is a multi-award-winning Japanese illustrator based in New York City.  Yuko is also an instructor at The School of Visual Arts and has 20+ years of experience illustrating. Her work includes multiple disciplines; from pages ofThe New York Times, TIME, Newsweek, and The New Yorker to WIRED,  covers for DC Comic, Penguin Random House, and Scholastic, and advertising for BBC, Apple, Google, Microsoft, Intel, Universal Pictures, SONY, Paramount, MTV, Nike, Hasbro, and Target, to name a few.Additionally, she has collaborated with the United Nations, Smithsonian Museum, Philadelphia Museum of Art, and Library of Congress. In 2020, collaboration with Artechouse brought her drawings to large-scale interactive experiences. Yuko is a two-time Hugo Award nominee (2019, 2020), has earned multiple Clio Awards (2023), has won more than 15 medals from the Society of Illustratorssince 2004, and was inducted into their Hall of Fame in 2024. In 2021 she was awarded the Caldecott Honor, one of the highest awards for picture books, for her work on the children’s bookThe Cat Man of Aleppo(Penguin, 2020).  Yuko was also chosen as one of the “100 Japanese People the World Respects (世界が尊敬する日本人１００）” byNewsweek Japanin 2009. Yuko is selected to be a member ofAGI (Alliance Graphique Internationale)since 2023.