Xiaojie Liu 刘晓洁
Xiaojie Liu is an award-winning illustrator, pattern designer, and art educator based in the United States. She is represented by the UK-based Illo Agency and is the founder of Hillside Art Studio. She is also a member of the Society of Illustrators in New York and the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI).
She graduated from Hubei Institute of Fine Arts in 2015, specializing in illustration within the Department of Printmaking, and earned her MFA in Illustration from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design (MCAD) in 2018. Following graduation, she spent several years working professionally in visual design in Manhattan, New York. Her practice spans children’s books, editorial and publishing illustration, commercial visual design, and textile patterns. Drawing on a strong foundation in painting, she combines imaginative visual storytelling with a distinctive decorative sensibility, creating work with artistic depth and cross-cultural appeal. Her illustrations have been selected twice for AI-AP’s Latin American Ilustración annual and have received international recognition from the Cheltenham Illustration Awards, Creative Quarterly, and the iJungle Illustration Awards, as well as inclusion in the Asian Illustration Annual. Her work has been exhibited at venues including Printspace in the UK and IDS Center in the United States.
Her clients and collaborators include international brands such as Lyft, McDonald’s, and Walmart; publishers including Macmillan, Barefoot Books, Éditions Auzou, People’s Education Press, and Phoenix Publishing & Media Group; and media and cultural institutions such as ProPublica, the Weisman Art Museum, and the Minneapolis Institute of Art (MIA). Her children’s book illustration credits include Reporting the Weather, Sleeping Beauty, Metaverse, Computer Chips, Great Book of Fantastic Creatures, and Message in a Mooncake.
As an art educator, Liu brings professional artistic practice and international art training into the classroom. She builds on children’s natural interests and individual perspectives, guiding them to transform observation, intuition, and imagination into fully realized, expressive artwork. Her teaching emphasizes original thinking, aesthetic judgment, and the development of a personal visual language, encouraging children to move beyond familiar approaches, build creative confidence, and discover their own artistic voices.
Website: https://www.xiaojieliu.com/
刘晓洁（Xiaojie Liu），旅美获奖插画家、图案设计师、艺术教育工作者，英国 Illo Agency 签约艺术家，半山画室 Hillside Art Studio 创始人，纽约插画师协会（Society of Illustrators）、国际儿童图书作家与插画家协会（SCBWI）会员。
2015年本科毕业于湖北美术学院版画系插画专业，2018年获美国明尼阿波利斯艺术与设计学院（MCAD）插画硕士学位，毕业后在纽约曼哈顿从事多年专业视觉设计工作。创作领域涵盖儿童绘本、出版插画、商业视觉与纺织图案设计。她以扎实的绘画功底、富于想象力的视觉叙事与鲜明的装饰美感，形成兼具艺术表现力与跨文化感染力的个人风格。作品两度入选美国 AI-AP 拉丁美洲插画年鉴，并获得英国切尔滕纳姆插画奖、Creative Quarterly、iJungle 插画奖等国际专业认可，入选亚洲插画年鉴；作品曾于英国 Printspace、美国 IDS Center 等地展出。
她与国内外知名品牌、出版机构及文化机构保持广泛合作，客户包括 Lyft、麦当劳、沃尔玛，以及麦克米伦、Barefoot Books、法国 Éditions Auzou、人民教育出版社、凤凰出版传媒集团等，亦曾为 ProPublica、魏斯曼艺术博物馆、明尼阿波利斯艺术博物馆（MIA）等媒体与文博机构进行艺术创作。参与创作出版的儿童图书包括《报天气》《睡美人》《元宇宙》《芯片》《Great Book of Fantastic Creatures》《Message in a Mooncake》等。
在艺术教育方面，她将一线艺术家的创作经验与海内外专业艺术训练融入教学，尊重孩子天然的兴趣与独特视角，引导孩子将观察、直觉与想象转化为完整而富有表现力的作品。教学中着重培养原创思维、审美判断与个人艺术语言，鼓励孩子突破固有框架，在自主探索中建立创作自信，形成具有个人辨识度的艺术表达。