CHRIS WARE

Born in Omaha, Nebraska, 1967.
BFA, University of Texas at Austin, 1991.
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, 1989.
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1991-1993.

Selected publications.

“The ACME Novelty Library,” issue 16, winter 2005.
“The ACME Novelty Library,” Pantheon Books, fall 2005.
“Walt and Skeezix,” series editor and designer, 2005.
“McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern,” guest editor, issue number 13, 2004.
“Lost Buildings,” collaboration with Ira Glass, published fall 2004.
“The Acme Novelty Datebook,” Montreal: Drawn and Quarterly, 2003.
“Quimby the Mouse,” Seattle: Fantagraphics Books, 2003.
“Jimmy Corrigan, The Smartest Kid on Earth,” New York: Pantheon Books, 2000.
“Jimmy Corrigan, The Smartest Kid on Earth,” excerpted in The New Yorker, June 2000.
“The ACME Novelty Library,” weekly newspaper cartoon strip, 1992- present, Chicago, Illinois.
“The ACME Novelty Library,” issues 1-15, Seattle: Fantagraphics Books, 1993-2001.
“The ACME Novelty Library,” issues 16 - , Chicago: The ACME Novelty Library, 2005 - .
“The Rag Time Ephemeralist,” 1998-present.
Weekly or daily newspaper cartoon strip, 1986-1991, Austin, Texas.

Selected Awards.

"L'Alph Art" award, Angouleme, France, 2003.
Guardian First Book Award, 2001.
American Book Award, 2000.
Eisner and Harvey Comic book awards, 1994-2004.

Selected individual exhibitions.

Adam Baumgold Gallery, New York, October 2005
Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago, Spring 2005.
Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco, Spring 2003.
Presspop Gallery, Kyoto, Japan, Summer 2000.
Fumetto Luzerner Comix-Festival, Luzern, Switzerland, Spring 1999.
Gallerie Anneé, Haarlem, Holland, Summer 1998.

Selected collective exhibitions.

"Masters of Comics," Hammer Museum, November 2005.
“Daniel Clowes and Chris Ware.” Cultureel Centrum Romaanse Poort, Leuven, Belgium, Autumn 1999.
“National Design Triennial.” Cooper-Hewitt Museum, New York, Spring 2000.
“Dan Clowes and Chris Ware.” Roq La Rue Gallery, Seattle, May 2001.
“Summer Reading: The Recreation of Language in 20th Century Art.”
Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center; Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York, Summer 2001.
“Comics, Heroes, and American Visual Culture,” Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska at Lincoln, 2001-2002.
“American Comics,” Angouleme Center for Bande Desinee, 2002.
“Whitney Biennial,” Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, March, 2002.
“The Ganzfeld (unbound),” Adam Baumgold Gallery, New York, March, 2003.
“Word Works,” Adam Baumgold Gallery, New York, June - August, 2003.
“Glasses are Free,” Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago, January, 2004.
"Artwork from McSweeney's Quarterly Concern Number 13," Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco, June 2004.
"Finesse," Catherine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, June 2004.
“Untold Tales,” Adam Baumgold Gallery, New York, June 2004.
“Graphic Novels,” Miami-Dade Community College, Miami, Florida, Fall 2004.
”Marc Trujillo and Chris Ware,” Santa Monica Community College, Fall 2004.
"Artwork from McSweeney's Quarterly Concern Number 13," San Francisco Museum of Cartoon Art, San Francisco, October 2004.
“The Cartoonist’s Eye,” Columbia College, Chicago, September, 2005.

Upcoming:

Solo Exhibition at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, 2006.
Solo Exhibition at the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska at Lincoln, 2007.

Selected Bibliography.

Böckem, Jörg. “Wie Musik auf Papier.” Der Spiegel, October 1999, pp. 84-85.
Eggers, Dave. “After Wham! Pow! Shazam!” New York Times Book Review, November 26th, 2000.
McGrath, Charles. "Not Funnies," New York Times Magazine, July 11th, 2004.
Poniewozik, James. “Right Way, Corrigan.” Time, September 11th, 2000.
Raeburn, Daniel. “Chris Ware.” Laurence King Books, London, 2004.
Sedaris, David. “The Book You Have to Read.” Entertainment Weekly, February 23rd, 2001.
Strauss, Neil. "Creating Literature, One Comic Book at a Time; Chris Ware's Graphic Tales Mine His Own Life and Heart," The New York Times, April 4th, 2001, p. E1.