Sarula Bao is an illustrator, zine maker, and community organizer. She is the director of a small press and initiative, Endless Editions, and the Brooklyn Art Book Fair (BKABF). She’s also the lead technician and a faculty member at the SVA RisoLAB.
Bao's primary goals and practice are community building by removing barriers of entry for artists, fostering connections and providing space, platforms, resources and labor. Bao's own narrative work and zine practice are an extension of these values and explore the personal and interpersonal effects of systems of oppression. She also loves working with fun fashion, queer subject matter, and playing around with elements of Chinese art, aesthetics and storytelling.
She has been featured in The New Yorker Cover Story, Twice, the Makers Series by the W.O.W Project, “How to Book“ by Small Editions, Girlsclub Asia, World Journal, Brooklyn Paper, NYC Plugged, amNY, Eater SF, It’s Nice That, AirBNB Design, Our Place, Colossal, Time Magazine, Childish Books, SineTheta Magazine, Beyond Chinatown, Asian American Writers’ Workshop, Jadaliyya and worked with clients such as Google, Apple, Facebook, New York Magazine, The New Yorker, The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Vice, Refinery 29, Bon Appétit, Youtube, Fellow Industries Inc., Anthropology News, Buzzfeed News, AirBNB, Slate Magazine, Document Journal, Chronicle Books, Guernica Magazine, Flocabulary, Narratively, Lenny Letter, Splice, Our Place, Think!Chinatown, Wing on Wo and Co., Chinese Culture Center of San Francisco, City Point Brooklyn, Alive Ventures, Abrons Art Center, and Good Good Eatz. Full CV.
Contact at sarulatbao@gmail.com