Jasu Hu

Born in Hunan, a province in South Central China. Jasu has worked as an illustrator in China for 6 years while studying Visual Communication at Tsinghua University (Beijing). After finishing her MFA in Illustration at MICA (USA), she moved to NYC, started freelancing illustration projects in U.S, mainly for editorials, advertisings and publications. She won the New Talent of AOI Illustration Award in 2014, and two medals of Award of Excellence by Communication Arts, The Best Illustrations of 2016 - 2019 by The Washington Post. "The Obama Legacy" project she illustrated for The Washington Post has won a national Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding New Approaches: Documentary.

Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Washington Post and on book covers, posters, apps, among other places. Her MTA poster "Moonlight Moment" has been displaying on subway platforms throughout the New York subway stations and on subway cars and buses during 2018 - 2019.

Recently she’s been working on her first children’s book and excited trying new challenges. In her spare time, she loves listening to 80s citypops & pianos, eating ramen, and researching weird buildings.

Selected Clients:

Adobe, Airbnb, BuzzFeed, ESPN, Entertainment Weekly, MTA, NBC News, New Republic, Nautilus, The Atlantic, The Boston Globe, The Economist, The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Tor, Scientific American MIND, Smithsonian Magazine, Success Magazine, PLANSPONSOR, O The Oprah Magazine, Variety, VOGUE, WWD