NI SHAO 倪 韶 (SHE-HER)
I’m a visual storyteller working across writing, drawing and bookmaking. I hold an MA in Sequential Design/Illustration from the University of Brighton, UK. My debut author-illustrator picture book, The Crow and the Cherry Blossom, was published in Taiwan (2020) and later in Poland. Beyond my own books, I collaborate on literary works and editorial projects.
Informed by my lived experience as a queer Taiwanese artist, I create author-driven graphic stories that resist interpretive closure through word–image structures shaped by fragmentation, silence, and metaphor, keeping emotional experience unresolved and open to unstable interpretation.
A few small things I carry with me:
I dream every night (literally).
I write with my left hand and cook with my right hand.
I believe in unicorns.

HONOURS
2026|The Minicomic Awards, Nominee in non-fiction
2026|The Unpublished Picturebook Showcase 7, Longlist
2026|MOC Grant for Emerging Picture Book Creators, Grantee
2026|Nami Island International Picture Book Illustration Concours, Distinction
2025|Bologna Children’s Book Fair Illustrators Exhibition, Finalist
2024|IlloBoom! Annual Illustration Summit Challenge, Top 50
2024|School Textbooks Design Award, Merit Award
2023|3x3 International Illustration Show No.20, Merit Award
2022|National Human Rights Museum Picture Book Workshop, First Prize
2021|Feng Zikai Chinese Children's Picture Book Award, Longlist
2019|Hsin-Yi Foundation Children's Literature Awards, First Prize
CONTACT
For commissions, collaboations, or just to say hello, please reach out at: shaoni.art@gmail.com
FAIRS & FESTIVALS
2026|Nib & Ink Festival, Online reading event
2025|Taipei Art Book Fair, Huashan 1914 Creative Park, Taiwan
EXHIBITIONS
2026|From Illustration to Book at Malta Book Festival, MFCC, Malta
2024|SEE DIFFERENT Textbooks Design Exhibition, SCCP, Taiwan
2023|University of Brighton Graduate Show, Brighton CCA, UK
2022|致點亮星星的你 ,The Bay Picture Book Museum, Taiwan
2019|Image Taiwan Group Illustration Exhibition, HOSS Art space, Taiwan
2018|Awake In My Dream (Group), Exactly Space, Taiwan
2017|Scenery of the Body (Solo), Flowing Gaze Bookstore Life, Taiwan