Artist Literature Please visit The New Yorker to read Mark Singer's article, Ed Koren Arrives, commemorating 50 years of Koren cartoons appearing in the publication Please visit Seven Days for Pamela Polston's coverage of Koren's June 2011 exhibition at the Fleming Art Museum in Burlington, VT Please visit The New York Times for Ken Johnson's review of Koren's April 2010 exhibitions at Luise Ross Gallery and The Wallach Gallery at Columbia University The denizens of the worlds Edward Koren prolifically creates are so constantly evolving in his drawings that they are truly unique and unforgettable. He bestows human traits and attitudes on his animals, and his humans are frequently hirsute—sometimes very! —and almost always endowed with noses that qualify to be called proboscises. Fantastical creatures abound, seemingly prehistoric and unimaginable to us, but are the sole creations of Koren’s artistic invention. And he places all these characters, his actors, so easily and precisely in the context of the human condition—usually the quotidian, sometimes the profound--that we recognize them as our neighbors, friends, relatives and, indeed, ourselves. In that flash of recognition, we get it. And the “It” makes us smile.

Education 1957 Columbia University, BA 1964 Pratt Institute, MFA painting and printmaking Awards and Fellowships 1958 Woolley Fellowship, Fondation des Etats-Unis, Paris 1972 Golden Plaque at the Biennale of Illustration, Bratislava, Czechoslovakia for Behind the Wheel 1973 Prix d’Honneur of the Societe Protectrice de l’Humour, Avignon, France for his contribution to the art of the cartoon 1970-71 John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship 2003 Distinguished Visitor at the American Academy in Berlin 1984 Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters, Union College 2007 State of Vermont Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts Solo Exhibitions 1970 Bristol, RI; Bristol Museum 1975, 76, 79, 91 New York, NY; Terry Dintenfass Gallery 1982 Albany, NY; Travelling exhibition originating at SUNY, Albany 2001 Katonah, NY; Katonah Museum of Art 2006 Middlebury, VT; Middlebury College Museum of Art 2010 New York, NY; Luise Ross Gallery, Parallel Play – Drawings 1979 – 2010, 27 April – 2 June 2010 New York, NY; Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, The Capricious Line, 28 April – 12 June 2010 Group Exhibitions 1973 Avignon, France; Exposition Dessins d’Humeur Bratislava, Czech Republic; Biennale of Illustration New York, NY; The Grolier Club 1973, 2004 New York, NY; Art from the New York Times Society of Illustrators 1988 Philadelphia, PA; Philadelphia Art Alliance 1998 Ridgefield, CT; Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, 11 From the New Yorker 1992, 94, 99, 2000, 02 Tiverton, RI; Virginia Lynch Gallery 2004 Washington, CT; Washington Art Association, with Hugh Townley 2007-08 New York, NY; Gallery Met, Hansel and Gretel, Metropolitan Opera 2008 Rochester, VT; Big Town Gallery, A Fine Line 2010 New York, NY; Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art 2011 Boston, MA; Sherman Gallery at Boston University, Fresh Flowers 2013 The Metro Show Luise Ross Gallery booth, New York, NY Public Collections Fogg Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA Princeton University Museum, Princeton, NJ Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, RI Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge University, Cambridge, England Library of Congress, Swann Collection of Caricature and Cartoon, Washington D.C. Edward Koren has been a cartoonist for The New Yorker since 1962.