Anita Kunz
Anita Kunz was born in 1956 in Toronto, Canada. She was influenced by the illustration work of her uncle, Robert Kunz, who showed her that illustration had the potential to convey powerful social messages. Kunz graduated from the Ontario College of Art in 1978. Throughout her distinguished career, Kunz has contributed her work to magazines, design firms, book publishers, and advertising agencies in Germany, Japan, Sweden, Norway, Canada, South Africa, Holland, Portugal, France and England. Her clients include Time, Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, GQ, The New York Times, Sony Music, Random House Publishing, and many others. Kunz’s paintings and sculptures have been displayed in museums and galleries in the US, England, Italy, Japan, and other venues worldwide. In 2003, Kunz was the first woman and the first Canadian to have a solo show at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. Kunz has received numerous awards and honors, including being appointed Officer of the Order of Canada, Canada’s highest civilian honor, in 2009, and being inducted into the Hall of Fame by the Society of Illustrators’ Museum of National Illustration in 2017. She is the author of three books, including her most recent, Original Sisters: Portraits of Tenacity and Courage (2021).
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