Kazumi Wilds

Kazumi Wilds was born in Tokyo, Japan, and is a picture book illustrator and a creator of artist's books. She studied traditional Japanese painting at Joshibi University of Art and Design in Tokyo and graduated from the Graduate College of the University of Iowa Center for the Book, where she earned her MFA in Book Arts. Over the past twenty years, she has published picture books in Japan, the US, and Singapore. Her artists' books are included in collections at eleven universities and an art...See more

Kazumi Wilds was born in Tokyo, Japan, and is a picture book illustrator and a creator of artist's books. She studied traditional Japanese painting at Joshibi University of Art and Design in Tokyo and graduated from the Graduate College of the University of Iowa Center for the Book, where she earned her MFA in Book Arts. Over the past twenty years, she has published picture books in Japan, the US, and Singapore. Her artists' books are included in collections at eleven universities and an art museum in the US. Kazumi is currently teaching art courses at Temple University Japan Campus in Tokyo. See less