Karin Z Sunvisson

Karin Z Sunvisson is a Stockholm-born graphic satirist with an M.A. from the French national school of applied arts (ÉNSAD) in Paris, today sharing her time between Sweden and Serbia. She publishes her images in traditional paper media mostly, and her work has been exhibited in over fifty countries. She also lectures and writes about satire and satire history. Karin Z Sunvisson was the 2019 year’s EWK Prize winner with the jury’s motivation:

“With an original and intriguing idea as a base she creates detailed and masterfully executed drawings. They give proof of a deep understanding of the power of images, their complexity and message. (…) Her motivation has continuously been to investigate and recount the conditions of satire as a visual arts genre and of the satirists as actors on the outermost point of the liberty of expression. Hence, she is an ambassador for the vital visual journalism of which EWK was once part.”

Karin Z Sunvisson is the project leader of Network for women graphic artists – graphic political satire and creative processes in collaboration with the Museum of Work and the Swedish Institute. The ambition is that the project ”will grow and develop internationally to become a strong global network where institutional and collegial support will act against exposedness and isolation, and push editors and other media actors to include, collaborate with and publish women graphic satirists”.