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
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
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 DECOThe 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