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May 15, 2024 · Ware has had major exhibitions at The Art Institute of Chicago (2014-15); Sheldon Museum of Art (2007); MCA Chicago (2006); Jewish Museum, New York (2006); and the Whitney Biennial (2002), among others. Chris Ware lives and works in Oak Park, IL, USA.
Ware's art reflects early 20th-century American styles of cartooning and graphic design, shifting through formats from traditional comic panels to faux advertisements and cut-out toys.
One of the most innovative and talented graphic artists of his generation, Chris Ware (b.1967) is acclaimed for presenting narrative illustration in a form and style vastly different from that of his contemporaries. Ware’s creative evolution is borne from the seemingly mundane—a childhood in Nebraska with cartoonists in his family ...
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Jun 27, 2022 · By Françoise Mouly. Art by Chris Ware. June 27, 2022. “Am I laughably naïve to think we might all somehow grow up and continue this relatively youngish two-hundred-and-forty-six-year-old...
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Oct 10, 2022 · Cover Story. Chris Ware’s “Lockdown” The artist discusses using his daily life in his drawings, and his daughter’s experience with school-shooting drills. By Françoise Mouly. Art by Chris...
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Aug 14, 2019 · Chris Ware is a Chicago-based artist and writer who has contributed over two dozen cover images to the New Yorker. Ware’s graphic novels include Building Stories, which was chosen as a Top Ten Fiction Book by the New York Times in 2012, and Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth, the 2000 Guardian Prize winner.
Chris Ware. , The Art of Comics No. 2. Interviewed by Jeet Heer. Issue 210, Fall 2014. Self-portrait by Chris Ware. When you first approach Chris Ware’s house in Oak Park, Illinois, on the western edge of Chicago, it seems like the essence of tree-lined Midwestern normality. Inside, though, it’s a mini-museum, or perhaps a curiosity shop.