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Stephen Tunney (born December 1959 in Bronx, New York) is an American artist who is a novelist, a painter and a musician.

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Education

Stephen Tunney graduated from Parsons School of Design with a BFA in 1982. He received an MFA from the City College of New York in 1991.

Writer

Stephen Tunney's last novel One Hundred Percent Lunar Boy, [1] was published by the American publisher MacAdam/Cage [2] in 2010. It received the Barnes and Noble "Discover Great New Writers Series" for 2010–2011. [3] [4] One Hundred Percent Lunar Boy was translated into French and published in France by les Éditions Albin Michel (WIZ Collection) under the title "Quand on s'embrasse sur la Lune" [5] in 2012. It has also been translated into Japanese and will be published in Japan by Tokyo Sogensha in 2013. [6] A Russian translation will be available in 2013 from Azbooka-Atticus [7] This novel is currently under film option by Timur Bekmambetov's [8] production company Bazelevs. [9] In 1992, came out his first novel Flan published by Four Walls Eight Windows. In 2008 Flan was re-published by Running Press. Flan was widely reviewed and appraised by magazines and newspapers such as New York Press, Boston Phoenix Literary Section, Review of Contemporary Fiction, Option, the San Francisco Chronicle, and Les Inrockuptibles among others.

Painter

Stephen Tunney has exhibited widely in the United States as well as in Europe, France, Switzerland, England, Belgium and Spain. His artworks are primarily on two medium, canvas and paper, as well as on musical instruments such as guitars, cello, violin. His paintings and works on paper are either very colorful or black and white. They are very surreal, with many references to Renaissance masters as well modern cartoons and Japanese calligraphy.

His last show was in the : Kamarama Exhibition, Brugge Plus Group Show, Garemijn Hall (City Halls), Market Square, Brugge, Belgium, May–August 2012. Other artists included in this show were : David Bade, Fred Bervoetz, Capitaine Longchamps, Georges Condo, René Daniels, Wim Delvoye, Otto Dix, Marcel Duchamp, James Ensor, Max Ernst, Jan Fabre, J.J. Granville, George Groz, Kati Heck, Jeroen Henneman, Herr Seele, Paul Joostens, Kamagurka, Lucebert, Markus Lüpertz, René Magritte, Werner Mannaers, Muzo, Yves Obyn, Jeff Olsson, Francis Picabia, Pablo Picasso, Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes, Emile Salkin, Wim T. Schippers, Roland Topor, Luc Tuymas, Rinus Van de Velde, Don Van Vliet.

Other shows:

Permanent Collections: He has several pieces in the Confort Modern Permanent collection in Poitiers, France and in the Kamagurka's private collection in Brugges, Belgium. His artwork has been sold to private customers in France, and the United States.

Musician

Stephen Tunney is also a musician and a songwriter who under the name Dogbowl has released 12 albums in the United States, France and Belgium.

Numerous articles have been written about the music of Stephen Tunney aka Dogbowl, in magazines and newspapers such as Les Inrockuptibles (Paris, Feature article), The Village Voice (NYC), Le Matin (Brussels), Melody Maker (London), Philadelphia City Paper, L.A. Weekly, Liberation (Paris), Q Magazine (U.K.), MOFO (Brussels), VOX Magazine (U.K.), Event (U.K.), etc.

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