Ana Juan

Ana Juan
Born 1961
Valencia, Spain
Residence Madrid, Spain
Nationality Spanish
Occupation Artist, painter, illustrator, sculptor
Website http://anajuan.net/

Ana Juan (born 1961 in Valencia, Spain) is a Spanish artist, illustrator and painter.

Life and career

After graduating in Fine Arts from Universidad Politécnica in Valencia (1982), she moved to Madrid at the height of the movida madrileña and in the early 1980s she collaborated with magazines such as La Luna and Madriz (where "for the first seven months of the magazine's life, [she] was the only regular female artist" and for which "she authored seventeen comic book works" and illustrated many scripts for other artists).[1]

In 1991 she temporarily moved to Paris and exhibited in Geneve and New York; in 1994 she received a fellowship by the Japanese publishing house Kodansha and lived in Japan for three months.[2]

Back in Madrid, in 1995 she started contributing to The New Yorker, for which she has designed more than 20 covers over the years.[3]

In 1998 and 1999 she was awarded the Gold Medal (category: Illustration) by the Society of Newspaper Design and on September 24, 2010 she was awarded the “Premio Nacional de Ilustración” by the Spanish Ministry of Culture.[4]

She currently creates her own books (texts and illustrations), exhibits her work all over the world (Spain, Mexico, Japan, Italy…) and contributes to many Spanish and international magazines. She has also illustrated many Isabel Allende's book covers for Plaza e Janés (Penguin Random House),[5] among which: Retrato en Sepia, Eva Luna, El cuaderno de Maya, De amor y de sombra.[6]

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

Group exhibitions

Prizes and awards

Books

References

  1. Perez-Sanchez, Gema, Queer Transitions in Contemporary Spanish Culture: From Franco to LA MOVIDA, State University of New York Press (June 5, 2008), p.164, ISBN 978-0791471746
  2. "La ilustradora española Ana Juan inaugura exposiciones en Querétaro". Secretaría de educación pública de México. Retrieved March 5, 2015.
  3. "Contributors: Ana Juan". The New Yorker. Retrieved March 5, 2015.
  4. "Ana Juan, Premio Nacional de Ilustración 2010" (PDF). Ministerio de Cultura. September 24, 2010. Retrieved March 4, 2015.
  5. "Isabel Allende Collection". Retrieved March 5, 2015.
  6. "Ana Juan". Portadas Libros. Retrieved March 5, 2015.
  7. "Libros mejor editados en la CV". Retrieved March 4, 2015.
  8. "Ezra Jack Keats Book Award Winners 1986–2014". The Ezra Jack Keats Foundation. Retrieved March 5, 2015.
  9. "Ana Juan, Premio Nacional de Ilustración 2010" (PDF). Ministerio de Cultura. September 24, 2010. Retrieved March 4, 2015.
  10. "XVII Acto de entrega 'Medalla de Sant Carles'". Universitat Politècnica de València. Retrieved March 4, 2015.

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