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Nicole Xu

nicole@nicole-xu.com

  • Work
  • Picture Book
  • Black & White
  • About
  • Prints

About

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, “All of A Sudden and Forever, Help and Healing after the Oklahoma City Bombing,” 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

  • Facebook

  • 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

Features

  • Communication Arts 

  •  BOOOOOOOM

  •  Ape on the Moon 

  •  Inkygoodness 

  •  Ballpitmag 

  •  On Storie Q&A

 
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