Anita Kunz
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About the Artist
Toronto-based artist Anita Kunz is internationally known for her illustration work, which has been seen in, and on the cover of, Time Magazine, Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, GQ, The New York Times, Sony Music, Random House Publishing and many others. From 1988 to 1990, she was one of two artists chosen by Rolling Stone magazine to produce a monthly illustrated History of Rock ‘n Roll end paper.
She has exhibited in several museums, with many of her pieces included in the permanent collections at Library of Congress, the Canadian Archives in Ottawa, the McCord Museum in Montreal, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Rome, and a number of her Time Magazine cover paintings are in the permanent collection at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington DC.
She has been appointed Officer of the Order of Canada, Canada’s highest civilian honor, and recently received the Queen’s Jubilee Medal of Honor. She will be inducted in the Museum of American Illustration Hall of Fame in New York in 2017.
In addition to producing her own art, Kunz frequently teaches workshops and lectures at universities and institutions internationally, including the Smithsonian and the Corcoran in Washington DC. Her summer workshops have been conducted at the Illustration Academy in Sarasota Florida, and at the Masters of Art degree program at Syracuse University
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About the Artist
Toronto-based artist Anita Kunz is internationally known for her illustration work, which has been seen in, and on the cover of, Time Magazine, Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, GQ, The New York Times, Sony Music, Random House Publishing and many others. From 1988 to 1990, she was one of two artists chosen by Rolling Stone magazine to produce a monthly illustrated History of Rock ‘n Roll end paper.
She has exhibited in several museums, with many of her pieces included in the permanent collections at Library of Congress, the Canadian Archives in Ottawa, the McCord Museum in Montreal, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Rome, and a number of her Time Magazine cover paintings are in the permanent collection at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington DC.
She has been appointed Officer of the Order of Canada, Canada’s highest civilian honor, and recently received the Queen’s Jubilee Medal of Honor. She will be inducted in the Museum of American Illustration Hall of Fame in New York in 2017.
In addition to producing her own art, Kunz frequently teaches workshops and lectures at universities and institutions internationally, including the Smithsonian and the Corcoran in Washington DC. Her summer workshops have been conducted at the Illustration Academy in Sarasota Florida, and at the Masters of Art degree program at Syracuse University
Curriculum Vitae
Education
~AOCA degree received from the Ontario College of Art, Toronto (1978)
~DFA Honorary doctorate received from The Ontario College of Art and Design (2010)
~DFA Honorary doctorate from Massachusetts College of Art and Design (2015)
Acknowledgements
Hamilton King Award, Museum of American Illustration, New York
Inducted into the Royal Canadian Academy of the Arts, 2007
Named one of the 50 most influential women in Canada by the National Post newspaper
Lifetime Achievement award from the Advertising and Design club of Canada
Honorary Doctorate from the Ontario College of Art and Design University, 2010
Over twenty covers commissioned by The New Yorker Magazine
