About
Hailing from Vietnam, Alice Cao is an illustrator, BA(Hons) Illustration graduate of the Cambridge School of Art and holds an MA in Visual Communication from Birmingham City University. She enjoys the fantastical, the historical, and everything in-between. Currently based in the charming little medieval town of Shrewsbury, UK with her partner and the looming threat of drowning in houseplants and collectible figurines (‘tis a most serious predicament), Alice specialises in traditional hand-drawn illustration. Dip pens are her weapons and ink is her poison. She would take a stab at most things, though what comes out tends to take a turn for the unsettling and strange. When not working, she can be found indulging in her seventeen thousand hobbies.
Clients
Harper Collins | Tor | UCLan Publishing | Illumicrate | Fairyloot | Owlcrate | Page & Wick | Arcane Society/Mystic Box | Studio AKA - BBC Studio | Books Illustrated | RCAGroup - Sony Music UK | The Bookish Box | Fiddler’s Green Magazine | The Covent Gardener Magazine | The Mayfarer Magazine | The City Courant Magazine | Headway Cambridgeshire
Exhibitions + Awards
Las Noches — Group Show | Haven Gallery, New York, US | 2025
Inspired To Innovate — AOI Members Exhibition | Hoxton Arches, London, UK | 2019
Cluster Illustration Art Fair 2019 | Old Truman Brewery, London, UK | 2019
New Designers 2019 | The Business Design Centre, London, UK | 2019
Unfold — Cambridge School of Art Degree Show | Ruskin Gallery, Cambridge, UK | 2019
The Big Pitch | Finalist | 2019
Sustainability Art Prize | Ruskin Gallery, Cambridge, UK | Shortlisted | 2018
Pop-Up Creators Showcase | Over-Seas House, Mayfair, London, UK | 2018
London Book Fair | London, UK | 2018