YUKO SHIMIZU is a Japanese illustrator who is currently residing and New York and have been working there since  2009.

People have witnessed her work on various VISA billboards, The Gap T-shirts, Microsoft and Target ads, Pepsi cans and also on the book covers of Penguin, DC Comics, Scholastic and sometimes on the pages of Time, Rolling Stone, NY Times, New Yorker and many other publications from last decade.

She has been working for the corporate world from the last 10 years while figuring out what she really wanted in life. Now she has her own studio in midtown Manhattan where she fulfills her passion and quench her thirst of art, the way she wants.