About

Nicole Xu is a freelance illustrator who was born in

Shanghai, grew up in Vancouver, Canada, and is now based

in Brooklyn, NY. She recently graduated from Rhode Island

School of Design with a BFA in illustration and is

represented by Gerald & Cullen Rapp.

Feel free to contact her at nicole@nicole-xu.com!

Clients

The New York Times // NPR // The Globe and Mail //

Nautilus // Plansponsor // VICE // Buzzfeed // Village Voice

// Spectrum // Advertising Age // Stanford Magazine //

Scientific American // The Walrus // Living Hyphen // Hazlitt

// Boston Globe Magazine // BUST Magazine // Bitch Media

// Portland Mercury // BOOOOOOOM x Society6 // ON!

Storie // Narratively // YES! Magazine // US Holocaust

Memorial Museum // Wake Forest Magazine // 

The Washington Post // NBC News // Christianity Today

// Teaching Tolerance // The Verge // Literary Review of

Canada // WebMD // Lerner Publishing Group 

Awards / Recognition

American Illustration 36, 37 // Society of Illustrators 60 //

Society of Illustrators Student Show 2016 // 3x3 Magazine

Features

Communication Arts // BOOOOOOOM // Ape on the

Moon // Inkygoodness // Ballpitmag // On Storie Q&A