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born Brooklyn, New York 1954

EDUCATION

1977 B.F.A. Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI.
1998 Honorary Doctorate, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2006 Theories of Everything, Julie Saul Gallery, New York, NY

2004 Season's Greetings, Julie Saul Gallery, New York, NY

2003 Silvermine Gallery, New Canaan, CT

1996 Strange Matter, The New York Academy of Sciences, New York, NY

1995 Cartoons and Children's book illustrations: Every Picture Tells a Story, LA

1991 Cartoons by Roz Chast, The Illustration Gallery, New York, NY

1989 Cartoons by Roz Chast, The Illustration Gallery, New York, NY

1984 Kathryn Markel Fine Arts, New York, NY

1982 Kathryn Markel Fine Arts, New York, NY

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2009 Windows and Mirrors, Julie Saul Gallery, New York, NY

2006 Telling Tales, Contemporary Women Cartoonists, Adam Goldbaum Gallery, New York, NY

1997
Cats & Dogs, Storyopolis Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
A Portfolio of Smiles, New Canaan Library, New Canaan, CT
The Illustration Gallery at the Gramercy International Art Fair, New York, NY
Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CT

1996 The New Yorker Cartoonists, Storyopolis Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

1995 The Art of the New Yorker, Munich, Germany

1994 New Yorker Cartoons & Covers, The Heinemann Gallery, New York, NY

1993
The New Yorker Even, The Illustration Gallery, New York, NY
The Cartoon Bank, Hastings-on-Hudson, NY

1991
The Artist's Palate, The Illustration Gallery, New York, NY
Erotica, The Illustration Gallery, New York, NY

1990
The Illustrated Dog, The Illustration Gallery, New York, NY
To Hell with Illustration!, The Illustration Gallery, New York, NY

1989 The Art of the Baseball Card, The Gallery at the Municipal Building, Hastings-on-Hudson, NY

1988 Benefit group show, Municipal Art Society of New York, New York, NY

1987
For Laughter's Sake, Artspace, New Haven, CT
Cartoonists Association Group Show, Master Eagle Gallery, New York, NY

1986 The Art of The New Yorker, Barbara Nicholls Gallery, New York, NY

1985 Artist's Books, Kathryn Markel Fine Arts, New York, NY

1984
New Yorker Artists, The Foundry Gallery, Washington, DC
Cartoonists Association Group Show, Master Eagle Gallery, New York, NY

PUBLICATIONS AND REVIEWS

Landi, Ann, "Roz Chast" Artnews, February 2007

Genocchio, Benjamin, "Roz Chast" The New York Times, Jan. 26, 2007

Guzman, Isaac, "True New Yorker" The New York Post December 24, 2006

Kakutani, Michiko, "Anxiety Illustrated" The New York Times December 5, 2006

Green, Penelope, "For a Professional Phobic, The Scariest Night of All" The New York Tmes, Oct. 26, 2006

The New Yorker, Dec. 13, 2004

Kino, Carol, "The Droll Cartoonist With a Grade-A Obsession" The New York Times, Nov. 26, 2004

McKinley, Jesse, "Another Cartoon Canvas Of Neurotic New York" The New York Times May 13, 2004

Chast, Roz, The Party, After You Left. New York: Bloomsburg, 2004

Chast, Roz, Weird and Wonderful Words. Oxford University Press, 2004

Chast, Roz, Rationalizations To Live By. Workman, 2002

Chast, Roz, The Joy of Being Fifty Plus.Workman, 2001

Marx, Patricia, Meet My Staff . HarperCollins, 1998

Chast, Roz, Childproof. Hyperion, 1997

Marx, Patricia and Martin, Jane Read, Now I Will Never Leave the Dinner Table. HarperCollins, 1996

Efron, Marshall, and Olsen, Alpha- Berry, Gabby the Shrew. Random House, 1994

Marx, Patricia and Martin, Jane Read, Now Everybody Really Hates Me. HarperCollins, 1993

Chast, Roz, The Joy of Being Single. Workman, 1992

Chast, Roz, Proof of Life of Earth. HarperCollins, 1991

Chast, Roz, The Class of '89 (desktop calender). HarperCollins, 1989

Chast, Roz, The Four Elements. HarperCollins, 1988

Chast, Roz, Mondo Boxo. Harper & Row, 1987

Chast, Roz, Parallel Universes. Harper & Row, 1984

Chast, Roz, Unscientific Americans. The Dial Press, 1982

Chast, Roz, Last Resorts. Ink, Inc., 1979

GRANTS, RESIDENCIES AND AWARDS


2004 MOCCA Art Festival Award, Museum of Cartoon and Comic Art (MOCCA)
2003 Brooklyn Public Library Foundation Honoree
1998 Honorary Doctorate, Pratt Institute

LECTURES AND SEMINARS

2006 NYer Festival, Converstation with Steve Martin

2004 Talk; Smithsonian Institute, Washington D.C.

2003
Cartoon discussion led by Jules Feiffer with Gary Trudeau and others; New York Historical Society, New York, NY
Gail Silver Memorial Lecture; Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
Talk, Coyle Scholar, Greens Farms Academy, Greens Farms, CT
Talk; Lotos Club, New York, NY

1998 Discussion with editor, Rich Kot; Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY

1997 Talk and demonstration with Ed Koren; Christie's New York, NY

1994 City Arts and Lectures Discussion with Anne Lamott; Herbst Theatre, San Francisco, CA

1993 "Art of The New Yorker" Panel with Lee Lorenz and Gahan Wilson Cheltenham Literary Festival, Cheltenham, England

1992 "The Writer's Voice" with Lee Lorenz, Mischa Richter, and Ed Koren; West Side Y, New York, NY

1988 Steven Guarnaccia's "Satiric Drawing" class; Parsons School of Design, New York, NY

1986 "The Writer's Voice" with Lee Lorenz and George Booth; West side Y New York, NY

1985-1987 Mort Gerberg's cartooning class :Parsons School of Design, New York, NY

CARTOONS

Allure
Applause
Army Man
Channels
Child
Double Take
Elle
Elle Décor
Entertainment Weekly
Fast Company
Harvard Business
Horticulture
House & Garden
In Health
Mirabella
Mother Jones
National Lampoon
New Woman
Psychology Today
Redbook
Review
Savvy
Scientific American
Strategy & Business
The New Yorker
The Paris Review
The Sciences
Time
Town & Country
Utne Reader
Worth

EDITORIAL ILLUSTRATIONS

Art & Antiques
Bon Appetit
Business Week
Child
Food & Wine
Fortune
GQ
Mademoiselle
Ms.
My Generation ( Publ.by Modern Maturity)
Opera News
Publishers Weekly
Self
Seventeen
The Atlantic
Town & Country
Vogue
Working Woman

BOOKS CONTRIBUTED TO:

The New Yorker Book of Kid Cartoons (2002)
Bringing up Baby: edited by Pam Sommers (Chronicle books, 1996)
E-Mail This Book! (The Cartoon Bank)
The New Yorker Book of Cat Cartoons
The New Yorker Book of Dog Cartoons
The New Yorker Book of Doctors Cartoons
Recipes for Disaster: edited by Pam Sommers (Chronicle Books, 1993)
Dogs, Dogs, Dogs: edited Sam Gross (Harper & Row)
Cats, Cats, Cats: edited by Sam Gross (Harper & Row)
Books, Books, Books: edited by Sam Gross and Jim Charlton (Harper & Row)
Moms, Moms, Moms: edited by Sam Gross (Harper & Row)
Why Are Your Papers in Order?: Edited by Sam Gross (Avon Books)



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