Open for commissions, collaborations, queries.
peihsincho@gmail.com
Pei-Hsin Cho
Pei-Hsin is a Taiwanese visual storyteller with a particular focus on illustration and animation, currently based in London.
Her work is narrative-based and revolves around sensationalism and sentimentalism, at themes of self-introspection, mentality, psychology. Combining traditional sketching and digital painting with multi-software, her visual language whispers in a tender but lingered voice that provoke emotional truths to its reader.
With her background of fine art practice, Pei’s work on contemporary animation and illustration usually contains a touch of experimental creativity. It takes personal sentiment and wraps this with rational narration to catalyze subjective experience and memory. She sees her work as graphic medicine or bandaid that plays a part as an emotional conditioner in the viewer's life.
p.s. She is hopelessly addicted to cat and tea.
Education
MA in Visual Communication/ Illustration, Royal College of Art, 2019
BFA in Animation, Taipei National University of the Arts, 2016
Honors
2019
World of Illustration Award, shortlisted
Sheila Robinson Memorial Drawing Award, winner
2017
3x3 Magazine, Student Show Winners No.14, Merit
Creative Quarterly 48, professional illustration, runner-up
2016
Windows of Formosa Film Festival, Taiwan, Award of WOFFF Picks
Exhibition
2019
World of Illustration Award Exhibition, Somerset House, London, UK
Royal College of Art Degree Show, London, UK
InShort Film Festival, Animated Realities, London, UK
Royal College of Art Work in Progress Show, London, UK
2018
Guilty Pleasure, ASP4, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, UK
Dance of Life: Tales from Church Street, London, UK
The Reader, Tenderbooks, London, UK
2017
The Self-Portrait for me and us - Onground gallery, Seoul, Korea
Ani Film Studio - King Car art and cultural centre, Taipei, Taiwan
Immerse Into Art, YZU, Taiwan
2016
On-Site Artfest - On Side Visual, Expo Dome, Taipei, Taiwan
Taipei National University of the Arts, Degree Show, Taipei, Taiwan
Anim!Arte International Student Animation Festival, Brazil
Windows of Formosa Film Festival, Taipei, Taiwan
CutOut Fest International Animation and Digital Art Festival, Mexico
KLIK! Amsterdam Animation Festival, Dutch, Art lovers program
On-Site Artfest, Taipei, Taiwan
Bucheon International Animation Festival (BIAF), Korea
Taichung International Animation Festival (TIAF), Taiwan
ANNY: Animation Nights New York, US
Animex Awards, UK InShort Film Festival, UK
Lecture
2019
Guest speaker at De Montfort University, Leicester, UK
Press