Honorary Doctorate from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design, 2015
Appointed Office of the Order of Canada, Canada’s highest civilian honor, 2010
Recipient of the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee medal of Honour, 2012
Lifetime Achievement award, Applied Arts Magazine, Toronto 2016
Induction into the Hall of Fame, Museum of American Illustration, New York 2017
Solo Exhibitions
2016 Cube Gallery, Ottawa Canada, ICONOCLAST show
2015 President’s Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston. “Serious Wit”
2014 Dorothy Circus Gallery, Rome
Homer Watson gallery and Museum, Kitchener Ontario
Ghostprint Gallery, Richmond Virginia
2012 Gallery House, Toronto
2008 Laguna College of Art and Design, California, “Satirical Conclusions”
2007 Art Institute of Boston, USA
2003 Swann Gallery, Library of Congress, Washington DC
2001 The Art Academy of Cincinnati
2001 Art Institute of Southern California Laguna Beach
Art Academy of Cincinnati, Ohio
2000 Museum of American Illustration, New York, mid-career retrospective
1997 Creation Gallery, Tokyo Japan
1996 University of the Arts, Philadelphia
1995 Govinda Gallery, Washington DC
1994 Foreign Press Center, New York
1988 Midway Forum Gallery, Toronto “Devils in Disguise”
1983 Idee Gallery, Toronto
Group Exhibitions
2016 “Lust and Crime- Nero the Myth”, Stadtmuseum, Trier, Germany
The Museum of the Street group show, Toronto
TRIO show, Papermill Gallery, Toronto
LA Art Show, “Littletopia” curated by Gregario Escalante
The Norman Rockwell Museum, Rockwell and Realism in an Abstract World, Massachusetts
“Women’s rights are Human rights”, MassArt College of Art and Design, Boston
“Women’s rights are Human rights”, Cultural Center, San Luis Potosi, Mexico
“Print show”. Cube Gallery, Ottawa
Zenith Gallery Washington DC, Humour show
2015 “What we Print about when we Print about Love”, group show, Ceres Gallery, New York City Microvisions, Museum of American Illustration, New York City
Charlotte Hale Gallery, Toronto, Erotica art show
The American Flag in Contemporary Art, Zenith Gallery, Washington DC
2014 Royal Canadian Academy annual show, “Hibernus” , Aird Gallery, Toronto
Charlotte Hale Gallery Toronto, Holiday show
Art Miami Basel, Aqua Art Fair, with Ghostprint Gallery
CFA Gallery at the Toronto International Art Fair
Corey Helford Gallery/CIRCA, “Giants among us” Show, Los Angeles
Gallery House Toronto, group show “Evergrande”
Group show “Mass” Portraits of Power, Gallery M, Toronto
Cat show, group show (with Tracey Emin and Shepherd Fairey and others) Los Angeles
Haiyan hurricane art benefit, Savannah Georgia
Feral Creatures, group show, San Francisco, CA
Wolfsonian Museum, Miami, Florida, poster show
Havana Cuba, Vitrina de Valonia Museum, group show
Group show “Silence” Pelanda Contemporary Museum, Rome Italy
Gallery House Toronto, summer group show
MyMicroGallery, Milan, Italy, Liliput show
Graphic Advocacy show, New York City
2013 Last Rites gallery New York City…”Flood 44” group show
“Good Work” show, Arts Center Gallery, Nazareth College, Rochester
“Graphic Advocacy: International Posters for the Digital Age” show, Stephen Paine Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston
Pratt Institute, New York, “Graphic Advocacy”
“Graphic Advocacy: show, Universidad Metropolitana Azcapotzalco, Mexico City
Group show, Gallery House, Toronto
2012 Gallery House Toronto, “Miles to go before I sleep” show
Polar Lines, Allen Library, University of Washington, Seattle
Corey Helfand Gallery, “Motion” show, Los Angeles
Peninsula Arts, University of Plymouth, Plymouth, UK
Galleria l’Affiche, Milano Italy
Gallery Martel, Paris, Group show
Factory Art, Group Exhibition, Berlin
