Yuko Shimizu

Illustrator

Yuko Shimizu is a multi-award-winning Japanese illustrator based in New York City. Yuko is an instructor at New York’s School of Visual Arts and has almost 20 years of experience illustrating.

Her work includes multiple disciplines and can be seen on Gap t-shirts and Pepsi cans, as well as on numerous book covers and in many magazines.

Yuko is a two-time Hugo Award nominee (2019, 2020), has won more than 15 medals from the Society of Illustrators since 2004. She was recently awarded the Caldecott Honor (2021), one of the highest awards for picture books, for her work on the children’s book The Cat Man of Aleppo (Penguin, 2020).

 
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You’ll find Yuko’s website at yukoart.com

Books