Anita Kunz

Anita E. Kunz (born 1956) is a Canadian-born artist and illustrator.

Kuntz 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. Her clients include "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 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 Institution and the Corcoran College of Art and Design in Washington DC. Her summer workshops are conducted at the Illustration Academy in Sarasota, Florida, 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 Musèe 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. 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 in 2001 and again in 2004, she was invited to speak at ideaCity, a think tank of luminaries from the fields of medicine, politics, science and the arts in Toronto. From 2000 to 2003 she served on the Board of Directors of the Illustration conference. In 2004 she served as chair for the Society of Illustrators Museum of American Illustration annual exhibit and she is currently serving as chair of the Museum Committee there. In 1997 she received the Les Usherwood Lifetime Achievement Award from the Advertising and Design Club of Canada. Anita was recently named one of the fifty most influential women in Canada by the "National Post" newspaper. She is currently preparing for a one woman show to be held in Turin, Italy in 2008.

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).

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