About YUUKI JIA

Yuuki Jia is an artist whose multidisciplinary creative career spans character design, illustration, and therapeutic visual storytelling. She holds a BA in Mathematics and Studio Art from Bard College in New York, pursued further illustration studies at Kyoto University and Seika University, and earned her MFA in Digipen, Seattle. She currently works as a game concept artist, while also freelancing as an illustrator and comic artist for books and animations.

Professionally, Yuuki has contributed to Disney, Webtoon, and Microsoft. She held in-house roles as a concept designer and storyboard artist at Stela—then a widely followed and fast-growing platform—where she delivered popular titles such as Rumi, Perfect Timing, and Rumple. She later served as lead artist at Minerva Interactive during a transitional phase, successfully shipping a Pride and Prejudice-inspired single-player narrative game on Steam. In that role, she elevated the game’s visual identity while navigating the constraints of inherited legacy assets.

In 2025, Yuuki’s debut art book Fizz Q.E.D. was published by a Spanish press and distributed across Europe. Her original illustrated children’s books, The Journey of a Water Drop and Red Festival, available on Amazon, received enthusiastic reviews. That same year, she was featured in interviews with the Robert B. McMillen Foundation Spotlight and the Asian Artist Club, where she was recognized for her interdisciplinary approach blending fine art, storytelling, and cultural memory.

Yuuki’s personal artwork has been featured in solo and group exhibitions, including Pioneer Square in Seattle, Gallery Nucleus, and Nucleus Portland. She has been an invited exhibitor at Gallery Nucleus’s annual SALUT show for six consecutive years, culminating in the 10th anniversary edition in 2025. Her pieces sold out on opening day each year. She continues to collaborate with Gallery Nucleus and the Vancouver Art Gallery, which carry her canvases and prints.

She is also a regular guest at major expos and conventions including Lightbox Expo, CTN, ECCC, NYCC, NYAC, and other events across the visual arts and publishing communities. Alongside her creative work, she completed certifications in art therapy and has been developing a practice that merges storytelling with emotional healing. She led a pilot workshop at DigiPen centered on guided meditation through historical art, which received encouraging feedback. Despite the demanding pace of early motherhood, she continues to explore new formats—often during the quiet hours shaped by her daughter’s rhythms, whose presence remains the quiet heart of her days.

Yuuki’s artistry emerged from her childhood interactions with the woods and walls she painted in diverse cultures, evolving into a medium for exploring open-ended questions about the universe. For her, art is not merely a vocation but a pathway to inquiry, with each canvas serving as a space for exploration.

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