2011 Richard Goodhall Gallery, Manchester UK
Petits Papier Gallery, Paris
Polaroid 50 50 50 show, special project with Lady Gaga, Philips de Pury & Co., New York
Corey Helfand Gallery, “In the Nursery” show, Los Angeles
Neubacher Shor Gallery, “Highly Desirables”, Toronto
2010 American Illustration Timeline show, Point Ephemere, Paris
American Illustration Timeline show, Geneva
The Naughty show, 2 person show, Gallery one800, Toronto
“Picture Mechanics” group show, LaLuz de Jesus gallery, LA
Gallery Nucleus, Los Angeles, group show
Cal State University, Carson California, group show
Museum of American Illustration group show
Burger Art Gallery, group show, Union New Jersey
2009 Four Walls Gallery, Dallas Texas, group show
Spazio Dell Arte gallery, Toronto
Villa Bernasconi Museum. Geneva, “AI25 Timeline” show
Museum of American Illustration Group show
2008 Delavan Gallery, Syracuse, “The Last Picture Show”
The Veil: Visible and Invisible Spaces, de Saisset Museum, Santa Clara
Songjiang Museum, Shanghai, China, “Eco X” show
Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art, “Hansel and Gretel” show
Teatrio, Venice Italy, Female artists show
Dairy Art Center, Boulder Colorado “The Veil. Visible and Invisible Spaces” show
The Wolfsonian Museum, Miami “Thoughts on Democracy” show
Art Basel Miami, “Thoughts on Democracy” show
Williamson Gallery, Los Angeles, “American Illustration 25 Timeline” show
2007 Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai, China, “Eco X” Show
Museum of American Illustration New York, ‘Artists against the War’
GalleryMet, New York, “Hansel and Gretel” show
Selby Gallery, Sarasota, Florida
Quirk Gallery, Richmond Virginia, ‘Tables to Walls’ show
Devos Gallery, Michigan “Another Voice” show
Female Artists show, Naples, Italy
Storyopolis Gallery Los Angeles, two person show
2006 Associazione Culturale Teatrio, Venice Italy
Cube Gallery Ottawa Canada
Bountiful Davis Art Center, Bountiful Utah
Storyopolis Gallery, Los Angeles
2005 The Norman Rockwell Museum, Stockbridge Massachusetts “The Art of the New Yorker”
The Maritime Gallery, Mystic Connecticut “Illustrating the sea”
New Hampshire Institute of Art, NH
Heuswater Art Center, Sloane College of Fine Art, Peoria Illinois
Memphis College of Art “Another Voice” show
Galleria Communale d’Arte Contemporanea Al Montirone, Albano Terme Italy
2004 Van Brunt Gallery New York
Exploding Head Gallery, Sacramento
The Norman Rockwell Museum, “Women in Illustration: contemporary visions and voices”
2003 Center Galleries, College for Creative studies, “Between the lines” show
Zeitgeist Gallery, Nashville Tennessee
2001 Selby Gallery, Sarasota Florida
Northridge Galleries, California State University at Northridge
2000 Galleria Communale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Rome, “America Illustrata” Show
The Norman Rockwell Museum, Stockbridge Massachusetts “Eye on America” Show
Rafaella Guidobono Advertainment Inc, Milan Italy. “Booked” show
Galleria Civica d’Arte Contemporanea, Padova Italy, traveling show also in Bolzano,
Reggio Calabria, and Cagliari, Italy
The Art Directors Club Gallery, New York
Il Salone della Cassa di Risparmio, Venice Italy
Wilhelm-Bush Museum, Hanover Germany, “Recent Art of the New Yorker” show
1999 The Norman Rockwell Museum, Massachusetts, “Eye on America” show
1996 The Painted City gallery, Toronto Leo Kamen gallery, Toronto Storyopolis, Los Angeles
1995 Leo Kamen Gallery, Toronto
1993 San Jose State University, USA “the Art of Politics” show
1992 Bunkamura Gallery, Tokyo Japan Itoya Gallery, Ginza Japan
1991 Lustrare Gallery, New York Illustration
Gallery New York, “Erotica show”
Barney’s store, NYC, window show
