Hello friend! This is Jasu Hu（pronounce: jay-su). I’m an illustrator and a picture book artist living in China and the U.S.
Who is Jasu?
Born in Hunan, China, Jasu has worked as an illustrator in China for 6 years while studying Visual Communication at Tsinghua University (Beijing). After finishing her MFA in Illustration at Maryland Institute College of Art (USA), she moved to NYC, started freelancing illustration projects in the U.S, mainly for editorials, advertisings and publications. She won the New Talent of AOI Illustration Award in 2014, and two medals of Award of Excellence by Communication Arts, The Best Illustrations of 2016 - 2019 by The Washington Post. "The Obama Legacy" project she illustrated for The Washington Post has won a national Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding New Approaches: Documentary.
Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Washington Post and on book covers, posters, apps, among other places. Her MTA poster "Moonlight Moment" has been displaying on subway platforms throughout the New York subway stations and on subway cars and buses during 2018 - 2019.
Education:
BFA Visual Communication, Tsinghua University
MFA Illustration Practice, Maryland Institute College of Art
Her Clients include
Editorial
The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, The Boston Globe, The Economist, Entertainment Weekly, Variety, VOGUE, WWD, NBC News, Scientific American MIND, New Republic, Nautilus, Smithsonian Magazine, Success Magazine, PLANSPONSOR, O The Oprah Magazine, Real Simple…
Publishing
Penguin Random House, Neal Porter Books/Holiday House, Tor.com, Chronicle Books, Nosy Crow
Advertising
Apple, Airbnb, Adobe, Loro Piana, Wells Fargo, The Ritz-Carlton Hotel, Acura, NYPR, MTA Transit, The New York Times T-Brand…
Film & TV
Hear Her (2020) 听见她说
Know more about her?
Press:
Adobe | Art Directors Club | Association of Illustrators | VAROOM! | Ape on the Moon | Communication Arts | Illustration Age | TINYBOP | WeTransfer | KALEIDOSCOPE: The Art of Illustrative Storytelling |
Artist Interview:
Awards she received
38th Emmy Award nomination (Outstanding New Approaches: Documentary)
Award of Excellence, Communication Arts 2017
Award of Excellence, 38th Society of New Design Annual Creative Competition
The Best Illustrations of the Year, The Washington Post 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019
New Talent Award, AOI Illustration Awards 2014
Selected Winner, Illustrators 57, 58, 59, Society of Illustrators
Selected Winner, American Illustration 33, 35, 37
Merit Winner, 3x3 Illustration No. 11, No. 12
Award of Excellence, Creative Quarterly 36, 42
Selected Winner, Spectrum Fantastic Art 21 Annual Award
Speakings she did
Maryland Institute College of Art, MA Illustration & MFA Illustration Practice, Talk & Workshop & Critique, 2019
ICON 10 Illustration Conferences, “China, New York, and The Drawings in Between”, 2018
Syracuse University MFA Illustration Symposium, 2018
MICA Illustration Alumni Panel Talk, 2017
Illustration Masters Talk Tour, Central Academy of Fine Arts & Academy of Arts & Design，Tsinghua University & Beijing Film Academy, China, 2016
Exhibitions she had
Circle Illustration Show | FOR TianWu Space| Shanghai, China
Illustrators 59 Annual Exhibition | Museum of American Illustration | New York, U.S. |
Illustrators 58 Annual Exhibition | Museum of American Illustration | New York, U.S. |
Illustrators 57 Annual Exhibition | Museum of American Illustration | New York, U.S. | 7 January – 30 January 2015
AOI Illustration Awards Exhibition | Somerset House | London, U.K. | 2 October – 2 November 2014
Eureka! Poster Show | Group Show | Spur Design Gallery | Baltimore, MD. U.S | April, 2014