About Me

I am a freelance illustrator based in New York City. I also teach illustration at The Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT). I was born in Seoul, South Korea and came to the U.S. at the age of 3. After being raised in the forests of upstate New York I studied fine arts for 2 years at SUNY Albany, then 1 year abroad at Yonsei University in Seoul South Korea, and then started over at the Fashion Institute of Technology (F.I.T.) studying illustration for 4 years. After 7 years in NYC I made a big jump in 2008 and moved to Beijing just before the Olympics, not knowing when or if I'd be back. It turned into a 6 year adventure living in Beijing, Tokyo, Seoul, Barcelona, London, and Paris, all while freelancing with old and new clients from around the world. Now I'm back in NYC in Park Slope Brooklyn, jogging around the park with our rescue husky, brewing beer, tending to my rooftop vegetable garden, cooking dishes from all the countries I've lived in, and of course, illustratin' down in the digital coal mine with the shades down. I secretly wish I could exchange my drawing talent for Jazz piano talent, or to be able to wail like Al Green. You can see my misadventures on my travel blog
www.MisadventuresofJason.blogspot.com

Recognition:

Society of Illustrators 64, 63, 62, 61, 60, 59, 54

American Illustration 37, 34, 33, 29, 28, 26

Communication Arts 59, 53, 51

Spectrum 24

Spectrum 23

3x3 annual 2014

3x3 Magazine #19 Spotlight feature

Society of Illustrators NY Stevan Dohanos Award

Applied Arts Advertising Annual 2011

Communication Arts Advertising Annual 52

Advertising and Design Club of Canada (ADCC) Silver medal for illustration, Bronze for Posters and Newspaper Ads catergories

Illustration Now! 4 (Taschen)

Lürzers Archive 200 best illustrators worldwide

Computer Arts #145

Advanced Photoshop Magazine January 2011

W.E.B. Magazine (Korea) Dec 2010

Society of Illustrators LA 45

3x3 Illustration Annual 2006

Exhibitions:

2022 Fast Forward - FIT Faculty Alumni Exhibition - Fashion Institute of Technology, NY, NY

2022 Harman Projects - Moleskin Show- Mesa Arts Center, Mesa, AZ

2022 Sugoi! - Spoke Art Gallery - Japanese Anime Tribute Show - San Francisco, CA

2022 Detour - Harman Projects Gallery - New York, NY

2022 Detour - One World Trade Center Observatory - New York, NY

2021 Luminous Odyssey - Wow X Wow - Online

2021 9th Annual Moleskine Show - Spoke Art - San Francisco, CA

2021 NES One Sheet Poster Show - Gallery 1988 - Los Angeles, CA

2020 Miyazaki in NYC - Spoke Art (move online due to pandemic)

2020 Microvisions 3 - Wow X Wow - Online

2020 Grand Hotel 002 - Galerie Treize-Dix - Paris, France

2020 Powwow Hawai'i - Spoke Art 9th Annual Moleskine show - Honolulu, HI

2019 Apartment 5A, A Seinfeld Tribute Group Show - Spoke Art/Parasol Projects NY, NY

2016 Power Records - Kult Gallery - Singapore

Partial Client List:

Criterion Collection

Epic Games Fortnite

Lucas Film

Focus Features

Ralph Lauren

New York Times
Wall Street Journal
Washington Post
Boston Globe

The Atlantic
Nike

MTA

Bottleneck Gallery

SpokeArt

Time Magazine

Harlequin

The Guardian (UK)

Mayor's Office of NYC

Mr Porter (UK)

Barron's

Le Parisien (France)

Bottleneck Gallery
Le Nouvel Observateur (France)

Propublica

Financial Times

De Morgen (Belgium)

The Smithsonian

General Electric

Scientific American

Hollywood Reporter

Variety

Medium.com

Buzzfeed

The Nation

Reveal: From the Center of Investigative Reporting

The Progressive

Politico

Vox
Snapple
Yahoo! (Singapore, Philippines)
Saatchi and Saatchi (NY)
Leo Burnett (Toronto)
Procter & Gamble
Scholastic
United Airlines
LA Times

New Scientist (UK)

Morgenthal Frederics

Penthouse

01Net (France)

Reader's Digest (UK)

TheRinger.com

BBC Science Focus (UK)
Facebook (Singapore)
Radio Times (UK)
Tiger Beer (Singapore)
Mojo Magazine (UK)
The Times (UK)

Emory University
Time Out (Beijing)
MotorTrend
Kult Agency (Singapore)
Choonhae University (South Korea)
Slate.com
Virgin (UK)
Golf Magazine
American Medical Association
G2 - Grey Advertising (New York)
American Lawyer Media

Military Officer's Association of America
DLKW Lowe (London)
Ink Publishing (New York, London)
National Public Radio NPR
Chicago Tribune