Amy Hwang

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Amy Hwang
Born
Arlington, Texas
Alma mater Barnard College
Occupationcartoonist
Known for The New Yorker cartoons
Website https://www.amyhwang.com/

Amy Hwang is a cartoonist for The New Yorker [1] [2] and is probably the first Asian woman to have drawn cartoons openly for the magazine. [3]

Hwang was born in Arlington, Texas. [3] She graduated from Barnard College in 2000 with a degree in architecture. [4] As a first-year at Barnard, Hwang started drawing cartoons for the Columbia Daily Spectator in 1997. [4] [5] After graduating, she worked at an architecture firm, which she later left so that she could become a cartoonist full-time. [4] [5] She has worked as a cartoonist with The New Yorker since 2010. [1] [4] [5] Hwang won National Cartoonists Society's 2019 Silver Reuben Award for gag cartoons. [5] She also curated an art exhibit with the cartoonist Jeremy Nguyen called "Asian Babies: Works from Asian 'New Yorker' Cartoonists". [6] The exhibit ran from October 4, 2019, to January 12, 2020, at Pearl River Mart, where Hwang held an artist-in-residence position. [6] [7] The exhibit featured the works of ten cartoonists of Asian descent, including Monroe Leung, the first Asian American cartoonist to be published in The New Yorker. [6] In 2021, Hwang spoke on a virtual New Yorker Festival panel titled "Some Very Funny Ladies" alongside Liza Donnelly, Roz Chast and Liana Finck. [8] Hwang is mentioned in Liza Donnelly's 2022 book, Very Funny Ladies: The New Yorker’s Women Cartoonists. [3]

Hwang's cartoon style predominantly consists of clean lines, soft gray washes, with pen and ink on paper. [3]

Resources

  1. 1 2 "Amy Hwang". The New Yorker. Retrieved 2022-03-31.
  2. ↑ "The Exciting New Wave of New Yorker Cartoonists". Pastm. 2018-03-01. Retrieved 2022-03-31.
  3. 1 2 3 4 Donnelly, Liza (2022). Very Funny Ladies The New Yorker's Women Cartoonists. Prometheus. pp. 190–192. ISBN   978-1-63388-687-2. OCLC   1296430945.
  4. 1 2 3 4 "5 Questions With … An Award-Winning Cartoonist". Barnard College. Retrieved 2022-03-31.
  5. 1 2 3 4 "National Cartoonists Society". National Cartoonists. Retrieved 2022-03-31.
  6. 1 2 3 "Asian Babies: Works from Asian 'New Yorker' Cartoonists". Asian American Arts Alliance. Retrieved 2022-03-31.
  7. ↑ "Artist-in-Residence Amy Hwang: How Passion and Pragmatism Can Go Hand in Hand". Pearl River Mart. Retrieved 2022-03-31.
  8. ↑ "Emma Allen is redefining what a New Yorker cartoon can be". The Washington Post. ISSN   0190-8286 . Retrieved 2022-03-31.
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