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ABOUT YUKO SHIMIZU | ||||||||
| YUKO is an illustrator, fine artist and educator at School of Visual Arts, New York. | |||||||||
| Drawing had been my hobby ever since I was a child. However, growing up in a traditional Japanese family, pursuing a path in art for college was just not an option. After receiving Bachelor's Degree in advertising and marketing from Waseda University – the most creative genre of the practical field – I landed on a position in PR for a big corporation in Tokyo. It was a decent job that never made me quite happy and I was in mid-life crisis at age of 22. It still took more than 10 years before I figured out what I really wanted to do and to save just enough so I could go back to school full time for 4 more years. That is how I came back to New York where I briefly spent my childhood, and enrolled in School of Visual Arts (SVA). |
I received Master's Degree from Illustration as Visual Essay Program in 2003 and have been illustrating freelance since. I also teach a class for sophomore students in the Illustration Department and occasionally advise some graduate students at SVA. I work in a studio in Midtown Manhattan, a space I share with two artist friends whom I consider as my New York family. Art is a never ending learning process which often times can be painful, but I love everything about it. Besides I have not gotten into mid-life crisis since. Whenever I have time, I travel abroad to fuel my creativity. Sorry, wrong person. This Yuko Shimizu did NOT create Hello Kitty. |
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