1990 Idee gallery Toronto, group show
1989 Canada House Gallery, Trafalgar Square, London, 2 person show
Idee gallery Toronto, group show
The Illustration gallery, New York City
1988 Idee Gallery, Working Women show
Berlingesichtsmuseum, Berlin, group show
1987 SMU Art Gallery, North Dartmouth Massachusetts, “Public I’s” show
Bibliography
2014 200 Best Illustrators, Luerzers Publishing
Illustration Now, Taschen books
2012 Blown Covers, Abrams books
2010 Taschen Books, Portraits Now
Japanese Illustration, issue 186, Tokyo
2009 The world’s best Illustrators, Luerzers Archive Publishing
2008 Taschen Books, Illustration Now
2007 An Anthropomorphic ABC, Canada
2005 3x3 Magazine, New York
2002 Nuvo Magazine, Art and Evolution
1995 The Business of Illustration, New York
1993 Creation Magazine, number 17, Tokyo
1992 Novumgebrauchsgrafik, Switzerland, October 10
1999 Illustration Magazine Japan, Tokyo March issue
1996 Illustration America: 25 Outstanding Portfolios
1990 IDEA Magazine number 220, Tokyo
1989 Step by Step magazine, USA October
Applied Arts Quarterly, Canada volume 3
Design Journal Korea, April issue
1986 IDEA Magazine, number 195, Tokyo
1984 Communication Arts Magazine, September, USA
1983 Graphis Magazine, September, Zurich
Permanent Collections
Library of Congress, Washington
Canadian Archives, Ottawa
McCord Museum, Montreal
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Rome
The National Portrait Gallery, Washington
Musée militaire en France, Paris
~AOCA degree received from the Ontario College of Art, Toronto (1978)
~DFA Honorary doctorate received from The Ontario College of Art and Design (2010)
~DFA Honorary doctorate from Massachusetts College of Art and Design (2015)
Acknowledgements
Hamilton King Award, Museum of American Illustration, New York
Inducted into the Royal Canadian Academy of the Arts, 2007
Named one of the 50 most influential women in Canada by the National Post newspaper
Lifetime Achievement award from the Advertising and Design club of Canada
Honorary Doctorate from the Ontario College of Art and Design University, 2010
Over twenty covers commissioned by The New Yorker Magazine
Honorary Doctorate from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design, 2015
Appointed Office of the Order of Canada, Canada’s highest civilian honor, 2010
Recipient of the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee medal of Honour, 2012
Lifetime Achievement award, Applied Arts Magazine, Toronto 2016
Induction into the Hall of Fame, Museum of American Illustration, New York 2017
Solo Exhibitions
2016 Cube Gallery, Ottawa Canada, ICONOCLAST show
2015 President’s Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston. “Serious Wit”
2014 Dorothy Circus Gallery, Rome
Homer Watson gallery and Museum, Kitchener Ontario
Ghostprint Gallery, Richmond Virginia
2012 Gallery House, Toronto
2008 Laguna College of Art and Design, California, “Satirical Conclusions”
2007 Art Institute of Boston, USA
2003 Swann Gallery, Library of Congress, Washington DC
2001 The Art Academy of Cincinnati
2001 Art Institute of Southern California Laguna Beach
Art Academy of Cincinnati, Ohio
2000 Museum of American Illustration, New York, mid-career retrospective
1997 Creation Gallery, Tokyo Japan
1996 University of the Arts, Philadelphia
1995 Govinda Gallery, Washington DC
1994 Foreign Press Center, New York
1988 Midway Forum Gallery, Toronto “Devils in Disguise”
1983 Idee Gallery, Toronto
Group Exhibitions
2016 “Lust and Crime- Nero the Myth”, Stadtmuseum, Trier, Germany
The Museum of the Street group show, Toronto
TRIO show, Papermill Gallery, Toronto
LA Art Show, “Littletopia” curated by Gregario Escalante
