DQ is an awarding illustrator. She is listed in Forbes 30 under 30, Art & Style, class of 2020. DQ was born in China, Hakka heritage. She came to the US in 2012. Since then, she has been working as an Illustrator and Art Director. Her multi-city lifestyle and cultural exchange experience provide her with rich creative inspiration. She is also an avid collector of all things fashionable, and her particular style focuses on the combination of lifestyle and fashion. Currently, she is based in Los Angeles with her partner and their cat Sashimi.
Her cat Sashimi is also her inspirational muse, who works as her drawing assistant. When she is not drawing, she experiments with new recipes and scours the world searching for the best food ever. ก₍⸍⸌̣ʷ̣̫⸍̣⸌₎ค
DQ is always open to freelance projects, in-house work and art direction :) Feel free to contact her with any questions.
For illustration commission inquiries : decuewu@gmail.com | hello@illustrationx.com
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Selected Clients
Louis Vuitton / Sephora / Armani Exchange / Max Mara / Audi / Amazon / Audible / Airbnb / Facebook / Uber / Forbes / Puma / Sony Music / Soho House / Williams Sonoma / Harper Collins / Penguin Random House / Buck Design / Time Magazine / The New York Times / The Los Angeles Times / The Boston Globe / The Wall Street Journal / Vogue / Elle / Elle Decor / L'Officiel Hommes / Trader Joe’s / Rituals Cosmetics / Esquire / Jacob’s Creek / MIT / Wallpaper* / Harvard Business School / Johns Hopkins Nursing Magazine / AARP / Refinery29 / FOSSIL / Chipotle / Essie / Sourcebook, Inc. / Singapore Airlines / Dragonair Airlines / StarChefs / Dolce&Gabbana / Lane Crawford / Michael O'Mara Books / Young's Brewery & Co / Oppo / Sina Weibo (新浪微博) / Tencent (腾讯) / Meituan (美团) and more.
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Awards
Forbes 30 under 30 Art & Style, Class of 2020
Illustration West 55 (Society of Illustrators of LA)
Applied Arts
American Illustration
Hiii Illustration
Adobe Design Award Semi-final
3x3 Student Show
Creative Quarterly
International Art Competition
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Interview and Press
New Romantics Book Club, Facebook Design, Creatively, Rituals, The Babe Brigade, Forbes, Ballpitmag, Girlsclub.Asia, Oppo, Armani Exchange, VoyageLA, Ground Ooh Art, TettyBetty, Cat Fans猫迷, 最毕设, Improper Bostonian, YOHO!, Association of Illustration, Vogue Spain, Vogue Brazil, Vogue China, The Boston Globe, Asian Couture Federation, Sebastian Gunawan, Illustrator, Picture Magazine, Draw A Dot, Swide, Brown Paper Bag, Fashionary Hand, Arty Magazine, Baltimore Sun, Wrap Magazine, Edge Neocha, Haibao.com, Fusion of Effects
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Work published in
2021 AWW Vol.4
2020 Little Mountain Press 2021 Calendar
2020 Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls: 100 Immigrant Women Who Changed The World, Rebel Girls
2020 Cover and interior illustrations for The New York Times: Right at Home: How to Buy, Decorate, Organize and Maintain Your Space
2020 AWW Vol.2
2019 Cats Rock: Felines in Contemporary Art and Pop Culture, Abrams Book
2016 Bonjour Tristesse, Cover illustration published by People's Literature Publishing House
2015 MAGIC PAINTBRUSH by Illustration by Hightone Publishing
2014 Playing with Sketches: 50 Creative Exercises for Designers and Artists by Rockport Publishers
2013 Going Upstream by China Academy of Art
2013 Art Revolution Taipei by Taiwan International Contemporary Artist Association
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Exhibition
2022 Faith and Hopes, Realm Gallery Chinatown, Los Angeles, CA
2022 Red Envelope show, Hashimoto Contemporary NYC
2021 Live in the Sunset, Art Yourself Studio, Virtual Solo Exhibit
2021 The Year of the Ox, Chinese American Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2020 Red Envelopes Show, City Point Brooklyn, Brooklyn, NY
2020 Red Envelopes Show, Chinese American Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2019 Make A Wish Season Gift Box, Raffles City Shanghai (上海来福士广场), Shanghai, China
2019 Buddy Blue pop-up store, The Power Station of Art (上海当代艺术博物馆), Shanghai, China
2019 ASIA ILLUSTRATION FAIR, The Long Museum (上海宝龙美术馆), Shanghai, China
2019 CIRCLE: Illustration Retrospective Show, Raffles City Shanghai (上海来福士广场), Shanghai, China
2019 Vogue Me “不惧年轻，你就这样” , Columbia Country Club (上生新所), Shanghai, China
2018 New China Chic: A Fusion of East and West, The Power Station of Art (上海当代艺术博物馆), Shanghai, China
2018 CIRCLE: Illustration Show, FOR TianWu Space (天物空间), Shanghai, China
2018 China Pop: Contemporary Year of the Dog, The Delaware Contemporary, Wilmington, DE
2017 Decue Wu Zodiac 2018 Calendar, Dust Muffin Silverlake, Los Angeles, CA
2017 Illuminations, Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center, MGH, MA
2017 Vogue Me One year anniversary fashion showroom, 三里屯, Beijing, China
2017 Home Decor Fair and Design Arena, Poland http://www.arenadesign.pl/en/
2017 Illustration West 55, Society of Illustrators of Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2016 The Fifty Dollar Art Show, Lucky Cat Labs, Los Angeles, CA
2016 Botanica - Jewels of the Earth, Light Grey Art Lab, Minneapolis, MN
2015-2016 Across Poland with Best Fashion Illustration. Fall 2015 - Spring 2016, Łódź, Poland (http://www.modernart.com.pl/)
2015 Easy-Art show, OOAK Concept Boutique, Shanghai, China
2015 "Wild Imagination", Cracow Fashion Week, Gallery of Jewish Community Centre, Poland
2014 "The Art of the Heirloom", New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
2014 Hill Center's Regional Juried Exhibition, Hill Center at the Old Naval Hospital, Washington, D.C
2014 Thesis Show, Decker Gallery, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
2014 International Art Competition, Art Revolutionary Taipei, Taipei
2014 CQ34 Winners Show, Creative Quarterly 34 Online Gallery
2013 MD Art @ College Park, Art Gallery, University of Maryland College Park, MD
2013 IC 16 Juried Show, PEPCO Edison Place Gallery, Washington, D.C
2013 The Sketchbook Project, Brooklyn Art Library, New York, NY
2013 "Going Upstream", China Academy of Art (中国美术学院), China
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Gallery & Store
Little Mountain Press (https://www.littlemountainpress.com) at New York City & Shenzhen, China
Ooga Booga (https://shop.oogaboogastore.com) at Los Angeles, USA
Äventyr (https://www.aventyr.de/) at Berlin, Germany
Printed Matter (https://www.printedmatter.org/catalog/53120/) at New York City, USA
Malapata Galery (https://www.malapata.pt/) at Lisbon, Portugal
The Delaware Contemporary (https://www.decontemporary.org/gallery-shop) at Wilmington, USA
Magpie (https://magpie-store.com/) at Boston, USA
Tekuma (http://tekuma.io/) at Boston, USA
We Gallery (http://www.we-gallery.com/) at Shenzhen, China
旁白VoiceOver (https://world.taobao.com/dianpu/102881344.htm), China