Leanne Shapton

Leanne Shapton ( born June 25, 1973 in Toronto, Ontario ) is a Canadian artist.

Life

Shaptons mother is from the Philippines and her father is Canadian. She works as a book illustrator title, publisher and author of a graphic novel.

She currently lives with her ​​fiance, the Englishman James Truman, in Greenwich Village in New York City and since 2009 works as an art director for the New York Times. Shapton published there counter - editorials (op -eds ). Previously, she worked for magazines such as Saturday Night and Maclean's and the National Post in Canada. It manages the publisher of nice equipped Books J & L Books, Atlanta Georgia, which she founded in 2001 with Jason Fulford.

For her book, Was She Pretty? she received the 2007 Canadian Dough Wright Award. For the film rights to Important Artefacts ... there is an option to make a film by the production company Plan B with Brad Pitt and Natalie Portman.

Her book Significant objects and personal possessions pieces from the collection of Leonore Doolan and Harold Morris, including books, fashion and jewelery. is presented as an auction catalog. A fictional auction house to cover around 300 objects and describes them; they document the course of about four years of relationship between Lenore and Harold.

The autobiographical book Swimming reflection studies from 2012, which brought out pull in the same year under the title tracks of the Suhrkamp Verlag, examines the youth Shaptons as oriented to Olympic qualifying championships competitive swimmer from many angles. Characterised by ambition and discipline full-time project meant that they are 18 -year-old fully retired as of the career as a competitive athlete. Nevertheless, the biographical form had still the result that they devoted attention to local swimming pools in almost every trip, she holds a drawing for themselves.

Works

• Sunday Night Movies. Drawn & Quarterly, Montreal, Canada, 2013, ISBN 978-1-770461277.
• Swimming studies. Blue Rider Press, New York, 2012. ISBN 978-0-399158179 German: tracks pull from the American / Canadian / English by Sophie Zeitz, Suhrkamp Verlag, Berlin, 2012, 328 pp. ISBN 978-3-518-46402-1.

• German: Significant objects and personal possessions pieces from the collection of Leonore Doolan and Harold Morris, including books, fashion and jewelery. translated by Rebecca Casati, Berlin Verlag, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-8270-0901-2.

Graphics for books

• Diary: Chuck Palahniuk, Novel, Doubleday, New York 2003 ISBN 0-385-50947-2 ( book cover )

Exhibition

• Leanne Shapton, art room Murkudis, Berlin from January 24 to February 6, 2010