her work has a focus on commercial illustration with a high artistic claim. She studied at the Lucerne School of Art and Design, Zurich University of the Arts, and at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków. She is the recipient of numerous awards and residencies. Her clients include The New Yorker, The New York Times, Bloomberg Businessweek, DIE ZEIT, Reportagen Magazin and Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin a.o. She loves working in the editorial field and illustrating challenging topics as well as dreamy ones. Whether it's a magazine page, a record cover, a poster, a whole book, a print for a T-Shirt or a tiny pin, she likes to go in to details and still keep it simple and strong.
Contact
+41 (0)79 793 29 53
MAILING ADRESS
Höfligasse 7
6460 Altdorf
Switzerland
Studio
G11 / Hellgasse 25
6460 Altdorf
Switzerland
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Selected Clients
The New Yorker US
The New York Times US
DIE ZEIT D
Figma US
Reportagen Magazin CH
Republik CH
McsSweeney`s US
Bloomberg Businessweek US
Das Magazin CH
DIE POST CH
emergence Magazine US
The Baffler US
Greenpeace Magazin CH/D
Black Sea Dahu CH
HSLU Hochschule Luzern CH
Les Others F
Stadt Zürich CH
Kanton Solothurn CH
Raffinerie CH
Museum für Gestaltung Zürich CH
NZZ CH
Schauspielhaus Zürich CH
on running CH
Opernhaus Zürich CH
Pro Helvetia CH
Salzhaus Winterthur CH
Strapazin CH
Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin D
SWISS International Air Lines CH
Texas Monthly US
Unseen Worlds US
WWF CH
The Wall Street Journal US
Locarno Film Festival CH
University of Zurich CH
Hochparterre CH
Cinema Riffraff Zurich CH
Psychologie Heute D
Awards, Grants
2026
Nomination Swiss Design Awards with Sun Pal
2025
Winner Most Beautiful Swiss Books 2024 – The Anemone, the Clownfish and Dr. Song
By Song He and Nico Krebs
Skinnerboox (I)
2025
Winner 100 Beste Plakate Deutschland, Österreich, Schweiz, with Luca Schenardi and Megi Zumstein
2024
Atelier X Japan 2025
AKS Albert Koechlin Stiftung
2022
Zentralschweizer Atelier Berlin 2024
2020 / 2021
Nomination Swiss Design Awards
2020
Werkbeitrag pro helvetia
2017
Nomination Swiss Design Awards
2015
2 x Winner 100 Beste Plakate Deutschland, Österreich, Schweiz
2014
Exhibition Grant, Haus für Kunst Altdorf
2013
Art Award / Förderpreis Bildende Kunst, Kanton Solothurn
2012
Winner 100 Beste Plakate Deutschland, Österreich, Schweiz, with Raffinerie AG, Zurich
2011
Project Grant Kunst- und Kulturstiftung Heinrich Danioth
with Luca Schenardi
Residencies
2025
Atelier X AKS Stiftung (CH)
Tokyo – Hachinohe – Semboku –Toyama – Osaka –Kyoto–Tokyo, Japan (JP)
2024
Zentralschweizer Atelier Berlin (D)
2024
One-month stay
Brooklyn, New York (US)
2023
One-month stay
Echo Park, Los Angeles (US)
2022
2 x One-month stay
Brooklyn, New York (US)
2018
Artist Residency Rud-Air
Laxarby (S)
2017
Artist Residency New York City (US)
Central Switzerland Studio
2016
Artist Residency Rud-Air
Laxarby (S)
2014
Camping Bus Travel Grant
Stiftung Otto Pfeifer (F)(ES)
2008
Artist Residency LKV
Trondheim (N)
Publications
2025
Plant-Based Monster Trucks
Nieves Books (CH)
2025
Julia Watson, Lo—TEK Water
A Field Guide for TEKnology
Taschen Verlag (US / D)
2024
The Anemone, the Clownfish and Dr. Song
Skinnerboox (IT)
2021
VERY FAR OUT
041 Magazin (CH)
2019
Passing Through – Swiss Artists in New York
Vexer Verlag (CH)
2019
Solvik, Nieves Books (CH)
2014
berri Jazz, Edition Plonkers Only (CH)
Latest Exhibitions
2026
Moonlit Daydream
Swiss General Consulate, New York (US)
2025
Berlin Studio Show
Haus für Kunst Uri, Altdorf (CH)
Talks
2026
Talk at the Society of Illustrators
New York (US)
2026
Talk at HSLU Illustration Fiction, Lucerne (CH)
2025
Teaching Bild und Idee at HSLU Illustration Fiction (with Yves Nussbaum) (CH)
2024
Talk at HSLU Illustration Fiction, Lucerne (CH)
2017
Workshop at Institut Supérieur des Beaux-Arts de Besançon (F)
2017
Talk at Propädeutikum ZHdK Zürcher Hochschule der Künste (CH)
2014
Talk at Pratt Institute, New York (US)