Chris Ware
Chris Ware is a writer and artist. He has contributed graphic fiction and twenty-five covers to The New Yorker since 1999. He is the author of “Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth,” which won the Guardian First Book Award in 2001; “Building Stories,” which was chosen as a Top Ten fiction book by both the Times and Time in 2012; and “Rusty Brown,” which was named among the Times’ “100 Notable Books of 2019.” His work has been exhibited at the Hammer Museum, the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, as well as at the Adam Baumgold gallery, in New York, and the Galerie Martel, in Paris. In 2021, Ware received the Grand Prix de la Ville d’Angoulême, and, in 2022, he will exhibit his work at the Centre Pompidou.
