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Yuzhuan Zhou

Education

2023 - Present
Master of Fine Arts
Illustration, School of Visual Arts New York, NY

2019 - 2023
Bachelor of Fine Arts
Illustration, School of Visual Arts
New York, NY
Fall 2021 & Spring 2021 Term Honors
The School of Visual Arts Rhodes Family Award
for Outstanding Achievement in Illustration

Work Experiences

Illustrator

2024 Illustration Creation for the Colorful Guizhou Brand Pavilion – Colorful Ribbon, as part of the 2024 China Brand Day Event.

2023 Animals around you in Guiyang book - Wetland Edition, illustration series, natural science book, published by China Environment Publishing Group February

2022 The Legend of the Zanwang, story illustrations, published on the Guizhou Radio TV Station News client 

February 2022 The Legend of the Zanwang, story illustrations, published on the Guizhou Radio TV Station News client

2021-2022 Animals around you in Guiyang book series, illustration series, natural science book, published by China Environment Publishing Group

2019 Citibank China, Celebrating the Year of the Pig eCard, Single Illustration
2018-2019 Snow Leopard Conservation Program, Snow Leopard Cartoon Character Design and Derivative Product Project

2018 Guizhou Miao hero epic novel: Ancient Hero Yalu King, 26 illustrations on the cover and inside pages, has been officially published

2017-2018 The 24 Solar Terms, illustration Series
2017 Expound Spring, illustration, published on the 12th page of "Guizhou Daily" on February 8, 2017

Exhibitions

2024 The 14th National Exhibition of Fine Arts, China - Art & Design Category, Selected.

2024 School of Visual Arts (SVA) MFA in Illustration as Visual Essay Thesis Exhibition, Selected.

2023 Senior Thesis Show, SVA Chelsea Gallery

2023 MoCCA Fest 2023, SVA BFA Comics Pop-Up Show

August 2022 INTER-SPECIES INTER-SPACE, 2 illustrations (Creature & Newton's story), TriBeCa, New York

2020 Tibet Mount Everest Administration Mission Hall, a hand-painted project of 30 species of animals and plants under national protection, the construction of the exhibition hall has been completed

October 2020 The 4th China Greening Exposition Renewable Resource Reuse Creative Works Exhibition, GAZE series (Eastern imperial eagle, Guizhou salamander and white-tailed deer) were selected

June 2020 Painting Beauty Yunyan - Prevent and Control the Epidemic National Art Exhibition, Waiting for Spring

January 2020 Guizhou Rare Animal Art Creation Workshop Works Exhibition, GAZE series (Eastern imperial eagle and Guizhou salamander) were selected, The work was published on the EyesNews Client of Guizhou Daily on November 13, 2020

2018-2019 Collected by Vanke Biodiversity Exhibition Hall, Snow Leopard Conservation Plan, Snow leopard cartoon image design and derivative development project

2017 Citibank Guizhou Handicraft Development Project Guiyang Exhibition, Costume design work "Dai", Guiyang No.1 High School, "Blue Light" in the 7th Costume Design Competition

2017-2018 2017 Foundation Citibank Guizhou Handicraft Development Project Guiyang Exhibition, The 24 Solar Terms, 24 pieces of illustrations, Guiyang

The illustrations "Rain water", "Beginning of Summer" and "Summer Solstice" were published on the A17 page of "Guizhou Metropolitan Daily" on July 3, 2017

Awards

2024, The 14th National Fine Arts Exhibition - Art & Design Category, Selected.

2024, Communication Arts 2024, Award of Excellence.

2024, American Illustration 43, Winner.

2023, 2023 AKA NYC SVA Scholarship Program, Gold Award.

2023, Society of Illustrators Student Competition 2023, Winner.

2023, Distinguished Merit, 3x3 Internation- al Illustration Awards 2023 Student Show No.20,  work published in 3x3 Illustration Annual.

2023, iJUNGLE Illustration Awards 2023, Outstanding Achievement Award.

2023, Hiii ILLUSTRATION 2022 (10th Hiii ILLUSTRATION International Illustration Competition), Winner.

2023, Global Design Graduate Show 2023 in collaboration with Gucci, Finalist.

2023, The 8th Cross-Strait Youth Design Competition - Huacan Award, National Third Prize.