Yuko Shimizu is a multi-award-winning Japanese illustrator based in New York City. With almost 20 years of experience illustrating, she is also an instructor at The School of Visual Arts. 

Her work covers multiple disciplines; she has been featured on the pages of The New York Times to WIRED, covers for DC Comic, Penguin, and Scholastic, and advertising for brands like Apple, Microsoft, Intel, and Universal Pictures.