KURT ANKENY

Born 1976, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Lives/works, Salem, Massachusetts.

Contact

19 Harbor Street No. 5
Salem, MA 01970

(978) 631-6559

kurtankeny@gmail.com
www.kurtankeny.com

Education

1999
University of Wisconsin-Madison, BA

Comics/Zine Publication History

2019
Short Story “Between December and March” in Fantagraphics NOW anthology
Pleading with Stars via AdHouse Books
Summer with Cy, in A Cartoonist’s Diary, The Comics Journal online

2018
Monoculture: Portraits of Persons Unknown, self-published

2017
Prompt: On Your Marks #5, via Short Run Seattle

2016
In Pieces: Someplace Which I Call Home via 200 Zoo Press
”Mother Airplane” in Ink Brick, A Journal of Comics Poetry No. 5

2015
The Santoro School Handbook, via Frank Santoro

2014
Saltwater Snow, self-published
“E” Volume 1, self-published

Painting Exhibitions

2025
Joined Kingston Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
(Upcoming) Graphic Novelists Exhibit, Fort Point Arts Community Art Space, Boston, Massachusetts

2022
Artist in Residence, Tusinski Gallery, Rockport, Massachusetts.

2020
Kurt Ankeny Selected Works, High Street Studios, Ipswich, Massachusetts.

2017
East End Open Studios, Ipswich Moving Company, Ipswich, Massachusetts.

2016
East End Open Studios, Ipswich Moving Company, Ipswich, Massachusetts.

2015
Friends of the Gallery Show, Tusinski Gallery, Rockport, Massachusetts.
East End Open Studios, Ipswich Moving Company, Ipswich, Massachusetts.

2013
Cape Ann Artisans at 30, Cape Ann Art Museum, Gloucester, Massachusetts.

2012
Winter Salon, Flatfile Boston, Boston, Massachusetts.

2011
Art Now: Rockport, Rockport Lodge, Rockport, Massachusetts.
White Out, Tusinski Gallery, Rockport, Massachusetts.

2010
Art in Lanesville, Lanesville Community Center, Gloucester, Massachusetts.

2009
Kurt Ankeny/Paul Goldberg, The Art Room, Gloucester, Massachusetts.
Susie Fields/Kurt Ankeny, Sawyer Free Library, Gloucester, Massachusetts.
You Are Here, Flatrocks Gallery, Gloucester, Massachusetts.
Views of Gloucester Harbor, Flatrocks Gallery, Gloucester, Massachusetts.
Icons & Art: Michelle & Barack, J. Lucas Gallery, Provincetown, Massachusetts.

2008
Pia Juhl Nadel/Kurt Ankeny, Cove Gallery, Gloucester, Massachusetts.
Art in Lanesville, Lanesville Community Center, Gloucester, Massachusetts.

Awards/Recognition

2019
Pleading with Stars listed on The Comics Journal’s Best of 2019.

2018
PEN America Illustrated PEN, excerpt from In Pieces: Someplace Which I Call Home.

2017
Best American Comics, excerpt of In Pieces: Someplace Which I Call Home.
Invited to speak at the Parsons School of Design.
New England Book Show Award for In Pieces: Someplace Which I Call Home.

2016
Massachusetts Independent Comics Expo (MICE) Mini-Grant award.

2015
New England Book Show Award for Saltwater Snow.
Society of Illustrators MOCCA Arts Festival Award of Excellence.

2009
Pensioner with La Maison d’Artist de la Grande Vigne, Dinan, France.