2026 GNSI Juried Members

Exhibition

2026 ANNUAL MEMBERS' EXHIBITION

Excellence in Science Visualization

Juried by: Jane Kim, Dr. Sheryl Smith, and Paul Callomon

Location: Virtual

Date: July 16, 2026

Every year, GNSI members are given the opportunity to submit works to a juried exhibit representing the best work being created by practicing visual science communicators today.

The jurors for this year’s exhibition selected the following works from among over 200 entries from 120 artists. Thank you to all the members who entered the exhibition and thanks so much to the jurors who took time for thoughtful consideration of members’ work. Learn more about the exhibition jurors below.

Meet Our 2026 Jurors

Traditional Science Illustration & Broader Science Visualization Jurors

Jane Kim is a visual artist, science illustrator, and the founder of Ink Dwell. Her art career started when she was a little girl obsessively painting flowers and bears on the walls of her bedroom. She received more formal training with a BFA in Printmaking from RISD and then attended California State University Monterey Bay, where she received a master’s certificate in science illustration. She has created large-scale public art across the country, including the Wall of Birds at The Cornell Lab of Ornithology, and produced works for the National Aquarium, the de Young Museum, Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, and more. She is the creator of the Migrating Mural campaign, a series of public installations that highlight wildlife along migration corridors it shares with people. She still enjoys painting flowers and bears, though nowadays she doesn’t get in trouble for painting on the walls. 

Dr. Sheryl Smith

Dr. Sheryl Smith is a Professor of Biology and Assistant Dean in the College of Arts and Sciences at Arcadia University. She holds an M.A. in Biochemistry from the University of Scranton and a Ph.D. in Developmental Biology and Teratology from Thomas Jefferson University. She completed postdoctoral training at The Wistar Institute in Philadelphia before joining the faculty at Arcadia in 2007. Her research explores how environmental endocrine disrupting chemicals, including Bisphenol-A (BPA) and the "forever chemical" PFOA, affect growth and metabolism, using Drosophila melanogaster as a model system. This work includes the use of fluorescence microscopy to visualize and produce images of biological processes at the cellular level. Dr. Smith is author or co-author of twenty-nine peer-reviewed publications and co-organizes two Biodesign global field study courses, interdisciplinary programs bridging biology and art, which take students to the Atacama Desert of Chile and to Cuzco, Peru.

Paul Callomon

Paul Callomon is a graduate of the Faculty of Art and Design at Wolverhampton University in the UK. He has worked in graphic design, typography, photography and publication since the 1980s, publishing roughly 10,000 images in print with an emphasis on mollusks. He is the author of “A basic guide to specimen photography in museum collections”, “Standard views for imaging mollusk shells” (American Malacological Society) and the forthcoming “Seashells: a compendium of five thousand of the world’s species” (Princeton University Press).

Mr. Callomon is currently Collection Manager in Malacology and General Invertebrates at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University in Philadelphia, where he heads the Invertebrate Zoology Imaging Center.