The Norman Rockwell Museum, Rockwell and Realism in an Abstract World, Massachusetts
“Women’s rights are Human rights”, MassArt College of Art and Design, Boston
“Women’s rights are Human rights”, Cultural Center, San Luis Potosi, Mexico
“Print show”. Cube Gallery, Ottawa
Zenith Gallery Washington DC, Humour show
2015 “What we Print about when we Print about Love”, group show, Ceres Gallery, New York City Microvisions, Museum of American Illustration, New York City
Charlotte Hale Gallery, Toronto, Erotica art show
The American Flag in Contemporary Art, Zenith Gallery, Washington DC
2014 Royal Canadian Academy annual show, “Hibernus” , Aird Gallery, Toronto
Charlotte Hale Gallery Toronto, Holiday show
Art Miami Basel, Aqua Art Fair, with Ghostprint Gallery
CFA Gallery at the Toronto International Art Fair
Corey Helford Gallery/CIRCA, “Giants among us” Show, Los Angeles
Gallery House Toronto, group show “Evergrande”
Group show “Mass” Portraits of Power, Gallery M, Toronto
Cat show, group show (with Tracey Emin and Shepherd Fairey and others) Los Angeles
Haiyan hurricane art benefit, Savannah Georgia
Feral Creatures, group show, San Francisco, CA
Wolfsonian Museum, Miami, Florida, poster show
Havana Cuba, Vitrina de Valonia Museum, group show
Group show “Silence” Pelanda Contemporary Museum, Rome Italy
Gallery House Toronto, summer group show
MyMicroGallery, Milan, Italy, Liliput show
Graphic Advocacy show, New York City
2013 Last Rites gallery New York City…”Flood 44” group show
“Good Work” show, Arts Center Gallery, Nazareth College, Rochester
“Graphic Advocacy: International Posters for the Digital Age” show, Stephen Paine Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston
Pratt Institute, New York, “Graphic Advocacy”
“Graphic Advocacy: show, Universidad Metropolitana Azcapotzalco, Mexico City
Group show, Gallery House, Toronto
2012 Gallery House Toronto, “Miles to go before I sleep” show
Polar Lines, Allen Library, University of Washington, Seattle
Corey Helfand Gallery, “Motion” show, Los Angeles
Peninsula Arts, University of Plymouth, Plymouth, UK
Galleria l’Affiche, Milano Italy
Gallery Martel, Paris, Group show
Factory Art, Group Exhibition, Berlin
2011 Richard Goodhall Gallery, Manchester UK
Petits Papier Gallery, Paris
Polaroid 50 50 50 show, special project with Lady Gaga, Philips de Pury & Co., New York
Corey Helfand Gallery, “In the Nursery” show, Los Angeles
Neubacher Shor Gallery, “Highly Desirables”, Toronto
2010 American Illustration Timeline show, Point Ephemere, Paris
American Illustration Timeline show, Geneva
The Naughty show, 2 person show, Gallery one800, Toronto
“Picture Mechanics” group show, LaLuz de Jesus gallery, LA
Gallery Nucleus, Los Angeles, group show
Cal State University, Carson California, group show
Museum of American Illustration group show
Burger Art Gallery, group show, Union New Jersey
2009 Four Walls Gallery, Dallas Texas, group show
Spazio Dell Arte gallery, Toronto
Villa Bernasconi Museum. Geneva, “AI25 Timeline” show
Museum of American Illustration Group show
2008 Delavan Gallery, Syracuse, “The Last Picture Show”
The Veil: Visible and Invisible Spaces, de Saisset Museum, Santa Clara
Songjiang Museum, Shanghai, China, “Eco X” show
Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art, “Hansel and Gretel” show
Teatrio, Venice Italy, Female artists show
Dairy Art Center, Boulder Colorado “The Veil. Visible and Invisible Spaces” show
The Wolfsonian Museum, Miami “Thoughts on Democracy” show
Art Basel Miami, “Thoughts on Democracy” show
Williamson Gallery, Los Angeles, “American Illustration 25 Timeline” show
2007 Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai, China, “Eco X” Show
