NIN - 2020 Angouleme - Comic Artists Featured in Taiwan Pavilion

NIN

LI Yu-ning's pen name, NIN, is inspired by part of her Chinese name (凝, Ning), which means "coalesce". NIN channels this concept in her art, as well as in her life, by concentrating on and bringing into focus anything worth cherishing.

NIN has loved to draw and paint ever since she was little,
and she was deeply influenced by Japanese manga and anime growing up.

After taking art in high school,
she went on to earn a degree from the Department of Visual Communication Design
at National Taiwan University of the Arts. Driven by an intense desire to tell colorful stories about life,
NIN often experiments with fusing together elements of drawing, painting,
and graphic design to create illustrations and cartoons that convey fun and quirky perceptions.

With a knack for watercolors and pen sketching and her diverse style reflecting Japanese and European influences,
NIN's spirited, stylish art captures imaginations and stirs emotions.

Awards and Exhibitions:

2019  Twenty-Four Seven Illustrators' Exhibit / Eslite Bookstore Dunnan Branch

2018  Xing Xing, Best Comic Plot Award, International Comics and Animation Exhibition, Changchun, Jilin Province

2018  Moving, Watercolor illustrations exhibit / King Car Education Foundation

2017  Something Broken, Watercolor illustrations exhibit

2016  6:59 NIN x RCC, Interdisciplinary visual art exhibit

2015  Journey on your desk, Illustrations exhibit

2012  NIN x Lino: Pieces of Rainbow, Illustrators' duo exhibit

2012  Notes & Rests, Solo illustrations exhibit

2012  Lead Visual Designer, National Museum of History x Handcrafted Style, History Museum Section at Creative Expo

Selected Works:

2018  You Are the Apple of My Eye Comic strip / Self-published

2016  NEVER GONE Comic strip / Self-published

2013  Sleeping Tale of Them Comic strip / Self-published

2012  Nightmare of the Lost Comic strip / Self-published

2011  Echo of Dew & Snow Comic strip / Self-published

2011  Dew of Dawn Compilation of selected images / Self-published

2009  Shining Night Comic strip / Self-published

2008  Counter Clockwise Comic strip / Self-published

2008  Birds in the Cage Comic strip / Self-published

2007  In the Cabinet Comic strip / Self-published

2006  P I P Compilation of selected images / Self-published

2005  Homemade Cookies Compilation of selected images / Self-published