Rioka Hayama is an NYC based sci-art illustrator & animator from Tokyo. Past clients include:

The Washington Post, Science AAAS and sister publications (Translational Medicine and Immunology), Nature Aging, Steinberg Lab / Columbia University, Institute for Immunity, Transplantation and Infection / Stanford University, United Nations Ocean Conference, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, Visualizing Palestine, International Union for the Conservation of Nature, University of California San Francisco Health and Human Rights Initiative / Refugee and Asylum-seeker Health Initiative, University of Rochester Medicine Neurosurgery

Rio specializes in conceptual illustration and animation. Drawing from training in medical visualization, they illuminate complex topics across human and planetary health with a research-intensive and accessible touch for editorial, journal, and publishing clients.