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ANITA KUNZ
OC,
DFA, RCA
Biography
Anita Kunz has recently been appointed an Officer of the
Order of Canada, Canada’s highest civilian Honour by her
Excellency the Right Honourable Michaëlle Jean, Governor
General of Canada.
She has also received an Honorary Doctorate from the Ontario
College of Art and Design University in Toronto, and will
receive a second Honorary Doctorate in Boston in spring of
2015.
Anita has lived in London, New York and Toronto,
contributing to magazines and working for design firms, book
publishers and advertising agencies in Germany, Japan,
Sweden, Norway, Canada, South Africa, Holland, Portugal,
France and England.
She has been published regularly in Time magazine, Rolling
Stone, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, GQ, The New York Times,
Sony Music, Random House Publishing and many others.
Articles about her work have appeared in Graphis and
Novumgebrauchsgrafik magazines (Switzerland), Communication
Arts and Step by Step magazine (USA), Idea, Illustration and
Creation magazines (Japan), Applied Arts (Canada), Nuvo
(Canada) and The Design Journal (Korea).
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 produced cover
art for many magazines including Rolling Stone, The New
Yorker, Sports Illustrated, Time Magazine, Newsweek
Magazine, the Atlantic Monthly and The New York Times
Magazine.
She has also illustrated more than fifty book jacket covers.
Anita frequently teaches workshops and lectures at
universities and institutions internationally including the
Smithsonian and the Corcoran in Washington DC. She has also
lectured at prominent Art Schools such as The Art Center and
Otis, both in Los Angeles, The School of Visual Arts and
Parsons in New York, and in far flung places including
Istanbul and Oslo.
She has also taught summer workshops at the Illustration
Academy in Kansas City, and at the Masters of Art degree
program at Syracuse University.
She has been honored with many prestigious awards and medals
and her critically acclaimed paintings and sculptures have
appeared in galleries world wide, including the Norman
Rockwell Museum in Massachusetts and the Teatrio Cultural
Association in Rome Italy.
Her works are in the permanent collections at the Library of
Congress, the Canadian Archives in Ottawa, the Musée
Militaire de France in Paris, 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.
In 1987 she showed a collection of her works at Canada House
in Trafalgar Square London. In 1997 she had a one woman show
at the Foreign Press office in New York City, in 1998 she
had a solo show at the Creation Gallery in Tokyo, and the
Society of Illustrators Museum of American Illustration
mounted a mid-career retrospective of her work in the fall
of 2000.
She has also had solo shows at the Govinda Gallery in
Washington DC and more recently at the Art Institute of
Boston.
In the fall of 2003 she was the first woman and the first
Canadian to have a solo show at the Library of Congress in
Washington DC.
In 2000 she was invited to speak as one of The New Yorker
magazine cover artists at the annual New Yorker Festival in
New York and she was invited to speak at ideaCity on three
occasions, a think tank of luminaries from the fields of
medicine, politics, science and the arts in Toronto.
In spring of 2007 Anita gave a presentation about her New
Yorker covers at the TED conference in Monterey California.
From 2000 to 2003 she served on the Board of Directors of
the Illustration conference. In 2004 she is served as chair
for the Society of Illustrators Museum of American
Illustration annual exhibit and she has has also served as
chair of the Museum Committee there.
She has also made a number of Canadian television and radio
appearances.
In 1997 she received the Les Usherwood Lifetime Achievement
Award from the Advertising and Design Club of Canada.
In 2009 she was one of 100 artists asked by Google to
contribute an image for Google Chrome along with Jeff Koons,
Jenny Holzer, Dale Chihuly and Vivienne Westwood. That same
year she was part of a collection of work curated by Lady
Gaga for Polaroid, shown at the Phillips de Pury Gallery in
New York.
In 2012 she received the Queen’s Diamond Jublee medal of
Honour.
Anita has been named one of the fifty most influential women
in Canada by the National Post newspaper.
Curriculum Vitae
BORN 1956 Toronto Canada
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)
S O L O E X H I B I T I O N S
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, Cincinnati
2001 The Art Academy of Cincinnati, 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
G R O U P E X H I B I T I O N S
2016 "Lust and Crime- Nero the Myth", Stadtmuseum, Trier,
Germany
2015 "Why we Print about Love", group show, Ceres Gallery,
New York City
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 Advoccacy: 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,
Philiips 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 Universitly 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,
travelling 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, Hannover 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 sho
1987 SMU Art Gallery, North Dartmouth Massachusetts, “Public
I's” show
B I B L I O G R A P H Y
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 Porfolios
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, Zurich September
A C K N OWL E D G E M E N T S
Hamilton King Award, Museum of American Illustration
Inducted into the Royal Canadian Academy of the Arts, 2007
Voted 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
Awards from American Illustration new York, 1981-present
Annual awards from CA annuals, 1984-present
Annual awards from Society of Illustration annuals,
1985-2010
Honorary Doctorate from the Ontario College of Art and
Design University, 2010
Appointed as an Office of the Order of Canada, Canada's
highest civilian honor, 2010
Recipient of the Queen's Diamond Jubilee medal of Honour,
2012
Honorary Doctorate from Massachusetts College of Art and
Design, 2015
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