Yuko Shimazu Yuko Shimazu Yuko Shimizu

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

New York City Subway Poster!

If you are a New Yorker, or recently visited New York City and took public transportation, you may have seen this poster around subway and train stations. I am excited to see my work posted around, friends taking photos and sending them to me, and sometimes see posters becoming the victim of graffiti. (ha ha, very NYC).
If you are interested in making this a holiday gift this season, you can purchase the poster from MTA Arts for Transit store. and the proceeds go to make your train stations nicer. So, that is a good way to get a creative gift and also contribute to NYC!

YUKO SHIMIZU BOOK Update

Here’s a photo You Byun took in Switzerland during her recent trip to Europe. It looks like the book is already published in Europe. They should be coming to the rest of the world, including US and Asia, this month. You can read more about it , and make purchase, all on the publisher Gestalten’s site.

ILLUSTRATION SECTION Updated + new website in works

Finally, finally finally, NEW ILLUSTRATION SECTION got updated. Hurray. Ten new illustrations. But because I had been so busy for the past one year or so, and therefore this section has been neglected for just as long, I have many many more images to post stored on my hard drive. Thanks to very kind help by Shigeko Okada, this section will get updated again soon with lots more images.On the other hand, I am starting to work on getting my website completely renewed by the awesome guys at SIDEWAYS. We are hoping the new site would be up by mid-Autumn. Stay tuned.

Back To Work

Just got back from another great experience teaching a workshop in Venice, Italy. I am hoping to blog about it soon.

As for now… Yuko is back in business. Hope your summer has also been going well.

STUDIO IS CURRENTLY CLOSED

Yuko’s studio is currently closed due to illustration workshop in Venice, Italy which will be starting this weekend. I will be back to the studio on August 15. Hope you will have a good summer as well.

Group Shows, Group Shows!

So far, two (possibly three) more group shows are scheduled in the month of September.

I will post more details when I am back from Italy.

San Diego ComiCon Special Charity Event

On Friday, July 22, one night only charity exhibition/auction will take place during San Diego Comic-Con.Artists have created one of a kind original piece inspired by Ak ira Kurosawa movies. I am donating a new work to this event. Bid on them, own a new piece of art and support a good cause.  I have posted this event on my blog.
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