Nicole Xu is a freelance illustrator who was born in Shanghai, grew up in Vancouver, Canada, and is now based in Portland, Oregon. She graduated from Rhode Island School of Design with a BFA in illustration and is represented by Rapp|Art.
Her debut picture book, βAll of A Sudden and Forever, Help and Healing after the Oklahoma City Bombing,β written by Chris Barton, is published by Lerner Publishing.
Feel free to email her directly at nicole@nicole-xu.com.
Clients Include
The New York Times
NPR
The New Yorker
Time Magazine
The Washington Post
The Intercept
US Holocaust Museum
Scientific American
Lerner Publishing
The Globe and Mail
Chronicle Books
Bloomberg
The Atlantic
The Economist
Pentagram
USC Magazine
ProPublica
The Walrus
Literary Review of Canada
Stanford Magazine
Plansponsor
Hazlitt
VICE
Buzzfeed
NBC News
Longreads
ESPN
Medium
Living Hyphen
Scholastic
Awards / Recognition
Forbes 30 Under 30 Art & Style 2022
American Illustration 36, 37
Society of Illustrators 60, 61, 63 (Silver Medal)
Society of Illustrators Student Show 2016
3x3 Magazine 2016