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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.

pencil drawing self-portrait of Shao

HONOURS

2026The Minicomic Awards, Nominee in non-fiction
2026The Unpublished Picturebook Showcase 7, Longlist
2026MOC Grant for Emerging Picture Book Creators, Grantee
2026Nami Island International Picture Book Illustration Concours, Distinction

2025Bologna Children’s Book Fair Illustrators Exhibition, Finalist

2024IlloBoom! Annual Illustration Summit Challenge, Top 50

2024School Textbooks Design Award, Merit Award

20233x3 International Illustration Show No.20, Merit Award

2022National Human Rights Museum Picture Book Workshop, First Prize
2021
Feng Zikai Chinese Children's Picture Book Award, Longlist 

2019Hsin-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 

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FAIRS & FESTIVALS

2026Nib & Ink Festival, Online reading event

2025Taipei Art Book Fair, Huashan 1914 Creative Park, Taiwan

2025TransPort 30 Literary Festival, RCK Kołobrzeg, Poland

EXHIBITIONS

2026From Illustration to Book at Malta Book Festival, MFCC, Malta
2024SEE DIFFERENT Textbooks Design Exhibition, SCCP, Taiwan

2023University of Brighton Graduate Show, Brighton CCA, UK

2022致點亮星星的你 ,The Bay Picture Book Museum, Taiwan

2019Image Taiwan Group Illustration Exhibition, HOSS Art space, Taiwan

2018Awake In My Dream (Group), Exactly Space, Taiwan

2017Scenery of the Body (Solo), Flowing Gaze Bookstore Life, Taiwan

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