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YUKO SHIMIZU is an illustrator and a fine artist. She is also an illustration instructor at School of Visual Arts, New York.
Drawing had been Yuko’s hobby ever since she was a child. However, growing up in a traditional Japanese family, pursuing a path in art was just not an option. After receiving BA in advertising and marketing – the most creative of the practical field – from Waseda University she landed on a position in PR for a big corporation in Tokyo.
It never made her quite happy, and she was in a mid-life crisis at age of 22.
Below: INTERVIEW MAGAZINE Once Upon A Time In Fashion project
Collaboration project with Interview Magazine (Feb. 2004 issue) and photographer Cleo Sullivan.
The artist created life size sets for the fashion feature based on a theme of “If children’s book characters grew up?”
Photographs: Cleo Sullivan, Styling: Annabel Tollman, set design: Yuko Shimizu, set design assistant: Sam Weber
The next 14 of february the artist will be for the first time in Mexico, Xalapa city, invited by Amarillo / centro de diseño to present her works. Dont’t miss it!!
more info below, 
For the lecture and show at Amarillo Centro de Deseño in Xalapa, Mexico, I have created a poster inspired by lucha libre. Poster is being silk screened in Mexico.
El próximo 14 de marzo estará por primera vez en México en la ciudad de Xalapa invitada por Amarillo / centro de diseño para presentar en una conferencia dirigida a estudiantes y profesionistas, e inaugurar una gran exposición de sus trabajos. Esta actividad se realiza con apoyo del FONCA y CONACULTA.
Conferencia Ágora de la ciudad · 16.30 hrs.
$100 (días antes del evento)
$120 (el día del evento)
CUPO LIMITADO
Exposición Amarillo / centro de diseño · 19 hrs.
Thanks in advance. Alvin.
[...] Yuko Shimizu was been drawing since she was a child. The influence on her traditional Japanese family sweeps through her sketches and illustrations of guitar-wielding and turntable-tacking rockstar. But Shimizu’s boldness is offset by deft touches of whimsy. On the set of a fashion feature, she helped create hand-drawn backgrounds of childhood storybooks, which contrast with grownup models revisiting favorite childhood characters like Dr. Seuss. [via fabrikproject] [...]
Hi
i would love to contact Yuko concerning purchasing her art and an art school/program in my home town in the Yukon.
Thanks
John