JooHee Yoon

Seoul, 1989.

JooHee Yoon studied at the Rhode Island School of Design, where she graduated in 2011. In 2013 she was selected at the Illustrators Exhibition of the Bologna Children's Book Fair and she won the Ars in Fabula Grant Award. During the Master course she worked on the project "Re Tigre", a story by James Thurber, assigned by the publisher Orecchio Acerbo, published in 2014 in co-edition with Else Edizioni. With this debut book in 2015 she won the New York Times Best Illustrated Book Award. Her works have been selected in numerous exhibitions including: Society of Illustrators in New York (2017), Ilustrarte Biennial in Lisbon (2018), Albus Gallery in Seoul (2019). She has received numerous awards, including: the Golden Medal of the Society of Illustrators New York (2014), Nami Concours Gold Island Awards (2017).

"Re Tigre" by James Thurber (Orecchio Acerbo/Else Edizioni)

Technique: screen printing