Stanley Wany

THE ARTIST

Stanley Wany is a multidisciplinary artist whose main focus is writing and drawing graphic novels. His practice also includes experimentation in painting, pen and ink, as well as digital collage. In 2016, his first graphic novel, Agalma, received nominations for the Doug Wright Award (Toronto Comics and Arts Festival) for best alternative comic, and for a Prix Expozine (Expozine, independent editors’ festival in Montreal). The same year, he was invited to join the Quebecois delegation at the Festival de bande dessinée de Colomiers, in France. Past trips include the Helsinki Comics Festival and the Festival de bande dessinée d’Angoulême, and in 2017 he participated an exhibition on journalism in graphic novels at Amadora BD: International Comics Festival in Portugal. He spent a month at the Arteles Creative Centre as an artist in residence in May 2018 and in the latter part the same year, he was awarded a creation grant from the Canada Council for the Arts for the production of his next graphic novel.

STATEMENT & CV

Previously collected work

  • Corporate Hell, SOLD

  • We Wanna Dance with Somebody, SOLD

  • Velvet Cake, SOLD

  • Little Miss Strange, SOLD