Mark Ulriksen: New Yorker illustrator
September 1- October 1, 2022
Studio Kroner welcomed San Francisco-based artist and illustrator Mark Ulriksen, one of the most prolific contemporary cover artists for The New Yorker magazine, with 70 covers and nearly 200 interior illustrations spanning over 20 years.
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Opening Reception
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Artist Talk
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Closing Reception
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Bios
Bio
Mark’s illustrations have appeared in most of America’s leading newspapers and magazines, including the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Time, Newsweek, Rolling Stone, Atlantic Monthly, GQ, Esquire, etc. Mark also wrote and illustrated a book about his love for mankind’s best friend, “Dogs Rule Nonchalantly.” His illustration and graphic design work has been recognized for over 30 years in competitions such as Communication Arts, The Society of Publication Designers, American Illustration, and The Society of Illustrators where he has won three gold and three silver medals. His paintings have been exhibited in London, Paris, Rome, and Kyoto.
Artist Statement
From Dogs to Sports
Mark’s varied interests are often the subjects of his paintings, be they politics or dogs, people or sports. He covered the 2008 Masters and 2015 British Open for Golf Digest and has multiple football murals of the Chicago Bears in Soldier Field stadium. Kaiser Permanente hospitals throughout the San Francisco Bay Area exhibit his dog prints. He has been the regular illustrator for SFJAZZ and the recipient of numerous awards, including multiple Gold and Silver medals from the Society of Illustrators. Ulriksen’s work is in the permanent collection of The Smithsonian and the Library of Congress.
Mark Ulriksen: New Yorker illustrator
February 26-28, 2026
Studio Kroner welcomed San Francisco-based artist and illustrator Mark Ulriksen, one of the most prolific contemporary cover artists for The New Yorker magazine, with 70 covers and nearly 200 interior illustrations spanning over 20 years.
Click to watch the Artist Talk >
Opening
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Artist Talk
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Closing
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Bios
Bio
Mark’s illustrations have appeared in most of America’s leading newspapers and magazines, including the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Time, Newsweek, Rolling Stone, Atlantic Monthly, GQ, Esquire, etc. Mark also wrote and illustrated a book about his love for mankind’s best friend, “Dogs Rule Nonchalantly.” His illustration and graphic design work has been recognized for over 30 years in competitions such as Communication Arts, The Society of Publication Designers, American Illustration, and The Society of Illustrators where he has won three gold and three silver medals. His paintings have been exhibited in London, Paris, Rome, and Kyoto.
Steve Kroeger
Steve Kroeger, a special educator and action researcher for thirty years, uses his current research to focus on supporting voice. Steve is involved in national and international projects including the Palestinian West Bank, and Ireland. While teaching, graphic narrative emerged as a powerful medium of expression. Since the last election, volunteering in a food pantry doing Spanish translation stirred thinking about abundance and scarcity of food. Comics helps tell the stories of people who are doing the amazing work of collecting, growing, cooking, distributing, educating, and serving in our regional Food Shed.
Karen Boyhen
Through illustration and graphic design, Karen Boyhen helps people communicate with their customers with a delightful and relatable approach. Her portfolio includes editorial illustration, illustrated maps, merchandise, brochures, posters, and annual reports for non-profit, education, and healthcare companies. In the studio at Visionaries + Voices, she facilitates artwork and builds relationships. Last summer she led a project entitled “Tiny Cincinnati” with the community while on artist residency through the Contemporary Arts Center. Karen is focused on making art and building creative partnerships.
Scott Hand
Scott Hand is the Chief Brand Officer at Urban Artifact, Principal Architect with Trilobite Design, and Station Manager for Radio Artifact. A licensed architect specializing in acoustics and sustainability, Scott spent years mastering how physical structures sound and feel. Today, he translates that rigorous design philosophy into the visual realm. He approaches brand development with an architect's eye, treating every illustration as a foundational block of a larger narrative. Scott’s goal is to build an internal world for folks: one that offers a rich, immersive experience and rewards curiosity with intentional whimsy.
Amaha Sellassie
Amaha Sellassie is a afrofuturist, peace builder, social healer, freedom fighter, network weaver, student of cooperation and lover of humanity. He’s an Associate Professor of Sociology at Sinclair Community College in Dayton Ohio. amaha is a practitioner scholar and participatory action researcher dedicated towards building bridges of trust, healing historical wounds, and harnessing the unique gifts and talents of every human being as we press towards a just and equitable society. His areas of interest include health and education equity, praxis, cooperative economic development, dismantling structural violence and getting the voice of marginalized communities into the center of public policy in order to emerge structures of belonging that acknowledge the dignity and worth of every human being. He is co-founder and board chair of the Gem City Market, a community driven effort to address food apartheid through a food coop dedicated to increasing access to fresh fruits and vegetables within west Dayton.
