Nicholas Kilner-Pontone

2024 Graduate

Nicholas K. Pontone graduated with honors from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn NY in 2020 with a BFA in Illustration, right in time for the COVID-19 pandemic to send the world reeling. He moonlit as an illustrator while living from home and working first as a landscaper/garden nursery worker, and then as an associate at a non-profit. It was during this time he discovered medical illustration from an encouraging manager. After saving enough money he enrolled at UMBC, taking three semesters of premedical classes to build upon a lifelong interest in the sciences. In 2022 he began a 2 year M.A. in Medical and Biological Illustration from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.

Education

Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
Department of Art as Applied to Medicine
Master of Arts in Medical and Biological Illustration, May 2024.

Pratt Institute,
Communications Design, Brooklyn, NY
Bachelor of Fine Art: Communications Design: Illustration, 2020

Experience & Activities

Medical Animator
2023 Center for Bioengineering Innovation & Design, Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD

Biological Illustrator
2023 National Aquarium, Baltimore, MD

Medical Illustrator
2022 Center for Functional Anatomy and Evolution, Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD

Exhibitions

Association of Medical Illustrators, Annual Salon Exhibition, Las Vegas, Nevada 2023.

Associations

Association of Medical Illustrators (AMI), Student Member, 2021 – present

Recognition

Association of Medical Illustrators
2022 Award of Merit

Vesalius Trust

2024 Inez Demonet Scholar
2024 Research Grant Award

Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
2023-24 Joseph M. Dieter Jr. Scholarship for Creative Design Excellence
2023-24 W.B. Saunders Fellowship Fund
2023-24 William P. Didusch Scholarship
2023-24 Ranice W.Crosby Scholarship Fund
2023-24 School of Medicine Dean’s Slot Tuition Assistance

Pratt Institute
2020 Society of Illustrators Student Award
2020 Pratt Circle Award
2020 Pratt Institute Excellence in Academic Achievement Award
2017 Pratt Foundations Award Scholarship for Overall Excellence
2016 National Merit Award from YoungArts
2016 Scholastics Art and Writing Award:
National Gold Medal: Selected drawing and illustration
National Silver Medal:Selected drawing and illustration
Two Silver Key Art Portfolio Awards