photography:VGRASS

Artist Bio


Vikki Zhang (张文绮) is a Chinese illustrator and comic artist based in Shanghai. With a love of textile and fashion, she is the founder and art director behind the innovative Neo-Chinese kids' fashion brand, NIANYI年衣( www.nianyi.com ). She began illustrating professionally since 2018, when she graduated from School of Visual Art MFA program.
Her artistic creation spans a wide range of disciplines, from pages of The New York Times and The Washington Post, fashion campaigns for GUCCI, Burberry, FILA, visual designs for Fujifilm, Tencent, Marvis, ADC New York, the Chinese Silk Museum, Asia Society Texas, and Chinatown London, to name a few. She has illustrated and designed covers for over 50 books. 
张文绮(Vikki Zhang),中国插画师,“蔬菜小姐系列“漫画作者,新国风品牌年衣创始人兼艺术总监。毕业于纽约视觉艺术学院插画MFA,现居上海并成立独立插画工作室。童年的水墨画学习经验塑造了文绮独特的绘画风格和审美,其作品充满生活细腻风趣的描绘,富有想象的人文历史元素,折射出她对时尚、戏剧、纹样和幻想世界此类主题的探索。曾与古驰,巴宝莉,伦敦中国城,玛尔仕,纽约时报,华盛顿邮报,中国丝绸博物馆等众多国内外一线品牌与机构合作。

小红书:@张文绮Vikki Zhang
Instagram:@0717vikki
Behance:Vikki Zhang


Awards


2023 The 66th Society of Illustrators , Gold Medal
2022 A Celebrate the Earth ReadingSelection/SCBWI 
2022 Anna Dewdney Read Together Award Honor Book.

2022 Paterson Prize for Books for Young Readers  Winner, K-3.
2022 The 43rd Society for News Design, Silver Medal
2022 The 8th Hiii Illustration InternationalCompetition, Commercial Gold Medal
2021  The 19th ADC Young Guns New York
2021 The 63rd Society of Illustrators , Silver Medal
2020 The 16th CACC Best Illustrations 
2019 The 13th National Exhibitions of Fine Art, China, Shortlisted 
2019Folio Society Book Illustration Competition, shortlisted 
2017 Annual National Best Books in China
2016-2017 Selected into American Illustrators, Society of Illustrators Los Angles 


Selected Clients





Interviews

ELLE DECO

The One Club

BranD

Vanity Teen 虚荣青年

RED小红书官方

CDQ UK

Sino Vision

ImagineFX

Little Thing 恋物志

YI TIAO 一条

Museum Views

Girlsclub Asia

High Tone Hong Kong

Little (Singapore)

Li Tang

... 

photography:VGRASS

Selected Publications



2024 New Pot City, Fanucci Editore, Rome,
 Italian (upcoming)

2024 New Pot City, THINKINGDOM, Beijing, 
Chinese (upcoming)

2023 The Lucky Red Envelope: A lift-the-flap Lunar New Year Celebration, 《幸运小红包》
 Wide Eyed Editions ,London, 
English & Chinese

2022 The Whole World Inside Nan’s Soup,
《汤里的秘密》

YeeHoo Press, San Diego, Author:  Hunter Liguore, 
English & Chinese

2020 Babel 17 and Empire Star, Centipede Press, USA, Author: Samuel R. Delany, 
English 

2019 Red Box, Vikki Zhang Art Book, Comic Fans Culture, Guangzhou, 
Chinese


2019 Go! Terra cotta Warriors, Author: Hongyou Dong, 21st Century Publishing Group, Jiangxi, 
Croatian & Chinese
Copyright: Vikki Zhang 2023