Ana Juan | |
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 Juan in a Photo by Laura Martínez Lombardía | |
| Born | 1961 Valencia, 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.
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 Geneva 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] among which "Solidarité", after the Charlie Hébdo shooting in Paris. [4]
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. [5]
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), [6] including Retrato en Sepia , Eva Luna , El cuaderno de Maya , Of Love and Shadows. [7] She is one of the very few artists who was allowed by the author himself to illustrate a book by Stephen King, namely The Man in the Black Suit (El hombre del traje negro, Nórdica Libros, 2017). [8]
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