Museum of American Illustration New York, ‘Artists against the War’
GalleryMet, New York, “Hansel and Gretel” show
Selby Gallery, Sarasota, Florida
Quirk Gallery, Richmond Virginia, ‘Tables to Walls’ show
Devos Gallery, Michigan “Another Voice” show
Female Artists show, Naples, Italy
Storyopolis Gallery Los Angeles, two person show
2006 Associazione Culturale Teatrio, Venice Italy
Cube Gallery Ottawa Canada
Bountiful Davis Art Center, Bountiful Utah
Storyopolis Gallery, Los Angeles
2005 The Norman Rockwell Museum, Stockbridge Massachusetts “The Art of the New Yorker”
The Maritime Gallery, Mystic Connecticut “Illustrating the sea”
New Hampshire Institute of Art, NH
Heuswater Art Center, Sloane College of Fine Art, Peoria Illinois
Memphis College of Art “Another Voice” show
Galleria Communale d’Arte Contemporanea Al Montirone, Albano Terme Italy
2004 Van Brunt Gallery New York
Exploding Head Gallery, Sacramento
The Norman Rockwell Museum, “Women in Illustration: contemporary visions and voices”
2003 Center Galleries, College for Creative studies, “Between the lines” show
Zeitgeist Gallery, Nashville Tennessee
2001 Selby Gallery, Sarasota Florida
Northridge Galleries, California State University at Northridge
2000 Galleria Communale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Rome, “America Illustrata” Show
The Norman Rockwell Museum, Stockbridge Massachusetts “Eye on America” Show
Rafaella Guidobono Advertainment Inc, Milan Italy. “Booked” show
Galleria Civica d’Arte Contemporanea, Padova Italy, traveling show also in Bolzano,
Reggio Calabria, and Cagliari, Italy
The Art Directors Club Gallery, New York
Il Salone della Cassa di Risparmio, Venice Italy
Wilhelm-Bush Museum, Hanover Germany, “Recent Art of the New Yorker” show
1999 The Norman Rockwell Museum, Massachusetts, “Eye on America” show
1996 The Painted City gallery, Toronto Leo Kamen gallery, Toronto Storyopolis, Los Angeles
1995 Leo Kamen Gallery, Toronto
1993 San Jose State University, USA “the Art of Politics” show
1992 Bunkamura Gallery, Tokyo Japan Itoya Gallery, Ginza Japan
1991 Lustrare Gallery, New York Illustration
Gallery New York, “Erotica show”
Barney’s store, NYC, window show
1990 Idee gallery Toronto, group show
1989 Canada House Gallery, Trafalgar Square, London, 2 person show
Idee gallery Toronto, group show
The Illustration gallery, New York City
1988 Idee Gallery, Working Women show
Berlingesichtsmuseum, Berlin, group show
1987 SMU Art Gallery, North Dartmouth Massachusetts, “Public I’s” show
Bibliography
2014 200 Best Illustrators, Luerzers Publishing
Illustration Now, Taschen books
2012 Blown Covers, Abrams books
2010 Taschen Books, Portraits Now
Japanese Illustration, issue 186, Tokyo
2009 The world’s best Illustrators, Luerzers Archive Publishing
2008 Taschen Books, Illustration Now
2007 An Anthropomorphic ABC, Canada
2005 3x3 Magazine, New York
2002 Nuvo Magazine, Art and Evolution
1995 The Business of Illustration, New York
1993 Creation Magazine, number 17, Tokyo
1992 Novumgebrauchsgrafik, Switzerland, October 10
1999 Illustration Magazine Japan, Tokyo March issue
1996 Illustration America: 25 Outstanding Portfolios
1990 IDEA Magazine number 220, Tokyo
1989 Step by Step magazine, USA October
Applied Arts Quarterly, Canada volume 3
Design Journal Korea, April issue
1986 IDEA Magazine, number 195, Tokyo
1984 Communication Arts Magazine, September, USA
1983 Graphis Magazine, September, Zurich
Permanent Collections
Library of Congress, Washington
Canadian Archives, Ottawa
McCord Museum, Montreal
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Rome
The National Portrait Gallery, Washington
Musée militaire en France, Paris
