Yu-Ching Chiu is a Taiwanese illustrator currently based in the UK, who graduated from Cambridge School of Art with an MA degree in Illustration and Book Arts. She is passionate about visual storytelling and enjoys working with a mixture of digital and analogue methods. Her practice includes illustrations, graphic design, animations, videos, and art education.

Awards
2023 London Design Awards: Silver winner (Communication design)
2023 Communication Arts Illustration Competition: Shortlisted (Books)
2022 Unpublished Picturebook Showcase 4 (dPICTUS): Longlisted project
2022 3x3 Illustration Show No.19 Professional: Merit winner (Books)
2022 World Illustration Awards New Talent: Longlisted (Category: Design, Product & Packaging)
2021 Creative Conscience Awards: Shortlisted (Discipline: Animation, Theme: Mental Health)

Exhibition & Artist Residency
2023 ‘‘Tiny’’ Open Call Exhibition (Leeds, UK)
2022 The London Illustration Fair (London, UK)
2022 Artist Residency Programme at Pollock’s Toy Museum (London, UK)
2021 ‘‘Beyond Paper: Illustration and Book Arts” Group Exhibition (London, UK)
2021 Hackney Comic+Zine Fair (Online, UK)
2020 "Specimen of Youth" Solo Exhibition (Taipei, Taiwan)
2020 "The Magic Cure of A Hedgehog" Solo Exhibition (Taipei, Taiwan)
2019 Taipei Illustration Fair (Taipei, Taiwan)

Education
Cambridge School of Art (Anglia Ruskin University)
/Illustration and Book Arts MA

National Taipei University of the Arts
/Arts and Humanities Education MA

Fu Jen Catholic University
/ Communication Arts BA
/ Applied Arts

Publication
Lulu’s Flight / 2021 / UK: Self-published and Debuted in Hackney Comic+Zine Fair
Bibi The Hedgehog / 2020/ Taiwan: ElephantWhite