About
Chris von Szombathy is a visual & auditory artist/producer, designer and writer residing in Vancouver, Canada. His work deals with modern social, visual and economic culture, with a focus on referencing pop culture products, advertising, character design and sound. His artistic background is within abstract forms of painting, communicative graphics/logos and conceptual art and is also strongly influenced and informed by his 15 year struggle with acute agoraphobia. He would ideally like his work to be easier to see than to not see and is currently working on his brush technique and bird-watching when possible.
He is the serving musical director/producer for the groups Audio Ahdeo Awdio, Tour de Fours and Hard Times and is published by celebrated arts & graphic publisher Drawn & Quarterly (solo editions: "Fire Away", published in 2007, and "A Fool?s Gold", forthcoming this year).
His work has been shown in galleries within Vancouver, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Edinburgh and has appeared in volumes published by Tiny Vices and Anteism as well as within various magazine publications. His music has appeared globally on podcasts, internet radio and standard radio as well as on television and within digital applications. He has been featured in national and local publications, on television and on the web with the likes of CBC R3 and FecalFace.
He has been nominated for a Western Canadian Music Award and a Pigskin Peters Award (presented by the Doug Wright Society). 2010 will see the release of his next book with Drawn & Quarterly called "A Fool?s Gold" as well as new albums from both AAA & TDF.
Please contact him at:
hello[at]chrisvonszombathy[dot]com