Angel Onofre is a Chicago-based artist, animator, and game developer with over 15 years of professional experience across games, illustration, and design. A graduate of Columbia College Chicago with a BA in Animation, his work blends dark horror-inspired themes with playful and colorful characters.
Inspired by video games, horror films, comics, cartoons, skate culture, and heavy metal, Angel’s artwork has been featured in galleries, conventions, and published art books for properties including Stranger Things, Firefly, and The Thing. Alongside his independent art career, he currently works as a Senior Animator at Wargaming on World of Tanks and has contributed to projects for companies and properties including Disney, Nickelodeon, Hasbro, ABCmouse, LeapFrog, Fisher-Price, WWE, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
In his free time, Angel independently develops games and regularly participates in art festivals and conventions throughout the United States.
He can be contacted at angelonofre89@gmail.com
EXHIBITIONS & PUBLICATIONS
Featured artist for Design on Draft exhibition at the Design Museum of Chicago | 2025–2026
Featured artist for Hope exhibition at the Design Museum of Chicago | 2025–2026
Featured artist for collaborative beer label release with Black Horizon Brewing | 2024
Featured artist in solo exhibition at Vertical Gallery | 2023
Independently developed and released two games on itch.io | 2023
Featured cover artist for FLYER Chicago October Issue | 2022
Featured artist in Firefly Artbook published by 20th Century Fox | 2021
Featured artist in Stranger Things Artbook published by Netflix | 2019
Featured artist in solo exhibition at Illiasca Gallery | 2019
Featured artist in The Thing Artbook published by Universal Studios | 2017