About the artist

Shoko Ishida, a.k.a. YODAKA is a Japanese illustrator and artist based in Michigan, with BFA in Illustration from College for Creative Studies. She’s mostly known for her delicate portraits with eye-catching shapes and uses negative spaces to give a feeling of the unusual. Inspired by music, fashion, nature, the nostalgia and her daydreams, the illustrative storyteller creates her mixed media works for stories and galleries. Some of her clients include Penguin Random House, Erewhon Books, and Harper Collins, and have shown works in galleries around the world.

Info

email: shoko@shoko-ishida.com

Selected Exhibitions

2023 “From All Directions”, Open Gallery, Long Beach, CA.
2022 “SUPERSONIC: VISIONS", Supersonic art.
2022 “Future Nostalgia, HOT NOIZE, Historic Filipinotown, LA.
2022 “The 10th Annual Supersonic Invitational" curated by Zach Tutor presented by Harman Projects, Los Angeles, CA.
2021 “WOW² (Volume V)”, WOW x WOW.
2021 “Stardust Antennas”, WOW x WOW.
2020 “WOW² (Volume IV)”, WOW x WOW.
2020 “Echoes”, combined solo show, Outré Gallery, Melbourne, Australia.
2020 “Salut! Coaster Show”, Gallery Nucleus Portland, OR.
2020 “Microdose Group Show”, Gallery Nucleus Portland, OR.
2019 “The Red Altar”, Kinda None-sense, Chinatown, LA.
2019 “Fantasy Show”, The Black Box Gallery, Detroit, MI.
2019 “WOW² (Volume III)”, WOW x WOW.
2019 “VANGUARD”, Outré Gallery, Melbourne, Australia.
2019 “Monochromagic 2”, WOW x WOW.
2019 “The 8th Annual Supersonic Invitational" curated by Zach Tutor at Spoke Art Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
2019 3 person show, Gallery Nucleus Portland, OR.
2018 "Soul Shapes”, 6 person show, WOW x WOW.
2018 "Infinite Well", curated by Time Maclean, Gallery Nucleus Portland, OR.
2017 "Unicorn II Group Exhibition", Gallery Nucleus Portland, OR.
2017 "Lightening Bolts & Little Sparks", WOW x WOW.
2016 Society of Illustrators Annual Student Exhibition, New York, NY.
2014 New Art New Artists, Michigan College Juried Exhibition, Ann Arbor, MI.

Publication

2019 dpi Magazine Taiwan
2016 Communication Arts Illustration Annual

Interview

2020 Outré Gallery
2019 Girlsclub Asia
2019 Fresh | Communication Arts
2015 Instagram interview: "Illustrative storytelling with Shoko Ishida"