About

Gitta Jocson is a Filipino illustrator and graphic designer. Born in the Philippines, raised in Singapore, and lived in the Czech Republic before coming to New York City in 2015. Since a young age, Gitta has had a love for fictional worlds. She has an interest in books, movies, comics, video games, and tabletop games. Though she has been drawing and doodling her whole life, she became serious about art in high school, taking up more intensive visual arts classes.

In 2019, she graduated with honors from Parsons The New School for Design with a B.F.A. in Illustration. In May 2022, she graduated from New York Institute of Technology with an M.F.A. in Graphic Design. She was awarded the Dean’s Award for Excellence and the Digital Art and Design Chair’s Award.

Gitta has worked as a freelance artist, creating artwork for fantasy character portraits. In 2021, she started developing book covers for Balancing Planet Pictures, creating for genres such as paranormal romance and young adult fantasy. She worked graphic design internships with companies such as Tuleste, Galerie Richard, and Bold Design. In these internships, she has produced graphic design work for social media, web marketing, and e-commerce. She has also won a logo design contest for Smoke Rise Swim Team, and collaborated on a logo for Par Media 20/20 LLC.

Gitta has displayed and sold artwork at Greenpoint Gallery in Brooklyn. She has also worked in curation and creative direction for the Parsons B.F.A. Illustration Exhibition in 2019, and for solo show “Hug Me Just Watch The Hand” in
OCD Chocolate.

Gitta currently resides in Manhattan, where she can be found playing video games, cooking, and dreaming of different worlds.