MEDIA COVERAGE
May 2026
《深圳青年》Shenzhen Youth，
Shenzhen, China
Jan 2024
Interview Featured
by Broken Frontier,
UK
Sept 2023
《潮新闻》Tide News，
Hangzhou China
April 2023
Fire Flowers Comic Book Review,
Broken Frontier,
UK
Feb 2023
One of “Six Small Press Creators to Watch”,
Broken Frontier, UK
Jan 2022“Edinburgh in a view of an Chinese Illustrator”.
Discover Scotland,China/Scotland
AWARDS
2024
GRAND PRIX
CLASSICS The Small Luxuary Design Award, Japan
2023
Longlisted
BOit!
International Illustration Contest, Italy
2021-2022 Distinction
MA Illustration,
Edinburgh College of Art,
The University of Edinburgh
2021/2022
Chevening Scholarship,
FCDO, UK
2021
Shorlisted
London International Creative Competition, UK
EXHIBITIONS
Feb 2026
Minibook Exhibition
Seoul, South Korea
Jan 2025
Year of Snake Illustration Exhibition by SIA Shenzhen, China
Oct - Dec 2024
Classics The Small Luxuary Design Award Exhibition Tokyo,Japan
May 2024
‘Walking in Comics’
Beijing, China
FESTIVALS/ FAIRS
Mar 2026/ May 2025
BIGGER Art Fair
Shenzhen China
June 2025/ July 2024
UNFOLD Artbook Fair
Shenzhen China
Sept 2023
abC Art Book Fair,
Hangzhou China
Jul 2023
Artist Residency
Lotte Pottery Workshop,
Jingdezhen China
Nov 2022
Thoughtbubble Comic Art Festival, Harrogate, UK
Oct 2022
HALLOZINE Fair,Dundee, UK
Sept 2022
Leeds Zine Fair, Leeds, UK
Sept 2022
Founders’ Art Fair Edinburgh, UK
Aug 2022
Fanzineist Vienna Art Book & Zine Fair,Vienna, Austria
Jun 2022
Meadows Garden Party Creative Market, Edinburgh, UK
Mar 2022
BOOKMARK ECA’s Artists’Book&Zine Fair,Edinburgh, UK
Member of Association of Illustrators
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Professional Member of Shenzhen Illustration Association (SIA)
May 2026
《深圳青年》Shenzhen Youth，
Shenzhen, China
Jan 2024
Interview Featured
by Broken Frontier,
UK
Sept 2023
《潮新闻》Tide News，
Hangzhou China
April 2023
Fire Flowers Comic Book Review,
Broken Frontier,
UK
Feb 2023
One of “Six Small Press Creators to Watch”,
Broken Frontier, UK
Jan 2022“Edinburgh in a view of an Chinese Illustrator”.
Discover Scotland,China/Scotland
AWARDS
2024
GRAND PRIX
CLASSICS The Small Luxuary Design Award, Japan
2023
Longlisted
BOit!
International Illustration Contest, Italy
2021-2022 Distinction
MA Illustration,
Edinburgh College of Art,
The University of Edinburgh
2021/2022
Chevening Scholarship,
FCDO, UK
2021
Shorlisted
London International Creative Competition, UK
EXHIBITIONS
Feb 2026
Minibook Exhibition
Seoul, South Korea
Jan 2025
Year of Snake Illustration Exhibition by SIA Shenzhen, China
Oct - Dec 2024
Classics The Small Luxuary Design Award Exhibition Tokyo,Japan
May 2024
‘Walking in Comics’
Beijing, China
FESTIVALS/ FAIRS
Mar 2026/ May 2025
BIGGER Art Fair
Shenzhen China
June 2025/ July 2024
UNFOLD Artbook Fair
Shenzhen China
Sept 2023
abC Art Book Fair,
Hangzhou China
Jul 2023
Artist Residency
Lotte Pottery Workshop,
Jingdezhen China
Nov 2022
Thoughtbubble Comic Art Festival, Harrogate, UK
Oct 2022
HALLOZINE Fair,Dundee, UK
Sept 2022
Leeds Zine Fair, Leeds, UK
Sept 2022
Founders’ Art Fair Edinburgh, UK
Aug 2022
Fanzineist Vienna Art Book & Zine Fair,Vienna, Austria
Jun 2022
Meadows Garden Party Creative Market, Edinburgh, UK
Mar 2022
BOOKMARK ECA’s Artists’Book&Zine Fair,Edinburgh, UK
Member of Association of Illustrators
Professional Member of Shenzhen Illustration Association (SIA)
你好 Hello Bonjour Hej こんにちは![Photograph by Wendy Zhong]()
Photograph by Wendy Zhong
I am Xiaoyi
Pronounced as ‘Hsiao-ii’ :)Thank you for stumbling upon my website!
I am an illustrator / comics creator from south China. After having been a book editor, translator, au pair, language teacher, international manager in my previous 12 years, I came into my calling to study Illustration in the UK as a Chevening Scholar in 2021. And since then I started my art career.
I like to communicate with my audience with visual storytelling. I take sequential illustrations as a means for both self-expression and reflecting the world and people who have inspired my vision.
My recent theme focuses on the multi-sensory experience of a blind character, where I sought to bring an inclusive perspective to my audience and make visual storytelling accessible. My approaches explore the combination of traditional and digital drawings with printmaking and risograph printing.
I am open for collaboration, whether on a commercial, humanitarian or charity project.
Feel free to contact me for new projects or licence requests for my existed works :)
︎ xiaoyihuart@gmail.com
WeChat: 33136057