Maira Kalman was born in Tel Aviv
and moved to New York with her family at the age of four. She has worked as a
designer, author, illustrator and artist for more than thirty-five years. Her
work is a narrative journal of her life and all its absurdities. She has written
and illustrated fourteen children's books including Ooh-la-la-Max in Love,
What Pete Ate, and Swami on Rye. She often illustrates for The
New Yorker magazine, and is well known for her collaboration with Rick Meyerowitz
on the NewYorkistan cover in 2001. Recent projects include The Elements
of Style (illustrated), and a monthly on-line column entitled Principles
of Uncertainty (2006-07) and The Pursuit of Happiness (2008-09) for
The New York Times. During 2010-12 she authored or illustrated four books
including Michael Pollan’s Food Rules, and Daniel Handler’s Why We Broke
Up.
Maira Kalman has had five exhibitions at the Julie Saul Gallery since 2003. In 2010, The Institute of Contemporary Art organized a retrospective of Kalman's work, entitled Various Illuminations (of a Crazy World), which traveled to The Jewish Museum (New York, NY), the Skirball Cultural Center (Los Angeles, CA), the Contemporary Jewish Museum (San Francisco, CA), and the University of Pennsylvania.
She lives in New York and walks a lot.
Maira Kalman has had five exhibitions at the Julie Saul Gallery since 2003. In 2010, The Institute of Contemporary Art organized a retrospective of Kalman's work, entitled Various Illuminations (of a Crazy World), which traveled to The Jewish Museum (New York, NY), the Skirball Cultural Center (Los Angeles, CA), the Contemporary Jewish Museum (San Francisco, CA), and the University of Pennsylvania.
She lives in New York and walks a lot.
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