Catia Chien - Yas Imamura - Angie Kang

We are super happy to welcome three extraordinary illustrators CATIA CHIEN, YAS IMAMURA and ANGIE KANG.

Their beautiful books were selected from over 800 submissions to the Society of Illustrators 45th annual Original Art Exhibition, which features 240 of the Best in Picture Books 2025!! On display until January 24th with an opening ceremony on Friday, November 14th.

CATIA CHIEN, YAS IMAMURA and ANGIE KANG are all honored at The Original Art 2025 at the Society of illustrators:

🏅 CATIA CHIEN – Gold Medal

🥈 YAS IMAMURA– Silver Medal

🎨 ANGIE KANG – Dilys Evans Founder’s Award

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The delightful Clare Pernice, Children’s Programs Consultant at the Society of Illustrators , will be presenting their work and their amazing books will be available for signing and personalized dedications.

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Join us — it’s going to be a truly inspiring evening.

And if you would like to continue to chat, share experiences, and exchange ideas with the illustrators, after the talk CATIA, YAS, ANGIE and CLARE will stay with us for dinner — reserve your place on 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐲 - November 13 at 7.45 - specifying in the notes: Illustrators' evening!

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The Society of Illustrators is located at 128 East 63rd Street between Park & Lex

Cátia Chien is the illustrator of the 2025 Society of Illustrators Original Art Gold Medal winner for Fireworks and a 2020 Gold Medal for Original Art for The Bear and the Moon and a Golden Kite Award for picture book illustration winner, A Boy and a Jaguar, an ALA Notable Book and recipient of the Schneider Family Book Award. She was an assistant editor and a contributor on the ground breaking series Flight comics anthology.Her art has been shown in galleries worldwide including the Beijing National Gallery and the Bologna Children's Book Fair exhibition. She is also the founder of A THOUSAND WORLDS - a curated picture book directory celebrating BIPOC creators. She lives with her family in Los Angeles.

Yas Imamura is a Filipino-American illustrator based in Portland, Oregon, working primarily in gouache and watercolor and she often finds herself drawn to projects that are playful, mysterious, and a little offbeat. She is best known for her work in children’s publishing, including “Love in the Library” by Maggie Tokuda-Hall and Original Art, Best Picture Books 2025 Silver Medal for “Can You Imagine?” by Lisa Tolin. In addition to freelance illustration, she occasionally teaches as an adjunct faculty member at Pacific Northwest College of Art. Yas continues to contribute to the field of picture books and visual storytelling.

Angie Kang makes art in LA. She is the author/illustrator of Our Lake (Kokila) the Dilys Evans Founder’s Medal winner of the Original Art, Best in Picture Books 2025.The illustrator of Navigating Night (Anne Schwartz Books, 2026), written by Julie Leung. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Believer, High Country News, Catapult, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of the Ezra Jack Keats Fellowship at MacDowell, and has also been supported by other organizations such as the Virginia Center of the Creative Arts, Tin House, VONA/Voices, Napa Valley Writers’ Conference, the Sundress Academy of Arts. She was featured in Best Small Fictions 2024, named one of Narrative's “30 below 30” writers, and she was shortlisted for the 2023 Cartoonist Studio Prize.