Jacqueline is a Bay Area-based illustrator with a passion for creating bold, modern and playful imagery that challenges the ordinary. Growing up in a bilingual household of Japanese and English, she was always aware of the language divide. She returns time and again to the idea of imagery as a powerful tool for overcoming language barriers. 

She is fascinated by the tensions of perfection and imperfection, a dichotomy that she incorporates into her ideation process. After leaving the tech industry, where she honed her logical thinking skills, she now embraces the illogical to create unusual and absurd imagery. Jacqueline has also lived in Italy and Japan, and her time in each of these places has influenced her work in a spatially oriented way. Her work is playful and surreal, defying expectations and pushing boundaries.

• shortlisted for the World Illustration Awards in 2021 for Google murals
• presentation about the nature of acceptance, ICON 2022.