J YANG

is an illustrator with a very normal amount of interest in shrimp. Happens to be queer, Asian American, and residing in Iowa (grew up in NYC). Contact for book cover work; unavailable for longer projects.

• CLIENTS
  Amplify Education (2018–ongoing. Principal Digital Illustrator)
  Simon & Schuster (Like A Mother Bear, 2027)
  HarperCollins (The Queen Bees of Tybee County, 2024, If You’re a Kid Like Gavin, 2022)
  Abrams Books (The Good Hair Day, 2023)
  Scholastic (The Free State of Jax, 2025; Gut Reaction, 2023; The Secret Battle of Evan Pao, 2022; Attack of the Black Rectangles, 2022)
  Tor (Salt Water, 2023, Three O’Clock Dragon, 2023; Let All the Children Boogie, 2020; D.I.Y., 2022)
  Macmillan (May the Best Man Win, 2021)
  MTV (Hot Boy Summer, 2024)
  Little Bee/glaad (Our Rainbow & Spirit Day; 2018 & 2019)
  Valve

• I ran some charity artbooks that raised $13k in 2019—for more details, check out the projects tab

• I have a BFA in Communications Design Illustration from Pratt Institute.

For work inquiries, reach out at jyang1029@gmail.com.
For responses concerning your shop order, email artofjyang@gmail.com.

Drawing “diversity” is so important to me because art is the way I process things. Shaping my fingers around a nose, a stretch mark, a skin tone, a hearing aid, was the way I acknowledged that people with such characteristics existed in the world. It wasn’t comfortable; and I needed to sit in it, for the hours needed to research and draw it. Bodies are exquisite, lumpy things, creaking perilously, leaking fluids all the time, and there is so much to marvel at. Over time, I got comfortable with quite a bit. There’s always more though. I look forward to that feeling of being uncomfortable, one lil line at a time.

Conventions 2025

• ECCC

• Aquashella Dallas Texas

• Octagon Art Festival (probably)

• SLICE St Louis (probably)