Tatsuro Kiuchi

A Tokyo based painter.

Tatsuro Kiuchi was born in Tokyo, Japan in 1966. Originally a graduate in Biology at International Christian University in Tokyo, He made the change to an art career after graduating with distinction from the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California.

He started illustrating mostly children’s books with several publishers in the US and Japan and eventually branched out into editorial work in magazines and the illustration of book jackets and advertising commissions.

His first picture book “The Lotus Seed” (text by Sherry Garland / Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) has sold more than 250,000 copies worldwide, and has been commissioned by such clients as Royal Mail to do Christmas Stamp Collection in 2006, and Starbucks for Worldwide Holiday Promotion “Pass the Cheer” in 2007.

Awards and Recognition

  • Communication Arts 52 Illustration Annual

    2011

  • Gold Medal, Institutional Category, Society of Illustrators 53rd Annual Exhibition
    Week Award, Editorial+Print Category, Design Week, UK
    American Illustration 29 Annual
    Communication Arts 51 Illustration Annual

    2010
  • Illustration «The Sea, The Sea»

    Silver Medal, Book Category, Society of Illustrators 52nd Annual Exhibition
    American Illustration 28 Annual
    Communication Arts 50 Illustration Annual

    2009

  • American Illustration 27 Annual
    Two Bronze Medals, 3×3 ProShow 2008
    Communication Arts 49 Illustration Annual

    2008

  • Communication Arts 48 Illustration Annual
    American Illustration 26 Annual
    3×3 Illustration Annual No. 4

    2007
  • 25th Annual American Illustrators hard cover book


    Society of Illustrators 48th Annual Exhibition
    American Illustration 25 Annual

    2006

  • Award for Illustration from Kodansha Publishing
    American Illustration 24 Annual
    3×3 Illustration Annual No. 2

    2005

  • New York Society of Illustrators 46th Annual Exhibition
    American Illustration 23 Annual

    2004
  • Book Illustrators 45

    Society of Illustrators 45th Annual Exhibition

    2003

  • Bronze Medal from the Tokyo Illustrators Society

    2001

  • Society of Illustrators 42nd Annual Exhibition
    Art Directors Club Annual

    2000
  • A shibainu in Central Park

    Communication Arts 36 Illustration Annual

    1995

  • Bologna International Children’s Book Art Annual
    Communication Arts 35 Illustration Annual

    1994
  • Country House

    Bronze Medal, Society of Illustrators of Los Angeles West 30

    1993
  • Cerisier Center 1991

    Bronze Medal, Society of Illustrators of Los Angeles West 30

    1991
Society Memberships
  • Tokio illustrators society logo

    Tokyo Illustrators Society

    2002
  • Society illustrators logo

    Society of Illustrators

    2010
Partial Client List
  • What Do the Birders Know?

    What Do the Birders Know? | The New York Times Sunday Review OPINION

    The New York Times
  • Illustration for STORY, WITH BIRD by Kevin Canty
    The New Yorker
  • Catalogue Cover for the Folio Society

    Catalogue Cover

    The Folio Society
  • Cover for the Washington Post Express Fall Arts Guide

    Express Fall Arts Guide

    Washington Post
  • Illustration for Last Night by James Salter.

    Illustrations for Last Night by James Salter

    The Guardian
  • Who's the Greenest? for Bloomberg Businessweek
    Bloomberg Businessweek

Tatsuro Kiuchi currently lives and works in Tokyo, Japan.

His illustration works can be found at a separate site.