Yu-Ching Chiu is an artist who works in the UK and Taiwan. As an illustrator and a designer, her work is mostly sequential, narrative-based and with the use of metaphors, being particularly influenced by whimsical and peculiar themes. She is also an artist-teacher who has over 7 years of teaching experience with a focus on collaborative creative process.

Awards
2025 Communication Arts Illustration Competition: Shortlisted (Uncharted Land)
2023 London Design Awards: Silver winner (Noah’s Ark)
2023 Communication Arts Illustration Competition: Shortlisted (Rabbit, Cactus, Accident)
2022 Unpublished Picturebook Showcase 4 (dPICTUS): Longlisted (Rabbit, Cactus,Accident)
2022 3x3 Illustration Show No.19 Professional: Merit winner (Rabbit, Cactus, Accident)
2022 World Illustration Awards New Talent: Longlisted (Needy Greeting Card)
2021 Creative Conscience Awards: Shortlisted (Words in the Morning)

Exhibition & Artist Residency (Selected)
2024 ‘‘A Story Being Told Quietly” Solo Exhibition (Tainan, Taiwan)
2024 ‘‘The Grange Project” Artist Residency Programme run by LDComics (Norfolk, UK)
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 "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

Artist CV available upon request