Yuko Shimazu Yuko Shimazu Yuko Shimizu

Award winning Japanese illustrator based in New York City and instructor at School of Visual Arts.

DEAR STUDENTS AND ASPIRING ILLUSTRATORS

This is a message for art students and aspiring illustrators…

I have been receiving so many e-mails everyday from people asking questions. I am very flattered. At the same time, already swamped juggling my own work and looking after 20 BFA students and 1 MFA student of my own, it is extremely difficult to answer back to each one of you.. If you don’t hear back from me, please please don’t take it personally!!

THE ASSOCIATION OF ILLUSTRATORS STUDENT COMPETITION

I just finished judging the student category at The Association of Illustrators of UK. All the winners including Gold, Silver and Bronze Awards are finalized. Winners will be announced soon. I was amazed by the high quality of illustrations to choose from, and it was so much fun. Congratulations to everyone who got in, and thank you Sabine of AOI for giving me this opportunity.

October 8, 2007

Sorry for not updating my site in a while. It is always a bit hectic in fall when new school year starts and it takes a while for me to get back into juggling illustration and teaching. I will update the site very soon. There are lots of illustrations that need to be added to this site!

SUPER PHAT has closed. Thank you everyone who was involved in realizing this show, especially Elaine Chow of SVA Alumni Society. And thank YOU for coming!

September 19, 2007

Thank you everyone for coming to SUPER PHAT opening reception last night. I saw the show for the first time myself, and it turned out to be a big fun of diverse interesting work. If you haven’t seen it yet, hope you can go stop by! It worth walking all the way west to 11th Avenue.

Big thank you goes to: Elaine Chow of SVA Alumni Society, curators Marshall Arisman and Retsu Takahashi.

SUPER PHAT AND FINE ART SECTION OVERHAUL

It is not that I hadn’t worked on fine art drawings in three years, but it is true that I had not updated that section in three years. Since I took a lot of time off this summer to work on two new large scale drawing for SUPER PHAT, I finally “started” overhauling. I have lots more drawings to upload, so please stay tuned. You can take a look at new page so far here.Please wait till the day show opens to see the new drawings. For now, look at photos here.

I had also revised the whole Fine Art Section for easy browsing.

FEATURE ARTICLE IN dpi MAGAZINE

Congratulations to Taiwanese Magazine dpifor their issue #100. There is an eight page Yuko interview article both in English and in Chinese. Special thank you goes to editor Sasha Weng.Also, 3×3 article got reprinted in CQ Journal Summer issue. I actually haven’t seen the issue yet.

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