Bio: Yuko Shimizu, an illustrator, educator, and not-so-prolific-at-this-moment fine artist has been drawing ever since she could hold a crayon, but took a long time to actually become a professional artist. She studied marketing and advertising, and had worked in the field of PR in Tokyo, Japan for a very long time before she decided to go back to School of Visual Arts (New York, USA) to study at MFA Illustration As Visual Essay program. Now her long time hobby has became her job, she considers PR as her new hobby, and to teach illustration majors at SVA as a passion. Yuko creates her drawings at SHY Studio in Midtown Manhattan which she shares with two other artist friends, and secretly dreaming of getting a studio-parrot one day (or a dog, or a polar bear).

Yuko Shimizu,插画师、教育家、目前来说并不是一个多产的艺术家。从她能用手拿蜡笔开始，她就在画画，直到经历了很长一段时间才成为专业的艺术家。学习市场和广告后，在日本东京的公共关系行业工作了一段时间后，决定前往美国纽约的School  of Visual Arts攻读Illustration As Visual Essay项目的MFA学位。现在她从小到大的兴趣爱好变成了她的工作，并把公共关系视为她的新兴趣，并将热情融化在SVA的插画课程教授过程中。Yuko和另外两个艺术家朋友公用在曼哈顿中城的SHY Studio，进行插画创作，并悄悄梦想着能有一只studio鹦鹉，或一直狗、一头北极熊。