Vikki Zhang
Vikki Zhang (张文绮) is a Chinese illustrator and comic artist based in Shanghai. With a love of textile and fashion, she is the founder and art director behind the innovative Neo-Chinese kids' fashion brand, NIANYI年衣( www.nianyi.com ). She began illustrating professionally since 2018, when she graduated from School of Visual Art MFA program.
Her artistic creation spans a wide range of disciplines, from pages of The New York Times and The Washington Post, fashion campaigns for GUCCI, Burberry, FILA, visual designs for Fujifilm, Tencent, Marvis, ADC New York, the Chinese Silk Museum, Asia Society Texas, and Chinatown London, to name a few. She has illustrated and designed covers for over 50 books.
- 2023 The 66th Society of Illustrators , Gold Medal
- 2022 A Celebrate the Earth ReadingSelection/SCBWI
- 2022 Anna Dewdney Read Together Award Honor Book.
- 2022 Paterson Prize for Books for Young Readers Winner, K-3.
- 2022 The 43rd Society for News Design, Silver Medal
- 2022 The 8th Hiii Illustration InternationalCompetition, Commercial Gold Medal
- 2021 The 19th ADC Young Guns New York
- 2021 The 63rd Society of Illustrators , Silver Medal
- 2020 The 16th CACC Best Illustrations
- 2019 The 13th National Exhibitions of Fine Art, China, Shortlisted
- 2019Folio Society Book Illustration Competition, shortlisted
- 2017 Annual National Best Books in China
- 2016-2017 Selected into American Illustrators, Society of Illustrators Los Angles
Selected Clients: Gucci, Burberry, Food&Wine, The Washington Post, Tencent, Huawei, Beast, Marvis, New York Times, Winsor&Newton, Fila, McDonald’s, Aldi, Fujifilm